Eras Tour
The name of this era means "bizarre, exaggerated, in bad taste"
Baroque
The first method for notating music on paper, these could only represent melodic gesture and relative pitch, not rhythm
Neumes
Though known today as one of the "greatest" German composers of all time, during their lifetime this musician was relatively obscure, composing mainly to satisfy the requirements of their job
Johann Sebastian Bach
Stable, archetypal states of the soul that seventeenth-century Europeans believed we experience as emotions
Affections
This Renaissance-era religious movement opposed the absolute authority of the Catholic church
Protestant Reformation
The eighteenth-century European cultural movement whose central themes were reason, nature, and progress
Enlightenment
Notre Dame rhythmic modes were always based in groupings of (number) pulses
Three
This composer is known for utilizing unusually wide melodic ranges and long melismasm as well as receiving mystical visions and founding their own convent
Hildegard of Bingen
A repeated pattern of descending notes in the bass, such as that found in Monteverdi's "Lamento della ninfa," meant to represent great sorrow
Lament bass
Tonal (or functional) harmony is based on this natural phenomenon
the overtone series
This era was characterized by humanism--a movement in the arts, philosophy, and literature
Although it was already possible to notate rhythm, this style of notation introduced smaller rhythmic values and the grouping and division of beats into two.
Ars nova
This Protestant leader wrote church music in the vernacular language, using strophic form and simple melodies in order to lend the congregation a greater role in worship
Martin Luther
An operatic role in which a mezzo-soprano singer plays a young male character, who is usually comedic, naïve, and susceptible in love
Pants role
By the Classical era, most operatic arias followed this form
Da capo (ABA)
In this era (specify ERA and EARLY/LATE), church chant was passed orally rather than being written on paper
Early Medieval
The French baroque performance practice of playing two note of equal WRITTEN value as "long-short"
Notes inégales
This composer most significantly developed and popularized the concerto genre, due to their job as music director at a school for orphan girls
Antonio Vivaldi
In this dynamic, popular in Medieval literature, a man has a crush on a woman of higher social rank who wants nothing to do with him
This section of Lully's operas accompanied the entrance of King Louis XIV
French overture
This era (specify ERA and EARLY/LATE) saw the Great Western Schism, the bubonic plague, and the invention of the mechanical clock and eyeglasses
Late Medieval
In music of the Ars subtilior, this was used in the score to indicate different prolations
Colored notation
This Franco-Flemish composer was popular among Renaissance humanists, because of his clear text setting that mirrored rhythms of speech
Josquin Desprez
Poetry and music in the 12th century explored this topic, which had not previously been addressed in music
Human love
This Frankish king standardized church chant in order to unify his kingdom in the 800s
Charlemagne