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Musician in Avignon. Created round/canon. Made scores into shapes representing the music.
Who is Cordier (Baude Cordier)?
100
Main composer of the French royal court. Mentor to many other composers of the time. First to really use imitation.
Who is Ockeghem (Johannes Ockeghem)?
100
English name for canon that endlessly circles back to the beginning.
What is Rota?
100
Duplication of the notes & rhythms in one voice by a following voice
What is Imitation?
100
French word for song.
What is Chanson?
200
Composer famous for writing the motet for the Florentine Cathedral reflecting the architecture.
Who is Dufay (Guillaume Dufay)?
200
Rescued France from the English during the Hundred Years' War.
Who is Joan of Arc?
200
English musical technique in which 2 or 3 voices engage in voice/phrase exchange.
What is Rondellus?
200
Imitation of a complete subject at a fixed interval and time delay.
What is Canon?
200
A scholar of music.
What is Musicologist?
300
Famous English composer. Wrote in pan-isorhythmic and contenance angloise style.
Who is Dunstaple (John Dunstaple)?
300
Italian composer in Avignon. Composed pieces with polyrhythms and polymeter.
Who is Caserta (Philippus de Caserta)?
300
When a composer takes a pre-existing plainsong and embellishes it somewhat.
What is Paraphrase Technique?
300
Favorite melody that is often used for religious purposes.
What is L'Homme arme tune (Armed Man Tune)?
300
Cadence with 2 leading tones.
What is Double leading-tone Cadence?
400
Renowned Italian poet. Official of the papal court. Criticized the move of the papacy to Avignon, France from Rome.
Who is Petrach (Francesco Petrarch)?
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The refrain with which an English carol begins and is repeated after each stanza.
What is Burden?
400
Canon in which 2 voices perform the same music at different rates of speed.
What is Mensuration Canon?
400
Battle where King Henry V started to take over France. It was turned into a song in the form of a carol.
What is Battle of Agincourt?
400
Style of music composed during the late 14th century. marked by extreme rhythmic relationships.
What is Ars subtilior (more subtle art)?
500
Important composer of the trecento. Famous for a type of musical cadence.
Who is Landini (Francesco Landini)?
500
Style of English medieval choral music when singers improvised around a given chant placed in the middle voice.
What is Faburden?
500
Continental style. Improvised below a given chant a 4th & 6th below a chant.
What is Fauxbourdon?
500
Split of the pope regency in Avignon, France.
What is Great Western Schism?
500
Accidentals not found on the Guidonian scale.
What is Musica ficta?