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Music Test 2
MIddle ages, Renaissance Period, Baroque Period & Opera
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Music
Undergraduate 1
02/16/2012

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Importance of the Catholic Church
Definition
-only source of church
-divine office (everyday worship)
-mass (worship service)
-Patronage service (church number one)
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Pope Gregory
Definition
-credited for having system of music for church organization anc chant notation
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Characteristics of Gregorian Chant
Definition
-plainsong, plain chant
-sung both in mass and divine office
-monophony
-sung in Latin
-flexible rhythm and tempo w/o meter
-unmeasured, free flowing rhythm
-no major/minorkey system
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proper mass
Definition
text is changed according to church
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orginary mass
Definition
Kyrie-Gloria-Credo-Sanctus
Agnuus Dei
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Liturgy of Music
Definition
music in literature of Catholic Church service
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Two kinds of mass
Definition
proper mass and orginary mass
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melisma (melismatic)
Definition
a series of notes are assigned to one syllable of text
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syllabic
Definition
one note for each syllable
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what was the early polyphonic texture
Definition
organum
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organum
Definition
drone-like held chant melody in bottom voice, added line to top movign with shorter note
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Hildegard of Bingen
Definition
-best known female composer
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characteristics of Secular Music
Definition
-played by improvisation, and passed by oral tradition
-non-religious music, using vernacular
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Vernacular
Definition
everyday language of a particular region
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Troubadors
Definition
poet-musicians
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Minstrel
Definition
started out as traveling musician/entertainers/typically instrumentalists attached to a court
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status of woman in the middle ages
Definition
not allowed to participate in services, but active in convent
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general characteristics of Renaissance Music
Definition
-'known' composers, credit
-concept of composition
-vocal music was more important than instrumental music
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Josquin des Prez
Definition
-the most influential figure
-composed both sacred and secular music
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characteristics of Renaissance vocal music
Definition
-music-making in home--aristocratic entertainment, for amateur performance
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Cantus firmus
Definition
music based on Gregonian chant melodies
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Imitation
Definition
when one voice is presented and hten restated immediately by another voice
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Counterpoint
Definition
-note against note
-the compositional procedure, pratice of combining melodically independent parts
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contrapuntal style
Definition
polyphonic texture
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a cappella
Definition
singing without instruments
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Martin Luther
Definition
-father of both reformation and protestant congregational singing
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strophic form
Definition
musical form in which multiple stanzas of text are set to the same melody
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Lutheran Chorale
Definition
-a hymn designed for congregational singing
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characteristics of madrigal
Definition
-a peice for multiple voice parts set to secular poem
-sung in vernacular
composed in th 16th and early 17th century
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word painting
Definition
musical representation of specific poetic images, often found in Renaissance and Baroque music, stragedy used to highlight meaning in text
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Renaissance instrumental music
Definition
-indended for dancing, mostly improvisded
Term
Lute
Definition
the most popular instrument, transcribed from vocal or dance music
Term
Aure
Definition
solo vocal songs with lute accompaniment
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general characteristics of Baroque music
Definition
-representation of clear emotion states, drastic changes of mood
-sudden changes in dynamic level, no gradual change
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continuity of rhythm
Definition
beat is far more emphasized and steady tempo
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monody
Definition
-one melody
-mono+melody+instr. music
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Claudio Monteverdi
Definition
-composed madrigal and operas
-the 1st composer of opera production
-introduced opera as a major art form
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Henry Purcell
Definition
-first English composer of his day
-served as an organist of Westminster Abbey
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castrato
Definition
male singer whose role is woman on stage
Term
opera
Definition
major innovation in muscial genre, involves music, acting, poetry, dance, and costume
Term
recitative
Definition
combination of singing and speech, flexible rhythm following inflection of the text
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aria
Definition
accompanied lyrical style singing, melodic and expressive
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libretto
Definition
the text to be sung in an opera
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chorus
Definition
group of singers, homophonic texture to understand words, less text to emphasize certian mood or work
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