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Music Appreciation EXAM 2
Music History
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Music
Undergraduate 2
10/21/2011

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Guido D’Arezzo
Definition
Considered the father of modern staff notation used melismatic lyrics
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Hildegard de Bingen
Definition
Founded a convent Renaissance woman
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melismatic
Definition
holding one syllable for many notes
(contrasts with syllabic)
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Organum
Definition
Early polyphony of the Western
Church (9th-13th centuries)
Two, three, or four-part counterpoint and only performed by soloists
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Guillame de Machuat
Definition
Poet, composer, courtier, cleric
made Secular songs for court entertainment and Sacred music for cathedral at Reims
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music at the court
Definition
Secular music inappropriate or forbidden in church and had Instruments (contrasts the only organ and voices. Women, and performers
from all social classes allowed in church)
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