History of Western Music Exam 1

succession of pitches

patterns of accented and unaccented beats

unaccompanied, monophonic music, no fixed rhythm or meter, such as Gregorian chant

secular French vocal music, polyphonic love songs

600 AD to end of 15th century

singing of Psalms

"before sound", genre of plainchant in simple style with few melismas

born nobelwoman but became nun and later abbess, wrote books on theology, medicine, and sciences

organization of musical material

multiple verses to the same music

troubador poet and composer, served Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

instrumental dance music, one-line pieces with the same or similar musical pjrases repeated many times in varied forms

earliest genre of Medieval polyphonic music

Multiple notes on the same syllable

developed the first well-understood system of rhythmic notation, educated composers such as Leonin and Perotin

two or more sounds that are harmonious, good intervals are 8th 4th and 5th

derived from organum, gregorian fragment repeared in bottom voice, two voices above singin secual text

more than one melody at the same time, developed at the end of the Middle ages

separating pitch and rhythm, create repeating rhythms and pitch patterns but not repeated at same rate

famous for organa for as many as four voices, went to Notre Dame School

period of "rebirth", shift from Church authority to humanism

composers departing from strict plainchaint, embellish plainchants with extra notes, set in graceful rhythms and smoothed awkward phrases

emphasized in Rennaissance music, has to do with rich tone and color

msuc in harmonic, chordal structure, voices sometimes act as chord accompaniment

one of the most tuneful plainchants genres, used in religious settings

Rennaissance composer, French, homophonic hymns

parts of the mass

repeated motives on different pitch levels

considered first master of Renaissance style, wrote four part mass with imitation from plainchant hymn

tried to make words sung to speech-like rhythms

matching music to word meaning

wanted to convince the pope that polyphonic composers could still write church music that people could understand

short song to a 1 stanza poem, secular, originally Italian

Renaissance Dances, solemn dance in duple meter

faster dance in triple meter

meeting of the Catholic church to start counter-reformation, almost eliminated all polyphonic music in masses

short composition in Latin, made of short sections in homophony and imitative polyphony

organismst and composers at St. Marc's basilica, considered architecture's effect on music, Venetian Polychoral motet

"new art", organum regarded ancient, motet improved upon, used isorhythm, more secular and intricate