Shared Flashcard Set

Details

The Renaissance
Chapter 6
8
Music
Undergraduate 2
02/06/2010

Additional Music Flashcards

 


 

Cards

Term
Paraphrase
Definition
the modification and decoration of plainchant melodies in early Renaissance music
embellishing chants with extra notes, setting them in graceful rhythms, smoothing out passages
Term
chanson
Definition
french for song, a genre of french secular music
Term
Declamation
Definition
Words being sung to the rhythms and melodies that approximated normal speech
Term
Word painting
Definition
matching the music to the meaning of the word
Term
Motet
Definition
usually a a sacred vocal composition. early motets were based on fragments of gregorian chants
Term
Madrigal
Definition
Short composition set to one-stanza poem
main secular vocal genre of the Renaissance
Term
Comparison to M.A.
Definition
new way of treating plainchant in polyphonic compositions

a relaxed attitude toward medieval authority
Term
The high renaissance style
Definition
blend of two kinds of musical texture, imitative counterpoint and homophony
Supporting users have an ad free experience!