Middles Ages Terms
Sections of the Roman Catholic Mass that remain the same throughout the throughout the church year
This four voice Renaissance motet is dedicated to the Virgin Mary and contains imitative textures that alternate with homorhythmic settings.
What is "Ave Maria...virgo serena"?
A small book contain the parts for the specific singer.
What is part book?
The approximate dates of the Medieval era.
What is 476-1450?
scale patterns distinguished by their own patterns of half and whole steps
What are modes?
soft instruments (literally, "low," but referring to volume, not pitch), suitable for the chamber. Includes vielles, rebecs and other bowed strings, lutes and other plucked strings, recorders
What is bas instruments?
What is Gloria?
An expressive device where the music reflects the meaning of the words.
Musical pictorialization
What is word painting?
The approximate dates of the Renaissance.
What is 1450-1600?
the earliest form of polyphonic music
*new melodic lines were added to an existing chant (cantus firmus)
*most intervals were P4, P5, and P8.
What is organum?
A Renaissance secular work (originating in Italy) for voices, with or without instruments , set to a short lyric love poem
more serious in content. could be political.
What is Italian Madrigal?
Susato's composition that we looked at in this course found in his publication of dances "Danserye".
What is Three Dances?
This English composer used clever word painting in his lighthearted madrigals.
What is John Farmer?
The year Monteverdi's Italian Madrigal "Si ch'io vorrei morire" was composed.
What is 1603.
A compositional device developed by Ars Nova which combines melodic patterns and rhythms patterns that are overlapping rather than happening at the same time.
What is isorhythm?
A 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Catholic Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.
What is the Reformation?
This vocal composition features a simple text, word painting, non-sense syllables.
What is "Fair Phyllis"?
This remarkable devout woman of God composed chants and an impressive morality play entitled "Ordo Virtutum".
What is Hildeguard von Bingen?
This is the year that Palestrina composed a very important mass demonstrating the new requirements for music in the Roman Catholic Church.
What is 1567?
Medieval poet-musicians in northern France
What is trouveres?
a polyphonic vocal genre, often secular in the middle ages but sacred or devotional thereafter (Renaissance); often used a cantus firmus-
What is a Motet?
This sensuous Madrigal represents the peak of the Italian Madrigal tradition.
What is "Si ch'io vorrei morire"?
The first composer of polyphony known to us by name and was also active in Paris in the late 12th century
What is Leonin?
The year of publication for Susato's "Three Dances".
What is 1551?