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- cornetto
- bas instrument, woodwind family, hybrid of clarinet and trumpet
- chanson
- french term used broadly to indicate a lyrical song from the middle ages to the 20th century
- gregorian chant
- a large body of unaccompanied monophonic vocal music, set to latin texts, composed for the western church over the course of 15 centuries
- hauts instrument
- loud instruments. trumpets, sackbut, shawm and drums
- melismatic singing
- many musical pitches set to one syllable of text
- ordinary of the mass
- the five sung portions of the mass for which the texts are unvariable. they are sung for every mass
- organum
- the name given to the early polyphony of the western church form the 9th through 13th centuries
- plainsong
- another word for gregorian chant
- proper of the mass
- the sections the Mass that are sung to the texts that vary with each feast day
- quadrivium
- a ciriculum of 4 scientific disciplines taught in medieval schools and universities
- sackbut
- precursor to the trombone. brass family haut instrument
- shawm
- precursor to the oboe. woodwind family haut instrument
- syllabic singing
- one musical pitch set to each syllable of text
- trivium
- a literary curriculum of three disciplines taught in mideval schools and universities
- trobairitz
- female troubadours
- troubadour
- secular poet-musicians from the south of france during the 12-13th centuries
- trouvere
- secular poet-musicians from the south of france during the 13-14th centuries
- minnesinger
- secular poet-musicians from Germany during the 12-14th centuries
- castato
- a boy or adult singer who had been castrated to keep his voice from changing so that it would remain in the soprano register
- council of trent
- a gathering of bishops and cardinals to debate many aspects of church reform
- counter-reformation
- the church's response to the protestant reformation. resulted in the council of trent
- humanism
- the belief that people have the capacity to shape their world, to create many things good and beautiful that they are something more than a mere conduit for gifts descending from heaven
- imitation
- the process by which one or more musical voices, or parts, enter and duplicate exactly for a period of time the music presented by the previous voice
- madrigal
- a popular genre of secular vocal music that originated in italy during the renaissance, in which usually four or five voices sing love poems.
- madrigalism
- a device originating in the madrigal, by which key words in a text spark a particularly expressive musical setting. sad=chromatic descending motion Aris = notes go up
- motet
- a composition for choir or larger chorus setting a religious, devotional or solemn text, often sung a cappella. so voices will still be segregated. text may vary away from biblical verse but the sacred function remains
- sistine chapel
- the pope's private place of devotional worship
- word painting
- the process of depicting the text in music, be it subtly, overtly, or even jokingly, by means of expressive musical devices