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M541 Exam One Vocabulary
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Graduate
09/23/2009

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Ad organum faciendum

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Anonymous treatise (ca. 1100), which describes how to sing or compose organum.

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Aquitanian polyphony

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  • Ornate style of polyphony
  • Includes settings of chants (i.e. sequences, Benedicamus Domino melodies, and solo portions of responsorial chants)
  • Contained two styles: Discant and florid
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Ars Subtilior

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Style of polyphony from the late-1300s in southern France and northern Italy, distinguished by extreme complexity in rhythm and notation.

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Ars nova

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  • 1300 - France
  • style of polyphony
  • new system of rhythmic notation that allowed duple or triple division of note values, syncopation, flexibility
  • associate with: Philippe de Vitry

 

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Boethius

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  • ca. 500; Roman philosopher
  • translated quadrivium (liberal arts: arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy)
  • authored De institutione musica libri quinque
    • 1. Musica mundana — music of the spheres/world
      2. Musica humana — harmony of human body and spiritual harmony
      3. Musica instrumentalis — instrumental music (incl. human voice)
      4. Musica divina — music of the gods
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Charlemagne

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  • 768-814; Holy Roman Emperor
  • father Pepin sought to impose a common liturgy and body of music to consolidate his kindgom - son Charlemagne continued policy of having singers from Rome import chant to northern territories (modern-day France, Belgium, the Netherlands, western Germany, Switzerland, and northern Italy)
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Church Calendar

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  • dates throughout the year, which are chosen to commemorate saints and feasts
  • i.e. Christmas, Easter (Advent, Lent)
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Francesco Landini
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  • Italian composer; 1325-1397
  • leading composer of ballata
  • mixture of Italian and French taste and technique
  • composed only secular music
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Franconian (mensural) notation

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  • new system from Ars cantus mensurabilis; c.1280
  • Franco of Cologne

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Gregorian chant
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Guido of Arezzo
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Guillaume de Machaut
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Hildegard of Bingen
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Liber usualis
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Liberal Arts
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Léonin
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Magnus liber organi
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Minnelieder
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Musica enchiriadis
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Notre Dame polyphony
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Office
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Petronian motet
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Proper & Ordinary of the Mass
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Pérotin
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The eight church modes
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Trecento
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antiphon
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clausula (pl. clausulae)
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courtly love
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ethos/doctrine of imitation
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formes fixes
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heighted neumes
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isorhythmic motet
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jubilus
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liturgy
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madrigal (XIV Century)
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mode, time, prolation
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musica mundana, musica humana, musica instrumentalis
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organum
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organum duplum
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perfection
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polyphonic conductus
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principal voice, organal voice
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psalms
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rhythmic modes
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superius
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syllabic, neumatic, melismatic
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trope
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troubadour
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trouvère
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