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Music Unit1 Sec14-16
Music Terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |