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Section 1

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staff   set off five horizontal lines on or between which the notes are placed  
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pitch   the highness or lowness of a tone  
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interval   the distance between two pitches  
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octave   interval between notes of the same name  
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pitch range   difference between highest and lowest pitch that an instrument can produce  
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dynamics   levels of loudness and softness  
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forte   loud  
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piano   soft  
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mezzo   medium  
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timbre   distinctive sound quality of an instrument  
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3 Musical Elements   Rhythm, Melody, Harmony  
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rhythm   ordered flow of music through time  
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beat   pulse  
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Parts of rhythm   beat, meter, measures, time signature  
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meter   organization of beats into regular groups/ beats per measure  
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measures   units of organized beats  
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downbeat   first beat of each group  
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melody   series of notes that add up tp a recognizable whole  
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harmony   depth - vertical element  
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cadence   punctuation in music that allows the melody and harmony to sound complete  
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musical form   organization of musical ideas in time  
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4 Parts of Orchestra   Strings, Woodwind, Brass(wind), Percussion  
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4 Parts of Choir   Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass  
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monophonic   one single melodic line/ one note at a time  
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homophonic   one melodic line w/ chords and harmony  
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polyphony   two or more melodies played at same time  
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syllabic   one syllable for every note  
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melismatic   one syllable of text and a lot of notes  
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Kyrie   only greek text in Roman Catholic liturgy  
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5 parts of Ordinary section   Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei  
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troubadours   sing love songs  
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strophic form   repeating a formal section of music in a song  
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through composed form   non-repeating of sections in a song  
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400 to 1350 CE   Middle Ages Period  
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640 CE   Pope Gregory I began writing music  
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725 CE   Pope Gregory II continues progression of writing music  
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starts in plainchant and ends in gregorian chant   The Middle ages startes with what type of music and ended with what?  
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neumes   earliest form of written chanting  
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Hildegard of Bingen   early female composer of sacred music/ monophonic and written in unmeasured rhythms  
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Leonin and Perotin   created earliest polyphonic works that had unmeasured rhythm - involved in sacred music  
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organa   two melodies moving at same time with unmeasured rhythm  
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Guillaume de Machaut   wrote one of the earliest polyphonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass  
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Secular music   was non-religious and couuld be written in the vernacular instead of Latin  
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secular music songs by troubadours   their music was strophic in form and monophonic  
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motet   second set of words added to the chant  
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1351 to 1600   Renaissance period  
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Josquin des Prez   composed Ave Maria and wrote many sacred motets during renaissance period  
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Giovanni Palestrina   during Renaissance period helped stopped church from abandoning polyphony texture of music  
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Madrigal   principle form of secular music during the Renaissance - a poem set to music - present in Italy and England  
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Chanson   Renaissance period songs in France that were essentially homophonic  
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ayres   lute songs in renaissance  
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Lied   german form of Madrigal  
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Praetorius   german composer of late renaissance who wrote many chorales  
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