quiz 1 Flashcards
(179 cards)
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med period
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450-1450
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manuscript (ms., plural mss.)
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HANDWRITTEN book, doc, music piece
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sacred
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churchy
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secular
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not churchy
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liturgy
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participation of people in work of god > mass, gospel, worship
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plainchant
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sung sacred text; usually latin, nonmetric, monophonic, a cappella
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gregorian chant
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plainchant assc with pope greg 1’s 6th cent reforms
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mass
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public worship
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mass proper
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part of mass that changes based on part of lit year
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mass ordinary
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always the same
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ordinary in order
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kyrie > gloria > credo > sanctus > agnus dei
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church modes/modal harmony
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basis of medieval harmonic system (scales)
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plainchant performance practice
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direct, responsorial, or antiphonal
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direct performance
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solo or unison; everyone sings same thing
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responsorial def
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leader does verses, choir or congregation answers with next verse or refrain > amen or hallelujah common
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antiphonal
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singers div into groups and alternate phrases; no leader
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gradual
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genre - part of mass, after epistle and before alleluia
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alleluia
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genre - part of mass
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drone (part)
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one note throughout the piece
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earliest extant mss of secular voc music
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12th cent
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earliest extant mss of inst music
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12th cent
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notre dame school start
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1170
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organum
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genre - sacred medieval polyphony > adding addl melodic lines, 1-3, to plainchant
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troubadour/trobairitz/trouvère
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LITERATE secular poets/composers > music for royal court
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jongleur
illiterate "freelance" musicians > usually memorized music
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estampie
genre, dance - usually several repeated units, monophonic, textless
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courtier
person attending royal court to advise royals
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occitan/provençal
language - 12th, 13th cent
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canso
genre - troubadour love song, occitan
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hortus deliciarum when
1175
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hortus deliciarum what
big ms by herrad of landsberg > by woman for women
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strophic form
same melody, diff verse
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cantus firmus
new parts added to old plainchant; sacred, polyphonic
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notre dame school when
12th-14th cent
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notre dame school what
sacred + sec poly music
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notre dame big composers
léonin, pérotin
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notre dame big style term
ars antiqua
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notre dame big genres
organum, motet, conductus, mass mvt
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conductus
ars antiqua; performed while lectionary was carried to be read
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conductus when
~1150-14th cent
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ars antiqua big composers
leonin, perotin
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ars nova style what
"new art" style
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ars nova notation what
music notation > flexible rhythm notation, subdivisions
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ars subtilior what
style - mostly secular court music, more complicated rhythm + dissonance; fixation on complexity
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chantilly codex what
most extensive ars subt. ms., lots of dance, mostly french
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guillaume da machaut when, who, what style, and big accomp
1300-1377; cleric, courtier, poet/musician; ars nova foremost composer, sacred + sec, earliest known complete ordinary mass setting
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da machaut big thing
earliest extant complete ordinary mass setting, notre dame mass
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a cappella
duh
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ensemble
timbres heard in the piece > voices, instruments, accomp or main parts
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genre
category of music composition > style traits
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pitch
uh
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monophonic texture
one melody line (can be multiple ppl singing)
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polyphonic texture
different melody/harmony lines + diff rhythms
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homophonic texture
ONE melody + accomp > same rhythm (i think)
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syllabic text setting
each syllable = one pitch
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melismatic text setting
multiple pitches per syllable
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importance of literacy in extant music
not many people were illiterate and did not write their music down, so we just have sacred music until the 12th (?) cent
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dance in early extant inst music
expected activity in court; most instrumental music was dance
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infl of music notation on writing of early music hx
tended to be incomplete bc performers did not write details of performance, so we don't know if instruments were used or how music was performed
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anon - viderunt omnes
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anon - viderunt omnes
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anon - viderunt omnes
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anon - viderunt omnes
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anon - viderunt omnes
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anon - viderunt omnes
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anon - viderunt omnes
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anon - viderunt omnes
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anon - viderunt omnes
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (1)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (1)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (1)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (1)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (1)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (1)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (2)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (2)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (2)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (2)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (2)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (2)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (2)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (2)
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hildegard von bingen - alleluia! o virga mediatrix (2)
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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beatriz de dia (la comtessa) - a chantar m’er de so qu’ieu non volria
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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perotin - viderunt omnes
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herrad of landsberg - sol oritur occasus
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herrad of landsberg - sol oritur occasus
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herrad of landsberg - sol oritur occasus
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herrad of landsberg - sol oritur occasus
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herrad of landsberg - sol oritur occasus
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herrad of landsberg - sol oritur occasus
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herrad of landsberg - sol oritur occasus
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herrad of landsberg - sol oritur occasus
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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trebor - helas! pitie envers moy dort si fort
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guillaume da machaut - agnus dei (from notre dame mass)
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guillaume da machaut - agnus dei (from notre dame mass)
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guillaume da machaut - agnus dei (from notre dame mass)
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guillaume da machaut - agnus dei (from notre dame mass)
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guillaume da machaut - agnus dei (from notre dame mass)
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guillaume da machaut - agnus dei (from notre dame mass)
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guillaume da machaut - agnus dei (from notre dame mass)
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guillaume da machaut - agnus dei (from notre dame mass)
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guillaume da machaut - agnus dei (from notre dame mass)
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guillaume da machaut - agnus dei (from notre dame mass)
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ars subtilior when
late 14th cent
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ars nova when
14th cent
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chantilly codex when
1390
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chantilly codex how many + what type + where of pieces
112, polyphon, french
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da machaut when
1300-1377
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da machaut who
cleric, courtier, poet/musician, composer
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da machaut style
ars nova, sacred + sec
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ars antiqua what
old style
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anon viderunt omnes genre
plainchant gradual
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anon viderunt omnes texture
monophonic
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alleluia! o virga mediatrix 1 practice
direct perf
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alleluia! o virga mediatrix 2 practice
responsorial
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a chantar genre
canso
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a chantar lang + fx
occitan, secular
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a chantar ensemble
voice, vielle, flute
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a chantar texture
monophonic in surviving manuscript; homophonic here
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perotin viderunt genre
4 voice florid organum (ars antiqua, cantus firmus)
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perotin viderunt texture
non-imit polyphony
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sol oritur occasus genre
conductus
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sol oritur occasus texture
2 part parallel motion
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sol oritur occasus form
strophic
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sol oritur occasus performance prac
responsorial
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da machaut agnus dei genre
mass mvt, ars nova
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da machaut agnus dei texture
4 voice, non imitative polyphony
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trebor helas genre
rondeaux
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trebor helas language
provencal
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trebor helas style
ars subt
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trebor helas ensemble
tenor, viol, lute
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trebor helas texture
non-imitative poly
