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Music History I
Medieval
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Music
Graduate
08/17/2010

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trouvere
Definition
aristocratic composer-poet of northern France
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hocket
Definition
melody is divided into fragments and shared among voices
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rota
Definition
canon at the unison with independent lines
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cornett
Definition
wooden instrument with fingerholes & brass-type mouthpiece
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clausulae
Definition
polyphonic sections of chant that were sung in discant-style
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Minnesinger
Definition
German equivalent to troubadours and trouveres
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shawm
Definition
double-reed instrument, similar to the oboe
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chansonnier
Definition
songbook collections of troubadour and trouvere polyphony
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rondellus
Definition
voice exchange
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troubadour
Definition
aristocratic composer-poet of southern France
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Ars cantus mensurabilis
Definition
Franco of Cologne's treatise on notation and theory
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cantiga
Definition
monophonic song of Spain in honor of the Virgin Mary
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Ars Nova
Definition
de Vitry's treatise outlining 14th c. compositional techniques
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discant-style
Definition
polyphony in which voices move at essentially the same speed
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carole
Definition
a medieval circle dance or the song that accompanies it
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motet
Definition
polyphonic work with texts in Latin/French above a cantus firmus
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goliard
Definition
wandering scholar/poets who created satirical secular songs
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caudae
Definition
melismatic passage at beginning and at cadences in conductus
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hurdy-gurdy
Definition
stringed instrument with drone and rotating wheel turned by crank
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Ad organum faciendum
Definition
treatise outlining rules for improvising/composing free organum
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La Messe de Nostre Dame
Definition
was the treatise that the Notre Dame School came up with for notation
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florid organum
Definition
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