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Music History 1
Exam 2 Types of Songs
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Music
Undergraduate 3
03/11/2007

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English carol
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English song, usually on a religious subject, with several stanzas and a refrain, mostly polyphonic, has simple 2-3 part harmony, text in English or Latin, similar to folk music
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Chanson
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Secular song with French words; used especially for polyphonic songs of the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries
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Frottola
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Sixteenth-century genre of Italian polyphonic song in mock-popular style, typically syllabic, homophonic, and diatonic, with the melody in the upper voice and marked rhythmic patterns
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Lauda
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Latin "to praise," Italian devotional song based on sacred piece
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Italian Madrigal
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Sixteenth-century Italian poem having any number of lines, each of seven or eleven syllables Through composed (no repeated sections), Word painting, generally romantic *homophonic contrapunal textures. *2000 collections written in 70 years
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Lute Songs
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Also known as ayres, *Solo songs with lute accompaniment were popular in the early 1600s and were more intimate in nature than the madrigal *Leading composers included John Dowland and Thomas Campion *More personal than madrigal, as well as less word painting *The lute is always subordinate to the melody. *The lute part is written in tablature
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Villancico
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*Spanish song, polyphonic, Rustic pastoral setting, represented native Spanish Music,short, strophic, homophonic, syllabic *The name of the genre is derived from the word for peasant *Intended for the elite class, the texts were rustic and popular in style. *The music was short, strophic, syllabic, and mostly homophonic, in reaction to the Franco-Flemish style.
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Lutheran Chorale
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*very simple and metrical verse written in native tongue. Some melodies were preexisting chants; some popular secular tunes. Polyphonic setting around the cantus firmus. The goal was for more people to be able to sing and perform devotional music. *Adapted Psalter melodies for their own services.
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Psalm Tunes
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Calvinist, monophonic tunes. Only music allowed in church. Polyphonic psalm settings *For devotional use at home, polyphony was allowed. *Many had four or more parts, with the tune in the soprano or tenor. *Settings were often in chordal style, but some had more elaborate motet-like arrangements.
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Mensuration Canon
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derived more than one voice from a single line of notated music, as when several voices sing the same melody, entering at certain intervals of time or singing at different speeds simultaneously.
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Anthem
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Anglican church sacred son
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Renaissance Motet
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*Secular based motet, more broad in basis on other parts of music.
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