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Mass for Christmas Day: Kyrie

Middle Ages

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Composer: Anonymous Monk

Genre: Mass (Plainchant)

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Epitaph of Seklios

Ancient Greek

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Composer: Ancient Greek

Genre: Epitaph

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Ordo Virtutum: In principo omnes

Middle Ages

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Composer: Hildegard of Bingen

Genre: Liturgical Drama

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Can vei la lauzeta mover

Middle Ages

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Composer: Bernart de Ventadorn

Genre: Troubadour Song

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Alleluia Justus ut palma, From Ad organum faciendum

Middle Ages

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Composer: Anonymous Monk

Genre: Organum

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Viderunt Omnes

Middle Ages

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Composer: Perotin

Genre: Organum Quadruplum

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Kyrie, from La Messe de Notre Dame

Middle Ages

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Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

Genre: Mass

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Foy Porter

Middle Ages

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Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

Genre: Rondeau

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Non avrà ma’ pietà

Middle Ages

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Composer: Francesco Landini

Genre: Ballata

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Quam pulchra es

Middle Ages

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Composer: John Dunstable

Genre: Motet

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Ave Maria…Virgo serena

Renaissance

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Composer: Josquin Desprez

Genre: Motet

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Missa Pange lingua, Kyrie

Renaissance

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Composer: Josquin Desprez

Genre: Cantus firmus mass

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Sing Joyfully unto God

Renaissance

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Composer: William Byrd

Genre: Full Anthem (Anglican)

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Agnus Dei 1 from Pope Marcellus Mass
(Missa Papae Marcelli)

(Renaissance)

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Composer: Palestrina

Genre: Catholic Mass

(Counter-Reformation)

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O Magnum Mysterium

Renaissance

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Composer: Tomas Luis de Victoria

Genre: Motet

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II Bianco e Dolce Cigno

Renaissance

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Composer: Jacques Arcadelt

Genre: Madrigal

(Italian)

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Da le Belle Contrade D’Oriente

Renaissance

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Composer: Cipriano de Rore

Genre: Madrigal

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“Io Parto” e non piú dissi

Renaissance

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Composer: Carlo Gesualdo

Genre: Madrigal

(Italian)

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Tant que vivray

Renaissance

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Composer: Claudin de Sermisy

Genre: Chanson

(French Song)

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As Vesta Was Descending

Renaissance

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Composer: Thomas Weelkes

Genre: English Madrigal

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Flow, My Tears

Renaissance

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Composer: John Dowland

Genre: Lute Song

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Dances from Danserye

Renaissance

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Composer: Tielman Susato

Genre: instrumental Dances

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Pavana Lachrymae

Renaissance

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Composer: William Byrd

Genre: Pavane Variations

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Cruda Amarlli

Ren/Baroque

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Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Genre: Madrigal

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Tu sei Morta, from L'Orfeo | Baroque
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi Genre: opera (recitative)
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Saul was verfolgst du mich | Baroque
Composer: Heinrich Schutz Genre: Sacred Concerto
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Toccata No.3 | Baroque
Composer: Girolamo Frescobaldi Genre: Toccata
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Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: ("Thy Hand, Belinda") | Baroque
Composer: Henry Purcell Genre: Opera (Recitative)
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Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: Dido's Lament ("When I am Laid in Earth) (Baroque)
Composer: Henry Purcell Genre: Ground Bass Aria
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Trio Sonata No.3: III. Adagio | Baroque
Composer: Arcangelo Corelli Genre: Trio Sonata
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Trio Sonata No.3: IV. Allegro | Baroque
Composer: Arcangelo Corelli Genre: Trio Sonata
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Prelude, from Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543 | Baroque
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Genre: Prelude (toccata)
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Fugue, from Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543 | Baroque
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Genre: Fugue
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Time Periods
Middle Ages 450-1450 Renaissance 1450-1600 Baroque 1600-1750
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Organum
Early polyphony, one or more voice parts accompanying the Cantus Firmus often in parallel motion
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Chanson
A French song
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Madrigal
A secular song for two or three unaccompanied voices
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Hildegard of Bingen | Middle Ages
German abbess and mystic who composed Liturgical Dramas
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Guido of Arezzo | Middle Ages
Italian Theorist. Developed solfege and Guidonian Hand.
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Benart de Ventadorn | Middle Ages
Troubadour (Poet and Composer)
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Leonín and Perotín | Middle Ages
Clergymen/Composers who worked at Notre Dame in Paris, and were closely associated with the development of organum.
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Basso Continuo
An instrumental bass line which runs throughout a piece, over which the player improvises a chordal accompaniment. The bass may be figured.
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Figured Bass
Is a reference term for the bass part of an ensemble work.
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Aria
Any closed lyrical piece for solo voice with or without instrumental accompaniment
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Recitative
A type of vocal writing, normally for a single voice, with the intent of mimicking dramatic speech in song.
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Sequence
A melodic or polyphonic idea consisting of a short figure or motif stated successively at different pitch levels
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Claudio Monteverdi
The most important musician in late 16th and early 17th century Italy. His nine books of madrigals consolidated the achievement of the late Renaissance masters.
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Heinrich Schutz
He was the greatest German composer of the 17th century and the first of international stature.
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Henry Purcell
17th century English Composer
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Girolamo Frescobaldi
Italian composer and keyboard virtuoso. He was one of the greatest keyboard composers of the first half of the 17th century.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Italian composer and violinist.
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Palestrina
Italian composer know for his strict style of diatonic counterpoint (stile antico) widely accepted for a model for teaching.
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Through-composed
New music for each stanza
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Humanism
The study of the linguistic and rhetorical traditions of classical antiquity.
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When and where was the first opera house opened?
Venice, Italy 1637
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In what city was opera created and by who?
Florence, Italy by the camerata
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Motet
Polyphonic music
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Mass
Catholic Latin Eucharistic service

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