Western Music History (Chapter 4-6)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 versus | A type of Latin sacred song, either monophonic or polyphonic, setting a rhymed, rhythmic poem. |
| conductus | A serious medieval song, monophonic or polyphonic, setting a rhymed, rhythmic Latin poem. |
| goliard | Medieval Latin songs associated with the goliards, who were wandering students and clerics |
| chanson de geste | Type of medieval French epic recounting the deeds of national heros, sung to melodic formulas. |
| bard | Medieval poet-sing, especially of epics |
| jongleur | Itinerant medieval musician or street entertainer. |
| minstrel | Thirteenth century traveling musician, some of whome were also employed at a court or city. |
| trobairitz | A female troubadour |
| troubadour | A poet-composer of southern France who wrote monophonic songs in Occitan in the 12th or 13th century. |
| trouvere | A poet-composwer of northen France who wrote Monophonic songs in Old French in the 12th or 13th century. |
| chansonnier | Manuscript collection of secular songs with French words; used both for collections of monophonic troubadour and trouvere songs and for collections of polyphonic songs. |
| bar form | Song form in which the first section of melody is sung twice with different texts (the two stollen) andthe ramainder (the abgesang) is sung once. |
| cantiga | Medieval monophonic song in Spanish or Portuguese. |
| vielle | Medieval bowed string instrument, early form of the fiddel and predecessor of the violin and viol. |
| hurdy-gurdy | An instrument with melody and drone strings, bowed by a rotating wheel turned with a crank, with levers worked by a keyboard to change the pitch on the melody string(s). |
| psaltery | A plucked string instrument whose strings are attached to a frame over a wooden sounding board. |
| estampie | Medieval instrumental dance that features a series of sections, each played twice with two different endings, ouvert and clos. |
| carol | English songs, usually on a religious subject, with several stanzas and a burden or refrain. From the fifteenth century on, most carols are polyphonic. |
| discant | 12 century style of polyphony in which the upper voice or voices have about one to three notes for each note of the lower voice. |
| clausula | In Notre Dame polyphony, a self-contained section of an organum that closes with a cadence. |
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