| Importance of the Catholic Church |
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-only source of church
-divine office (everyday worship)
-mass (worship service)
-Patronage service (church number one) |
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| -credited for having system of music for church organization anc chant notation |
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| Characteristics of Gregorian Chant |
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-plainsong, plain chant
-sung both in mass and divine office
-monophony
-sung in Latin
-flexible rhythm and tempo w/o meter
-unmeasured, free flowing rhythm
-no major/minorkey system |
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| text is changed according to church |
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Kyrie-Gloria-Credo-Sanctus
Agnuus Dei |
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| music in literature of Catholic Church service |
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| proper mass and orginary mass |
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| a series of notes are assigned to one syllable of text |
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| one note for each syllable |
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| what was the early polyphonic texture |
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| drone-like held chant melody in bottom voice, added line to top movign with shorter note |
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| -best known female composer |
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| characteristics of Secular Music |
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-played by improvisation, and passed by oral tradition
-non-religious music, using vernacular |
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| everyday language of a particular region |
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| started out as traveling musician/entertainers/typically instrumentalists attached to a court |
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| status of woman in the middle ages |
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| not allowed to participate in services, but active in convent |
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| general characteristics of Renaissance Music |
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-‘known’ composers, credit
-concept of composition
-vocal music was more important than instrumental music |
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-the most influential figure
-composed both sacred and secular music |
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| characteristics of Renaissance vocal music |
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| -music-making in home–aristocratic entertainment, for amateur performance |
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| music based on Gregonian chant melodies |
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| when one voice is presented and hten restated immediately by another voice |
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-note against note
-the compositional procedure, pratice of combining melodically independent parts |
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| singing without instruments |
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| -father of both reformation and protestant congregational singing |
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| musical form in which multiple stanzas of text are set to the same melody |
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| -a hymn designed for congregational singing |
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| characteristics of madrigal |
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-a peice for multiple voice parts set to secular poem
-sung in vernacular
composed in th 16th and early 17th century |
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| musical representation of specific poetic images, often found in Renaissance and Baroque music, stragedy used to highlight meaning in text |
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| Renaissance instrumental music |
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| -indended for dancing, mostly improvisded |
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| the most popular instrument, transcribed from vocal or dance music |
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| solo vocal songs with lute accompaniment |
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| general characteristics of Baroque music |
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-representation of clear emotion states, drastic changes of mood
-sudden changes in dynamic level, no gradual change |
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| beat is far more emphasized and steady tempo |
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-one melody
-mono+melody+instr. music |
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-composed madrigal and operas
-the 1st composer of opera production
-introduced opera as a major art form |
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-first English composer of his day
-served as an organist of Westminster Abbey |
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| male singer whose role is woman on stage |
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| major innovation in muscial genre, involves music, acting, poetry, dance, and costume |
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| combination of singing and speech, flexible rhythm following inflection of the text |
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| accompanied lyrical style singing, melodic and expressive |
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| the text to be sung in an opera |
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| group of singers, homophonic texture to understand words, less text to emphasize certian mood or work |
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