MUS 101 Chapter 14

Listening: Raimbaut de Vaqueiras: The first of May

Date: Late 12th century Genre: Estampie Melody: conjunct Meter:Triple Texture: Monophonic Performance: solo voice with early violin, drums, guitar

carol

English medieval strophic song with a refrain repeated after each stanza; now associated with Christmas.

Ars nova

Fourteenth-century French polyphonic musical style whose themes moved increasingly from religious to secular.

chanson

French monophonic or polyphonic song, especially of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, set to either courtly or popular poetry.

ballade

French poetic form and chanson type of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, with courtly love texts. Also a Romantic genre, especially a lyric piano piece.

Minnesingers

Late medieval German poet-musicians.

virelai

Medieval and Renaissance fixed poetic form and chanson type with French courtly texts.

rondeau

Medieval and Renaissance fixed poetic form and chanson type with courtly love texts.

haut

Medieval category of loud instruments, used mainly for outdoor occasions, as distinct from bas, or soft, instruments.

bas

Medieval category of soft instruments, used mainly for indoor occasions, as distinct from haut, or loud, instruments.

trouveres

Medieval poet-musicians in northern France.

troubadours

Medieval poet-musicians in southern France.

estampie

dance form prevalent in late medieval France, either with voice or purely instrumental.