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Music History Test 2

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City-state   city that governed itself and the territory immediately around it  
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Squarcialupi Codex   music manuscript containing 354 compositions  
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Trecento   century of the 1300s in which arts flourished in Florence  
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Caccia   piece involving a musical canon in upper 2 voices supported by a slower moving tenor; means “hunt”  
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Landini cadence   sixth in outer voices expand to an octave; added lower neighbor-tone to upper part as it moved up to octave  
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Giovanni Boccaccio   wrote Decameron after surviving the Black Death through help of some women friends  
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Decameron   written by Giovanni Boccaccio; set of stories centered around women  
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Magister cappellae   leader of the chapel  
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Filippo Brunelleschi   Florentine architect who built a dome for the Florentines  
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Number symbolism   numbers possessed rich theological associations  
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Rondellus   distinctly English musical practice; 2 or 3 voices engage in voice exchange or phrase exchange  
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Faburden   singers improvised around a given chant  
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Fauxbourdon   singers of sacred music improvised at pitches a fourth and sixth below a given plainsong  
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Carol   strophic song for one to three voices, all of which were newly composed  
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Pan-isorhythmic   isorhythm applied to all voices, not just tenor  
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Contenance angloise   English manner (no dissonance)  
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Pan-consonance   almost every note is a member of a triad or a triadic inversion and not a dissonance  
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Burgundian lands   Dukes inherited, purchased, and conquered large portions of present-day northern France and the Low Countries  
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Chanson   French word for song  
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L’Homme arme’ tune   means Armed Man; written after fall of Constantinople – many polyphonic masses built upon it  
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Cantus firmus Mass   cyclic Mass in which 5 movements of the Ordinary are unified by means of a single cantus firmus  
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Cantus firmus   Latin meaning “firm” or “well-established”; a well-established, previously existing melody  
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Joan of Arc   miraculous Maid of Orleans who rescued France from the English in the last stages of the Hundred Years’ War  
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Mensuration canon   two voices perform the same music at different rates of speed; start at the same time, but one moves faster  
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Paraphrase technique   composer takes a pre-existing plainsong and embellishes it, imparting to it a rhythmic profile…elaborated chant serves as a basic melodic material for a polyphonic composition  
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Paraphrase Mass   all movements are united by a single paraphrased chant  
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Quodlibet   several secular tunes brought together; Latin for “whatever you like”  
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Multiple cantus firmus Mass   two or more cantus firmi sound simultaneously or successively in a Mass  
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hauts instruments   loud – trumpets, shawms, bagpipes, drums, and tambourine  
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Sackbut   slide trumpet; means “push-pull”…related to trombone  
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Bas instruments   soft – recorder, vielle, lute, harp, psaltery, portative organ, and harpsichord  
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Basse danse   principal aristocratic dance of court and city during the early Renaissance  
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Quattrocento   fifteenth century in Italy…Italian word for “the 1400’s”; period of enormous creativity in the visual arts  
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Contrafactum   transforming a secular piece into a sacred one  
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Frottola   used as a catch-all word to describe a polyphonic setting of a wide variety of strophic Italian poetry  
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Madrigal   catch-all term to describe settings of Italian verse; through-composed in 16th C. instead of strophic like before  
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Text painting (word painting)   music sounds out the meaning of the text, almost word for word  
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Madrigalism   musical clichés as sighs and dissonances for “harsh” words  
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Soggetto cavato   a “cut-out subject”…subject cut-out from the vowels  
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Penitential Psalms   seven Psalms among the 150 of the Psalter that are especially remorseful in tone and sung in the rites of the Catholic Church surrounding death and burial  
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Recitation tone   a constantly repeating pitch followed by a meditation; at the heart of the psalm tone  
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Clavichord   medieval instrument that produces sound when a tiny metal tangent in the shape of a “T” is pushed into the string from beneath  
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Lute   pear-shaped instrument with six sets of strings called courses, then made of animal gut, now made of wire  
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Consort   an ensemble of instruments all of one family  
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Broken consort   mixed ensemble; when instruments of different types play together  
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Canzona   freely composed instrumental piece, usually for organ or instrumental ensemble, which imitated the lively rhythms and lightly imitative style of the Parisian chanson  
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