Chapter 13,14,15,16,17-Music Appreciation
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Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 organum | early form of polyphony, melody added a 4th or 5th above orginal chant line moving parallel to it |
| scores | written notes |
| nuemes | Symbols above text to show melody of music |
| cantus firmus | chant used as basis for polyphonic composition |
| polyphonic imitation | melodic phrases moving between voices in exact repetition |
| Proper of Mass | parts that change day to day: antiphons, readings, alleluia |
| Ordinary of Mass | parts that stay the same: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei |
| motet | polyphonic choral composition based on a sacred text that is not part of the ordinary at mass |
| madrigal | secular vocal works in several parts, usually five |
| word painting | music portrays the meaning of the words of the text; converys shades of meaning |
| movement | self-contained section of a larger work that can stand on its own |
| fugue | a polyphonic instrumental composition with a main theme repeated in all 'voices' with three parts; subject(main theme), answer(imitation in different voice), and countersubject(follows subject and answer in same voice) |
| oratorio | large scale choral work based on biblical story with music similar to opera but without staging or costumes |
| cantata | multi-movement work for soloist and orchestra that demonstrates the virtuostic ability of the soloist |
| continuo | an accompaniment found in Baroque music consisting of a chordal instrument playing chords and a low chordal instrument playing base line |
| terraced dynamics | sudden shifts in dynamics rather than gradual changes |
| ritornello form | form of a movement in a concerto in which the orchestra has a recurring theme like a refrain that alternates with the solo sections |
| Orfeo | Monteverdi, Baroque |
| Fugue No. 16 in G Minor | Bach, Baroque |
| Messiah | Handel, Baroque |
| Wachet Auf | Bach, Baroque |
| Treatise on Harmony | Rameau, Baroque |
| Well-Tempered Clavier | Bach, Baroque |
| Gratias tibi Deus | Psallentes, Middle Ages |
| Alleluia:Nativitas | Perotin, Middle Ages |
| Notre Dame Mass | Guillame de Machaut, Middle Ages |
| Ave Maria | Josquin Desprez, Middle Ages |
| Pope Marcellus Mass | Palestrina, Renaissance |
| As Vesta was Descending | Thomas Weelkes, Renaissance |
| Terpsichore | Michael Praetorius |
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