| When were the dark ages of the Medieval era? |
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| What progress was made in the Middle Ages? |
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Mechanical Mills
Clocks
Rise of Trade Guilds (Bourgeoisie)
Gradual decline of Feudalism
Music Notation |
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| What were the dominant forces during the Medieval era? |
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| What is the church’s role during the Medieval era? |
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| an important role in art and preserving knowledge of the ancient world. |
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| What are the musical settings of worship? |
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Mass
Proper
Ordinary
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei |
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| Monophonic, rhythmically free, usually religious |
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| What were the music notations developed in the church? |
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| first music theorist in the Middle Ages to discuss music notation on a staff – Invented solfeggio (do re mi) |
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| Grows from chant, earliest form of polyphony, use of perfect intervals, Hocet |
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| Rhythmic, secular based text |
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| Polyphonic, based on a cantus firmus, addition of secular text |
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| What are Troubadours (minstrels)? |
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| Itinerant (on the road) medieval musicians who sing about chivalry, Courtly Love |
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| (The New Art) 14th cen period of musical complexity. |
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| Who was Guillaume de Machaut? |
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| Dominant composer of the ars nova. |
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| Who was Philippe de Vitry? |
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| medieval composer, theoretician, who created the term “Ars Nova” |
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| fixed forms that set the template for medival songs |
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| What are three characteristics of the Renaissance era? |
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The golden age of “a cappella” singing
Imitation and polyphonic texture the norm
Gradual increased importance of purely instrumental and secular music |
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| Reformation/Counter-Reformation |
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| moving toward less complexity, more understandable church music. Renassance |
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| championed by Martin Luther, perfected by Bach Renaissance |
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| Polphonic, 3 or 4 voice, set to secular poetry Renaissance |
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| the complete family of instrument |
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| An ensemble of full range of mixed instruments |
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| What types of chants are there? |
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| Gregorian, Melismatic, Syllabi |
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| lines added to the cantus firmus in a motet |
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| What are the types of Formes fixes? |
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| ballade, virelai, rondeau. |
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