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Music appreciation

Mid terms

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Define: A Capella Unaccompanied choral singing
Define: Chant Melody sung without accompaniment
Define: Church Modes Scales Consisting of 7 different tones, whose patterns are different from the major and minor keys
Define: Jongleurs WAndering minstrels of the Middle ages
define: Lute Plucked String Instrument
Define: Mass Ordinary Text portions of the Roman Catholic Mass which remain the same each day
Define: Mass Proper Text portions of the Roman Catholic Mass which change from day to day
Define: motet Polyphonic choral work set to a sacred latin text
Deinfe:Ricercar Polyphonic instrumental composition employing imitation
Define: Trouveres Poet-musicians of the French nobility
Define: Viol Family of bowed string instruments
Define: Word Painting Musical repersentation of specific poetic images
Composition and Composer: Josquin Desprez Ave Maria... Virgo Serena
Composition and Composer: Andrea Gabrieli Ricercar in the Twelfth Mode
Composition and Composer: Gullaume de Machaut Notre Dame Mass
Composition and Composer: G. P. da Palestrina Pope Marcellus Mass
Composition and Composer: Thomas Weelkes As Vesta Was Descending
Define: Sonata A choral work with or without vocal soloists, usually with orchestral accompaniment
Define: Score The text or book of a musical dramatic work
Define: Aria Song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment
Define: Basso Continuo Bass part together with numbers specifying the chords to be played above it
Define: Chorale Hymn tune for congregational use
Define: Chorale Prelude Instrumental composition based on a chorale
Define: Concerto Grosso Instrumental Composition in which a small group of soloists is pitted against a larger group
Define: Movement Imitation of a fugue subject before completion
Define: Opera Play, set to music and sung to orchestral accompaniment, with scenery, costumes, and action.
Define: Oratorio Large scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, usually set to a narative biblical text
Define: Overture Orchestral coposition performed before the curtain rises on a dramatic work
Define: Pedal Point Single tone, usually in the bass, that is held while other voices produce a series of changing harmonies against it
Define: Recitative Vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech
Define: Sonata Instrumental composition in several movements
Define: Suite Set of dance inspired movements
Define: Trill Music ornament consisting of the rapid alteration of two tones that are a whole or half-step apart
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