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What were the three things the Council of Trent did not like? Noisy instruments, theatrical singing, secular tunes 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
What are the characteristics of Renaissance music? Word painting, a cappella, gentle flow of rhythm, scale oriented melody, polyphonic texture 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
What did the School of Notre Dame invent? measured rhythm (grouping beats into measures) 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
What is the mass where the text remains the same from day to day throughout most of the church year? mass ordinary 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
What influenced Renaissance music? Humanism (focus on present, not on afterlife) 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
What influenced Medieval music? sacred: Roman Catholic church

secular: love and dance
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Mastered polychoral motet Giovanni Gabrieli 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
Only wrote Catholic church music Giovanni Palestrina 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
Did secular and sacred works, many masses, motets, secular vocal works Josquin Desprez 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
Founded School of Notre Dame Leonin and Perotin 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
Traveling performers, sang of love and dances Troubadours and trouvères 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
nun composer of sacred songs Hildegard of Bingen 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
Reorganized the Catholic liturgy during his reign, Gregorian chants are named after him Pope Gregory I 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
multiple choruses polychoral 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
a collection of over 300 instrumental dance tunes collected and arranged by Michael Praetorius terpischore 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
triple meter galliard 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
a dance-like song for several voices; simpler than the madrigal; homophonic; melody in top voice; fa-la-la in refrain ballet 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
a piece for several sole voices set to a short poem, usually about love madrigal 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text; not a mass motet 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
choral music without instrumental accompaniment a cappella 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
musical representation of specific poetic images word painting 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
musical notation neumes 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
several notes sung to one syllable of text melismatic 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
having each syllable sung to one note only syllabic 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
"fixed chant"; original gregorian chant line, founded bass line of organum cantus firmus 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
gregorian chant with one or more additional melodic lines added above it organum 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:32 GMT view revision history
one syllable of text to one neume neumatic 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:31 GMT view revision history
melody set to sacred Latin texts and sung without accompaniment gregorian chant 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:31 GMT view revision history
long, sustained tone or tones accompanying a melody drone 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:31 GMT view revision history
scales containing seven notes with an eighth note duplicating the first an octave higher church modes 0 itsgoindown Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:40:31 GMT view revision history

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