Basic Musical Terms and Medieval & Renaissance Composers

Mass

dominant

range

contour

Farmer

Ordinary

Proper

plainchant

genre

conjunct

disjunct

scale

chord

octave

Perotin

monophony

texture

polyphony

pizzicato

Divine Office

piano
(p)

forte
(f)

a cappella

accelerando

crescendo

decrescendo

consonance

dissonance

Minnesinger

mezzo piano
(mp)

mezzo forte
(mf)

motet

melismatic

organum

orchestra

madrigal

tonic

troubadour

trouvere

trobaritz

syllabic

neumatic

Hildegard of Bingen

Machaut

Josquin dez Perez

Giovanni da Palestrina

Arcadelt

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