Renaissance musicians Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Medieval musical period - After fall of Rome 476 - 1300s Monophonic chant - Medieval. Single unison melodic line. Somber religious chants called plainchant or plainsong. Gregorian chants too. When other voices added, they moved parallel to the main voice. Cantus firmus - Main melody in a chant Motet - Medieval. Evolved from monophonic chant. Adding additional parts against main cantus firmus. Popular by 1200s. Continued through Bach. Organum - Medieval. Evolved from plainchant. Means addi...

Medieval musical period - After fall of Rome 476 - 1300s Monophonic chant - Medieval. Single unison melodic line. Somber religious chants called plainchant or plainsong. Gregorian chants too. When other voices added, they moved parallel to the main voice. Cantus firmus - Main melody in a chant Motet - Medieval. Evolved from monophonic chant. Adding additional parts against main cantus firmus. Popular by 1200s. Continued through Bach. Organum - Medieval. Evolved from plainchant. Means addi...

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Medieval Era - 500-1450 Gregoarian Chant, masses, troubadours, no distinct meter, monophonic, organum, drone accompaniment, motet Machaut's Mess De Notre Dame - wrote the first mass in Medieval Era Sections of the mass in order - Kyrie Gloria Credo Sanctus Benedictus Agnus Dei Medieval Motet VS Renaissance Motet - Medieval: a tenor line derived from plainchant with one or more upper voices in french or latin. Usually had a short, repeated rhythmic pattern Renaissance: polyphon...

Italy is on the southern side of what mountain range? correct answers the Alps What sea lies to the east of Italy? correct answers the Adriatic Sea What sea lies to the west of Italy? correct answers the Mediterranean Which mountains form the backbone of the Italian peninsula? correct answers the Apennine Mountains Where does about one-sixth of Italy's agricultural production occur? correct answers in the Po river valley What types of cereal crops are grown in Italy, namely in th...

Music Content Knowledge (5113) Praxis II Exam Latest 2023 Graded A Characteristics of Medieval Era Dominated by vocal music. Sacred Music: Gregorian Chant and Masses. Secular Music: for dance and entertainment (Troubadours/Trouvères) Gregorian Chant melodies that were free flowing with no distinct meter, melismatic, largely monophonic, and sung by unaccompanied voice or choir Organum an early form of polyphony in which voices are sung in parallel motion Masses important religious ritual and ...

MoCA Study Guide (2023/2024) Already Graded A Ostinato repeated rhythmic pattern Descant above all of the others Figuration same as diminution; method of embellishment Imitation imitating of the same melodic line in several different voices Motet 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 trope...

Baroque Music ()Two Giants of baroque composition - correct answer George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach (Bach's death in 1750 marks death of the period) Opera - correct answer drama sung to orchestral accompaniment; melodic lines imitated the rhythms and inflections of speech Early baroque composers favored... - correct answer homophonic texture (unlike the renaissance); characterizes early period; by the latter period they favored pholyphonic texture Tonal basis of most c...

Baroque Music ()Two Giants of baroque composition - correct answer George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach (Bach's death in 1750 marks death of the period) Opera - correct answer drama sung to orchestral accompaniment; melodic lines imitated the rhythms and inflections of speech Early baroque composers favored... - correct answer homophonic texture (unlike the renaissance); characterizes early period; by the latter period they favored pholyphonic texture Tonal basis of most c...

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