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Quiz :Ostinato - Answer :repeated rhythmic pattern
Quiz :Descant - Answer :above all of the others
Quiz :Figuration - Answer :same as diminution; method of embellishment
Quiz :Imitation - Answer :imitating of the same melodic line in several
different voices
Quiz :Motet - Answer :created in the early 13th century by musicians at Notre
Dame by adding newly written Latin words to the upper voices of descant
clausulae, analogous to the way earlier musicians had added texts to chant
melismas to create sequences and textual tropes
Quiz :Organum - Answer :2 or more voices singing different notes in agreeable
combinations according to given rules
Quiz :Conductus - Answer :settings of 2-4 voices of the same types of text
used in the closely related genres of monophonic conductus and Aquitanian
verses: rhymed, rhythmic, strophic Latin poems, rarely taken from the liturgy
through usually on a sacred or serious topic
Quiz :Plainsong - Answer :Gregorian Chant, monophonic, sung in unison
Quiz :Chorale - Answer :most important form of music in the Lutheran
Church, was a congregational hymn that was sang during each service, aimed
to increase worship participation
Quiz :Pavane - Answer :type of dance in 16th century Italy; generally paired
with the galliard; was a stately dance in three repeated strains (AABBCC)
Quiz :Madrigal - Answer :-Renaissance Period
-enriches the meaning and impact of the text through the music setting
-composers explored new effects of declamation, imagery, expressivity,
characterization, and dramatization
-Based off of poems
-Through-composed
, -Subject matter was sentimental or erotic and were a form of social play
-intended for both voices and instruments
Quiz :Fantasia - Answer :Fugal piece in continuous imitative counterpoint
(similar to a fugue)
Quiz :Toccata - Answer :keyboard or lute piece in an improvatory style; played
on the harpsichord (as chamber music) or the organ (as service music).
Composer: Frescobaldi
Quiz :Fugue - Answer :Used during the Baroque period; a piece in which each
voice states a short theme (the subject) in turn, after which it tossed about
among the voices, fragmented, and developed
Quiz :Allemande - Answer :a musical composition or movement (as in a
baroque suite) in moderate tempo and duple or quadruple time
Quiz :March - Answer :meter of 2
Quiz :Legato - Answer :smooth; flowing
Quiz :Pesante - Answer :heavily
Quiz :Calando - Answer :softer and usually slower
Quiz :Dolente - Answer :mournful, pathetic
Quiz :Dal segno - Answer :from the sign
Quiz :Divertimento - Answer :a light and entertaining composition, typically
one in the form of a suite for chamber orchestra
Quiz :Diminuendo - Answer :Decrescendo
Quiz :Dolce - Answer :sweetly
Quiz :Allegro - Answer :fast, lively
Quiz :Moderato - Answer :in moderate time
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