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After some Burgundy
I'm a Mass-whole
England
Grab-bag
100
This area occupied vast tracts of land, and rivaled the kingdom of France in its influence.
What is the Duchy of Burgundy?
100
During the 1400s, composers considered how to do this to the Mass.
What is create a musically cohesive setting of the Ordinary?
100
The best known composer in England during the early 1400s.
Who is John Dunstable?
100
This melody made a popular cantus firmus.
What is "L'homme arme"?
200
The two most important composers at the Burgundian court during 1400-1450.
Who are Guillaume du Fay and Binchois?
200
In this type of Mass, each movement has the same cantus firmus.
What is a cantus firmus mass?
200
What event caused English and French musicians to intermix?
What is the Hundred Years' War?
200
By the 1400s, this term applied to any polyphonic setting of Latin, non-liturgical text.
What is motet?
300
Music at the Burgundian court had a cosmopolitan style. This was the reason.
What is many international visitors who brought their musicians? (France, England, Italy)
300
This type of Mass uses the same melodic motive at the beginning of each movement.
What is a motto mass?
300
What musical qualities define the "contenance angloise"?
Preference for 3rds and 6ths, stepwise or triadic melodies that are mostly syllabic, simpler rhythms.
300
The standard number of voices in a polyphonic work during the early 1400s
What is 3?
400
Philip the Good's Feast of the Pheasant used music in a myriad of ways. Name two.
1. To impress people with his power, 2. To distract from unpopular salt tax 3. Create support for new Crusade
400
What was one problem composers faced with the three-voice cantus firmus mass?
What is, "not being able to alter the notes of the cantus firmus limited compositional choices."?
400
A refrain sung at the beginning of the song and after each stanza.
What is a burden?
400
This term can mean 3 notes in the time of 2
What is hemiola?
500
The two most popular song forms at the Burgundian court.
Rondeau and Ballade?
500
How did composers solve the problems they encountered in the 3-voice cantus firmus mass?
1. Added contrabassus as the lowest voice or 2. put cantus firmus melody in the superious (highest voice)
500
The English technique of improvising two other voices around a main cantus-firmus melody.
What is faburden?
500
Dufay borrowed from his own ballade for this work.
What is "Missa Se la face ay pale."?