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Music History II
Ch. 7-13
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Music
Undergraduate 4
10/26/2010

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villancico
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Type of polyphonic song in spanish, with several stanzas framed by a refrain. originally secular, later sacred.
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frottola
Definition
16th century genre of italian polyphony, typically syllabic, homophonic, and diatonic. Melody in the upper voice and marked rhythmic patterns
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Italian Madrigal
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Composers emphasized the meaning and impact of the text through musical setting. pg 244 for more info
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Petrarch
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Inspirational poet for many of the musicians, poets, and readers of the 15th and 16th centuries.
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musique mesuree
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Late 16th century french style of tect setting; especially in chansons, in which stressed syllables are given longer notes that unstressed syllables.
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meistersinger
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German ameteur singer and poet-composer of the 14th through the 17th century who was a member if the guild that cultivated a style of monophonic song derived from the minnelieder
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English madrigal
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written for primarily unnaccompanied voices, word painting, like italian madrigals, but in English
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The triumphs of Oriana
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Written by Thomas Morley in 1601, a collection of 25 madrigals by 23 composers, modeled after Il trionfo di Dori. Each madrogal end with Long live fair oriana. In honor of queen elizabeth
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Lute Song
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english genre of solo song with lute accompaniment
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Jacques Arcedelt
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Franco-Flemish composer who worked in Florence and Rome for almost three decades before returning to france in 1551. Composed Il bianco e dolce cigno which is one of the most famous madrigals. "little deaths"
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Capriano de Rore
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The leading madrigal composer of the mid 16th century. imbued every detail of the music with rhythm, sense and feeling.
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Carlo Gesualdo
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was an aristocrat, also a murderer, found his wife in bed with her lover and killed them both.
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Madalena Casulana







Madelena Casulana
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first women composer.
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Thomas Weelkes
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Wrote his own poetry, As vesta was descending
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John Dowland
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English Composer, flow my tears
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consort
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An instrumental ensemble of 4-1 mmbers. "broken" meant having more than one type of instrument,
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Syntagma musicum
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Systematic treatise of music, Sebastian virdung, book that describes unstruments and how to play them
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basse danse
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"low dance" a stately couple dance marked by gracefully raising and lowering the body.
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branle
Definition
a sideways step
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intabulation
Definition
arrangements of vocal pieces for lute or keyboard.
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variation form
Definition
independent instrumental pieces based on dances
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virginal
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harpsicord
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prelude, fantasia, ricecare
Definition
Improved lute and keyboard pieces that were used to introduce a piece, fill time, or establish a mode
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toccata
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the most important keyboard genre
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canzona
Definition
light, fats moving, strongly rhythmis pieces based on an earlier vocal model.
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St. Mark's Cathedral
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Prestigous Musicians, Doge's private church
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Polychoral
Definition
works for two or more choirs, Gabriele
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Gabrieli
Definition
St, Mark's composer, 100 motests and 30 madrigals
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Thirty Years' War
Definition
brought english composers to france
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baroque
Definition
"a misshappen pearl" 1600-1750
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affections
Definition
objectified emotions or states of mind such as sadness, joy, fear, wonder
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concertato medium
Definition
imstruments play independent parts
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second practice
Definition
new treatment of dissonances
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first practice
Definition
traditional treatment of dissonance
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figured bass
Definition
bass line supplied with numbers or accidental signs
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realization
Definition
performing music that's notation isn't complete (like a basoo continuoso)
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ornaments
Definition
trill or turn, short
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ornamentation
Definition
ornaments added to an entire existing melody.
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