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rondeau / ballade / virelai
the love poem forms
established the repetition theme
chanson
courtly love poem writing
often included palindromic form
had puzzles and riddles hidden within the music
ars antiqua
what was replaced by ars nova
ars nova
AKA: new art
a musical style in the early 1300s in france and italy
notable composer is Guilaume de Machaut
notable styles: chansons rondeau ballade and virelai
trouveres
poets / musicians in the north of France
both south and north are inventors of love songs and chronicles of the crusades
troubadours
inventors in the south of france are poets / musicians
both south and north are inventors of love songs and chronicles of the crusades
rhythmic mode
fixed pattern of long of short notes that is repeated to varied
two three or four voice parts sung in fixed rhythmic patterns
organum
early form of polyphony
paris’s cathedral of notre dame was a center for this
based on preexisting chants
polyphony
combination of two or more simultaneous melodic lines
originally improvised and eventually notated
featured in traditional music
islamic chant
christian music themes
idea of plainchant music types
sung worship
shared feature among many world cultures
acapella
voices only
no instrument accompaniment
melismatic
several distinct pitches assigned to a single syllable
neume
a symbol that notates two to four notes in the same syllable
each syllable is sung for two to four notes
neumatic
when one syllable of chant is one neume
syllabic
when the syllables of a word represent an individual musical note
modes
a series of seven musical scales
two half steps
five whole steps.
plainchant
AKA: chant
monophonic nonmetric melody set in one of the church modes / scales
early Christian church music
