Intro to Music Test One

Changes in musical style in the 14th century were so profound that music theorists referred to Italian and French music as the new art. Syncopation being used, important rhythmic practice.

In Medieval music, an italian poetic and musical form with the structure A BB AA

Melody-often a gregorian chant- used as the basis of a polyphonic composition.

A medieval dance, is one of the earliest surviving forms of instrumental music.

Melodies set to sacred latin texts, sung without accompaniment.

Sacred choral composition made up of 5 sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Angus Dei

Leonin and Perotin, developed rhythmic innovations. Used measured rhythm for the first time notation indicated precise rhythms as well as pitches. The University of Paris, cathedral of Notre Dame.

Medieval polyphony that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines.

Nobles. First large body of secular sungs surviving in decipherable notation were composed during the 12th and 13th centuries.

Choral music without instrumental accompaniment

Dancelike song for several voices, mostly homophonic in texture, with the melody in the highest voice and the syllables fa-la.

Plucked string instrument shaped like half a pear; used in Renaissance and baroque music.

Composition for several voices set to a short secular poem, usually about love, combining homophonic and polyphonic textures and often using word painting; common in renaissance music

Polyphonic choral work set to a sacred latin text other than that of the mass; one of the two main forms of sacred renaissance music.

Court dances were often performed in pairs. A favorite par was the stately pavane, or passamezzo, in duple meter, and the lively galliard, in triple meter.