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| Aspect of music that deals with succession of pitches | Melody
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| Notes | Pitch
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| Aspect of music having to do with duration of notes in time | Rhythm
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| Pulse of the music | Beat
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| Speed of music | Tempo
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| Regular groupings of beats | Meter
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| Simultaneous sounding of different pitches | Harmony
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| Two different pitches produced at the same time | Interval
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| Three or more notes produced simultaneously | Chord
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| Intervals or chords that sound stable | Consonance
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| Intervals or chords that sound unstable | Dissonance
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| The basic subject matter of a piece of music | Theme
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| the way in which multiple sounds blend together | Texture
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| Musical texture in which two or more melodic lines are played or sung simultaneously | Polyphony
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| Way of describing things that occur at one point in time | Vertical
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| Way of describing things that occur over time, such as rhythm or melody | Horizontal
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| Volume of sound | dynamics
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| The sonorous quality of an instrument or voice | Timbre
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| A selection of ordered pitches | Scale
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| One note per syllable | Syllabic Chant
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| A couple notes per syllable | Neumatic Chant
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| Many notes per syllable | Melismatic Chant
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| Many notes on one syllable | Melisma Chant
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| Two melodic lines placed against each other | Organum
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| Note against note | Contrapunctus
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| Credited with coming up with the four line staff | Guido of Arezzo
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| The first composers who taught at Notre Dame cathedral/university | Leonin and Perotin
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| THe piece of borrowed material a piece is built around | Cantus Firmus
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| Mathematical function that says which sounds are encompassed in a single pitch | Harmonic Series
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| Considered the greatest composer of the medieval period | Guillame Machaut
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| Polyphonic piece that's not for the mass | Motet
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| Texture that elevates one voice above a bed of chords or harmony | Homophony
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| One of the great Reniassance composers | Josquin
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| Mass written by Palestrina, saved the day for polyphony | Pope Marcellus Mass
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| Writes a famous piece called L'homme Arme Mass | Guillame Dufay
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| French musicians that lived in the courts | Troubadours/Trouveres
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| The progressive tradition in the 1300's that pushed music to new limits | Ars Nova
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| Language that is native to the region | Vernacular Language
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| The most important secular genre of music in the Renaissance | Madrigal
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| The act of writing music that expressed the meaning of a single word | Word Painting
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| When a melody is passed between voices | Imitation
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| When a melody is repeated in the same voice at different pitch | Sequencing
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| Late Renaissance composer, usually considered the turning point from Renaissance to Baroque period | Claudio Monteverdi
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| Madrigals that used instruments as well as singers | Concerted Madrigals
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| Instrumental group that accompanies a soloist | Basso Continuo
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| An argument concerning dissonance in music. Artusi argued that it was wrong and broke the rules | Artusian Conflict
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| Old, conservative style, based on church music, sparing use of dissonance | Prima Practica
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| New, progressive style, used mostly in secular music, writes music that supports the text. The meaning of text drives the style of music | Seconda Practica
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| Muiscal Drama | Opera
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| A group of intellectuals | Camerata
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| A group of singers not involved with the actual drama that comment on the stage event | Chorus
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| Speech-like singing, music that mimics human speech, like a dialogue in a play | Recitative
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| Song, written for one character in early operas | Aria
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| Gray area, somewhere between aria and recitative, blends them | Arioso
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| The first opera written in 1597 | Dafne, by Jacopo Peri
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| Noble court where Monteverdi worked | Gonzaga Court
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| Desciples of Bacchus | Bacchantes
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| The text of opera | Libretto
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| The person who writes the text in opera | Librettist
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| Male singer who was castrated before puberty | Castrato
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