music history exam 2
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musichistoryriceu on March 17, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Phillip the Chancellor (dates) | 1160-1236 |
| Franco of Cologne (dates/fl.) | 1250-1280 |
| Black Death (dates) | 1348-1352 |
| Hundred Years War (dates) | 1337-1453 |
| Great Schism (dates) | 1305-1418 |
| Council of Constance | ended the Great Schism |
| Philippe de Vitry (dates) | 1291-1361 |
| Guillaume de Machaut (dates) | 1300-1377 |
| Francesco Petrarcha (dates) | 1304-1374 |
| Baldesar Castiglione (dates) | 1478-1529 |
| Francesco Landini (dates) | 1325-1397 |
| Guillaume Dufay (dates) | 1397-1474 |
| Madrigal | Italian a a B |
| Ballata | Italian A b b b a A |
| Caccia | Italian 3 part canon |
| Landini (description) | -wrote 154 polyphonic songs (140 ballate) -Italian under 3rd cadence |
| Squarcialupi Codex | single largest primary source of 14th century Trecento music |
| Humanism in Music | -sensual experience -accesibility (balancing form with expression) -text is literal, music is spiritual/emotional |
| Codex Chantilly | 120 pieces of French Ars Subtilior music. |
| Augenmusik | music for the eyes |
| Virelai | French A b b a A |
| Ballade | French a a b C |
| Rondeau | French A B a A a b A B |
| Guillaume Machaut (description) | wrote hockets, used formes fixes, composed Messe de Nostre Dame (1st cyclical mass Ordinary) |
| Color | repeating melody |
| Talea | repeating rhythmic pattern |
| Ars Nova | -response to corruption in 14th century -emphasis on rhythmic subtlety (introduction of minim) -signs of mensuration (time signatures) -red notation diminution (3:2) |
| Franco of Cologne (description) | music theorist, wrote Ars cantus mensurabilis |
| Philip the Chancellor (description) | Paris nobleman, theologian, Latin lyric poet |
| Conductus | two to four newly composed voices, meant to be played when moving (escorting) |
| Motet | tenor voice held pre-existing music/text, added voice in Latin (duplum), added voice in Latin or French (triplum). |
| Christopher Page (source reading) | -featured Cleriadus et Meliadice -minstrels with instruments passed the time -song/voice was favored -amateurs "held" the tenor -spontaneity for celebrations and other important occasions |
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