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

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