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| Question | Answer |
| Mass | central service of the Catholic Church; sacred music |
| dominant | the fifth scale step |
| range | distance between the highest and lowest tones of a melody, an instrument, or a voice |
| contour | the overall shape of a melodic line; ascending, descending, arch, wave |
| Farmer | English madrigal; Fair Phyllis |
| Ordinary | texts that remain the same in every Mass |
| Proper | texts that vary in the Mass from day to day |
| plainchant | AKA Gregorian plainchant or plainsong; consists of a single line melody, monophonic in texture, lacking harmony and counterpoint |
| genre | categories of repertory |
| conjunct | a smooth, connected melody with many leaps |
| disjunct | a disconnected melody with many leaps |
| scale | series of tones in ascending or descending order; diatonic or chromatic |
| chord | simultaneous combination of three or more tones that constitute a single block of harmony |
| octave | interval between tones 7 diatonic pitches apart; the lower note vibrates half as fast as the upper |
| Perotin | French composer at the Notre Dame school; composed organum |
| monophony | single-voiced; no harmonic accompaniment |
| texture | musical fabric; ex. monophony or polyphony |
| polyphony | many-voiced composition; two or more different melodic lines are combined |
| pizzicato | performance direction to pluck a string of a bow instrument with a finger |
| Divine Office | cycle of the daily services of the Roman Catholic Church distinct from the Mass |
| piano (p) | soft |
| forte (f) | loud |
| a cappella | choral music performed without instrumental accompaniment |
| accelerando | getting faster |
| crescendo | growing louder |
| decrescendo | growing softer |
| consonance | concordant or harmonious combination of tones that provides a sense of relaxation and stability in music; notes are right next to each other |
| dissonance | combination of tones that sound discordant and unstable; notes are not next to each other |
| Minnesinger | late medieval German poet-musicians |
| mezzo piano (mp) | moderately soft |
| mezzo forte (mf) | moderately loud |
| motet | polyphonic vocal genre; secular in the Middle Ages and sacred thereafter |
| melismatic | melodic style characterized by by many notes sung to a single text syllable |
| organum | earliest kind of polyphonic music, which developed from the custom of adding voices to plainchant that at first ran parallel to it |
| orchestra | performing group of diverse instruments in various cultures; in Western music, an ensemble of various woodwinds, brass, and percussion instruments |
| madrigal | Renaissance secular music originating from Italy for voices, with or without musical accompaniment, set to a short, lyric love poem |
| tonic | first note of the scale or key; keynote |
| troubadour | Medieval musician-poets in southern France |
| trouvere | Medieval musician-poet in northern France |
| trobaritz | female troubadours, composer-poets in Southern France |
| syllabic | melodic style with one note to each syllable of text |
| neumatic | melodic style with two or four notes set to each syllable |
| Hildegard of Bingen | Middle Age sacred monophonic composer; Alleluia, O virga mediatriax |
| Machaut | chanson composer in France; Puis qu'en oubli |
| Josquin dez Perez | Renaissance motet composer in Italy; Ave Maria...virgo serena |
| Giovanni da Palestrina | Italian polyphonic composer; Pope Marcellus Mass, Gloria |
| Arcadelt | composer of Italian madrigal; Il bianco e dolce cigno |
| Susato | composer of Danserye; composed Three Dances |
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