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The Middle Ages
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Music
Undergraduate 1
09/12/2009

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Term
Vere Dignum
Definition
-plainchant
-reciting tone
-three sentences, in phrases, last phrase in lower reciting tone.
- preface for mass on Whit Sunday
Term
In Paradisum
Definition
-plainchant
-Gregorian antiphon
- sung during buriel procession
- In Mixolydian mode (G)
Term
Columba Aspexit
Definition
- Artist: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
-plainchant
-honored Saint Maximinus
-belongs to late medieval genre called sequence
- solist and choir parts
- recording includes drone
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La Dousa Votz
Definition
Artist: Bernart de Ventadorn (1135-1194)
- troubadour song
-written in Provencal
- in G mode
-string instruments, single singer
-fast tempo
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Alleluia Diffua Est Gratia
Definition
Artist: Perotin (the Great)c. 1200
-starts with Gregorian Plainchant, then goes into the organum
- early polyphony, organum
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Ave Maris Stella
Definition
Artist: Guillaume Dufay (1400 - 1474)
homophonic hymn.only even stanzas are Guillaume's music., uses paraphrase
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Quant En Moi
Definition
Guillaume De Machaut(1300-1377) - motet
plainchant repeated, with two love poems, with faster
Term
Pange Lingua Mass: Qui Tollis from Gloria
Definition
Josquin Deprez imitative polyphony
polyphony, then homophony, then
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Pange Lingua Mass: Kyrie
Definition
Josquin Deprez 1450- 1521
monophony then point of immitation
Term
Pope Marcellus Mass: Gloria
Definition
Giovanni pierluigi da palestrina 1525 - 1594 written in 1557
more homophony
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Kemp's Jig
Definition
anonymous
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Weelkes: As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending
Definition
thomas weelkes 1575- 1623
english madrigal
Term
Gui
Definition
Term
antiphon
Definition
simplest genre of plainchant
Term
troubadours
Definition
poet-composers who came from south france
Term
trouveres
Definition
poet composers from north of france
Term
minnesingers
Definition
poet composers from germany
Term
organum
Definition
traditional plainchant melody with a another melody in counterpoint sung simultaneously to same words
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motet
Definition
like organum, but upper lines given own words
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isorhythm
Definition
successive lengthy passages with similar rhythms but different melodies
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isorhythm
Definition
successive lengthy passages with similar rhythms but different melodies
Term
hocket
Definition
places in song where you can hear rhythmic repetitions
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paraphrase
Definition
embellishing plainchant by adding notes
Term
homophony
Definition
harmonic texture, polyphonic, but voices move together and form chords
Term
chansons
Definition
simpler styles of polyphonic songs often used for sacred texts
Term
mass music
Definition
kyrie, gloria, credo, sanctus, agnus dei
Term
declamation
Definition
rhythms and melodies are approximately set to normal speech.
Term
madrigal
Definition
one stanza poem with rapid turnover of ideas an images
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