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Musc1100
VSU- Steven Taylor
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Music
Undergraduate 1
02/21/2008

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When were the dark ages of the Medieval era?
Definition
500 AD to 1000 AD
Term
What progress was made in the Middle Ages?
Definition
Mechanical Mills
Clocks
Rise of Trade Guilds (Bourgeoisie)
Gradual decline of Feudalism
Music Notation
Term
What were the dominant forces during the Medieval era?
Definition
The Church and Feudalism
Term
What is the church's role during the Medieval era?
Definition
an important role in art and preserving knowledge of the ancient world.
Term
What are the musical settings of worship?
Definition
Mass
Proper
Ordinary
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
Term
What is a Chant?
Definition
Monophonic, rhythmically free, usually religious
Term
What were the music notations developed in the church?
Definition
neumes and staff
Term
Who was Guide of Arrezo?
Definition
first music theorist in the Middle Ages to discuss music notation on a staff - Invented solfeggio (do re mi)
Term
What is an organum?
Definition
Grows from chant, earliest form of polyphony, use of perfect intervals, Hocet
Term
Conductus
Definition
Rhythmic, secular based text
Term
Motet
Definition
Polyphonic, based on a cantus firmus, addition of secular text
Term
What are Troubadours (minstrels)?
Definition
Itinerant (on the road) medieval musicians who sing about chivalry, Courtly Love
Term
Ars Nova
Definition
(The New Art) 14th cen period of musical complexity.
Term
Chanson
Definition
A song.
Term
Who was Guillaume de Machaut?
Definition
Dominant composer of the ars nova.
Term
Who was Philippe de Vitry?
Definition
medieval composer, theoretician, who created the term "Ars Nova"
Term
Formes Fixes
Definition
fixed forms that set the template for medival songs
Term
What are three characteristics of the Renaissance era?
Definition
The golden age of "a cappella" singing
Imitation and polyphonic texture the norm
Gradual increased importance of purely instrumental and secular music
Term
Reformation/Counter-Reformation
Definition
moving toward less complexity, more understandable church music. Renassance
Term
Chorale
Definition
championed by Martin Luther, perfected by Bach Renaissance
Term
Madrigal
Definition
Polphonic, 3 or 4 voice, set to secular poetry Renaissance
Term
Whole Consort
Definition
the complete family of instrument
Term
Broken Consort
Definition
An ensemble of full range of mixed instruments
Term
What types of chants are there?
Definition
Gregorian, Melismatic, Syllabi
Term
Motetus
Definition
lines added to the cantus firmus in a motet
Term
Ars Antiqua
Definition
Old Art
Term
What are the types of Formes fixes?
Definition
ballade, virelai, rondeau.
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