Middle Ages and Renaissance
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- Plainchant
- melodies designated for religious texts to be sung at services widely known as Gregorian chant after pope
- Medieval Modes
- scale organized aroung D,E,F, or G different arrangements of half steps and whole steps
- Gregorian Recitation
- No meter, Modal the pitch on which the text is sung
- Antiphon
- More elaborate genre of plainchant More pitch and note changes
- Sequence
- More elaborate kind of meloy then antiphon series of short tunes sung twice with some variation
- Troubadors
- poet composers who performed in the south of France stricter tempo secular
- Trouveres
- poet composers who performed in the North of France
- Minnesingers
- poet composers who also performed in Germany
- Estampies
- one line pieces same or similar musical pieces are repeated many times in varied forms Dance Music Instrumental
- Hocket
- point in each stanza where there are fast echoes between the soprano and alto
- Paraphrase
- embllished chants with extra notes Fill in the gaps with more notes
- Dufay
- famous for the mass ave maris stella
- Chansons
- simpler, gentler style for polyphonic songs
- pneumatic
- no variation
- melezematic
- elaborated
- Motet
- Melodic lines are different but fit together non-imitative polyphony
- Organum
- in triple meter
- Josquin
- Finalized the mass
- Madrigal
- Pays attention to verbal texts ex: downward scale on word descending secular, usually about love one stanza, polyphony