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Music Unit1 Sec14-16
Music Terms
Question | Answer |
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A Cappela | Choral music with out instruments. |
Cantus Firmus | Fixed melody. |
Humanism | Phylosophy focused on earthly and individual existence. |
Josquin de Prez | Transformational figure from medieval to renaissance period who wrote motets. |
Motet | Poliphonic vocal genre. |
Vernacular | Common language spoken by people. |
Requiem | Death mass. |
Palestrina | Answered demands of counter reformation with clear choral settings. |
Madrigals | Setting lyrics to love poems. |
Monteverdi | Master of madrigals and operas. |
Sackbut | Brass instruments; Ancestor of trombone. |
Cornetto | Early instrument of brass family with woodwind like finger holes developed from cow horn but made from wood. |