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Music History exam 2
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Undergraduate 3
10/28/2009

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Contenance angloise
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English quality of many 3rds and 6ths. Sweet-sounding.
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Renaissance
Definition
Period of art, cultural, and music history between the middles ages and baroque period, marked by humanism, a revival of ancient culture and ideas, and a new focus on the individual
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Faburden
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A 4th above the middle voice, and a 5th below it. Moves in parallel 3rds.
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Fauxbourdon
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Two voices moving in parallel 6ths and 8ths. Third voice is written a 4th below that.
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Mass cycle
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Cycle of polyphonic settings (kyrie, gloria, sanctus, etc)
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Cantus Firmus
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Fixed melody. Pre-existing chant put in tenor.
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Cantus Firmus-Mass
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Polyphonic settings of ordinary using one consistent melody throughout. Takes on a section of text.
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Point of imitiation
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Exactly the same phrase being imitated in all four voices.
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Paired imitiation
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2 duets that do not overlap
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Imitative texture
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Point of imitation and paired imitation together.
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Homophonic texture
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All voices move together as one in mostly the same rhythm
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Polyphonic texture
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Two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody
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Chorale
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Strophic hymn in Lutheran tradition, intended to be sung by the congregation
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Metrical psalm
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Metric, rhymed, strophic translations of psalms in the vernacular that were set to newly composed melodies or tunes adapted to chant.
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Anthem (full vs. verse)
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Full anthem is for unaccompanied choir in contrapuntal style. Verse employs 1 or more solo voices with organ or viol accompaniment, alternating between choir and instrumental parts.
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Post-Josquin generation
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5-6 voices were used more commmonly, chant melodies were treated more freely, and text was treated carefully
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Madrigalism
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Particularly evocative, or if used in a disparaging sense, thoroughly conventional instance if text depiction or word painting. One stanza of poetry with no repetition or refrain.
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Musique mesuree
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French style of text in chansons where stressed syllables get longer notes than unstressed
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Haut vs. Bas Instruments
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Loud vs. Soft. Loud= trumpet, shawm, sackbut. Soft = viola da gamba
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Consort vs. broken consort
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Ensemble with a family of instruments. Broken = differing instruments
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Cori spezzati
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Specific to church, usually refers to a divided choir which alternates antiphonally.
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