Mus Appreciation Test 2

Josquin des Prez

450/1455 - 27 August 1521), often referred to simply as Josquin, was a Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance

Madrigalism

A term used to describe the illustrative devices used particularly in madrigals. This includes text painting, for example: changing the texture, tone, range, or volume to musically depict what the text is describing.

Estampie

Medieval dance style, monophonic texture (could be called homophonic), pipe and strings play the same main melody, rhythmic drones sound out rhythm, Very heavy beat. pipe and psaltery

Alleluia: Vidimus stellam

No composer, Gregorian Chant, ABA format, Written in Latin, Monophony, Only Melody, Step note progression, Very Wide note range, Melismistic (multiple tones per syllable), Unison (many voices singing one note at the same time), No beat

racket

Sausage Bassoon is a Renaissance-era introduced late in the sixteenth century and already superseded by bassoons at the end of the seventeeth century double reed wind instrument.

Cornett

a brass instrument very similar to the trumpet, distinguished by its conical bore, compact shape, and mellower tone quality

Mass

a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of theCatholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism) to music.

Estampie

a medieval dance and musical form, it was a popular instrumental and vocal form in the 13th and 14th centuries

Crumhorn

a musical instrument of the woodwind family, most commonly used during the Renaissanceperiod.

harp

a musical instrument, roughly triangular in shape, consisting of a frame supporting a graduated series of parallel strings, played by plucking with the fingers. The modern orchestral harp has an upright frame, with pedals that enable the strings to be retuned to different keys

Chromatic

a musical scale with twelve pitches, each a semitone above or below another

Troubadours

a poet-musician of the courtly art of vernacular sung poetry that developed in the Middle Ages in southern France

sackbut

a type of trombone from the Renaissance and Baroque eras, characterised by a telescopic slide that is used to vary the length of the tube to change pitch. Unlike the earlier slide trumpet from which it evolved, the sackbut possesses a double slide, which allows for playing scales in a lower range

Recorder

a woodwind musical instrument in the flute family

Hildegaard von Bingen

also known as Saint Hildegard and Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath.[1] She is considered to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany

Thomas Weelkes

an English composer and organist. He became organist of Winchester College in 1598, moving to Chichester Cathedral. His works are chiefly vocal, and include madrigals, anthems and services.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition.[2] He had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony

Jongleurs

an itinerant medieval entertainer proficient in juggling, acrobatics,music, and recitation

Melisma

an ornamental phrase of several notes sung to one syllable of text, asin plainsong or blues singing

Lute

any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back, or more specifically to an instrument from the family of European lutes

Hautbois

are a family of double reed woodwind musical instruments

Gregorian chant

church music sung as a single vocal line in free rhythm and a restricted scale (plainsong), in a style developed for the medieval Latin liturgy.

Organum

early polyphony of the late Middle Ages that consists of one or more voice parts accompanying the cantus firmus often in parallel motion at a fourth, fifth, or octave above or below; also : a composition in this style.

Viol

he standard modern violin family consists of the violin, viola, cello, and double bass.

Motet

is a highly varied choral musicalcomposition. was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music.

Ave Maria

made for 4 voices, has a feeling of continuous flow is created by overlapping, the opening section like many other sections uses polyphonic imitation: a technique typical of the period

As Vesta Was Descending

madrigal Period Renaissance Composer Thomas Weelkes (English composer) Texture 5-part polyphony alternating with homophony Pitch modal but sounding very major Color vocal, a capella Form madrigal

Guilleaume de Machaut

medieval French poet and composer from 1300's, helped start the ars nova movement

Madrigal

secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras.

Counterpoint

the art or technique of setting, writing, or playing a melody or melodies in conjunction with another, according to fixed rules.

serpent

the bass wind instrument, descended from the cornett, and a distant ancestor of the tuba, with a mouthpiece like a brass instrument but side holes like a woodwind. It is usually a long cone bent into a snakelike shape, hence the name.

Shawm

the most important double reed instrument of the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Monophonic

the simplest of musical textures, consisting of a melody (or "tune"), typically sung by a single singer or played by a single instrument player (e.g., a flute player) without accompanyingharmony or chords

Polyphony

the style of simultaneously combining a number of parts, each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other

Orlandus Lassus

was a Netherlandish or Franco-Flemish composer of the late Renaissance. He is today considered to be the chief representative of the mature polyphonic style of the Franco-Flemish school, and one of the three most famous and influential musicians in Europe at the end of the 16th century

Agnus Dei from Notre Dame Mass

written by Machaut, genera is mass, part of the 4 voice polyphonic setting of Mass, performed in Latin, ABA format, triple meter with allot of syncapation, Melismistic(multiple tones per syllable), based of Gregorian Chant.