IB Music HL: Middle Ages Vocab

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Chapters 14 - 16

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rondeau / ballade / virelai

  • the love poem forms

  • established the repetition theme

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chanson

  • courtly love poem writing

  • often included palindromic form

  • had puzzles and riddles hidden within the music

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ars antiqua

  • what was replaced by ars nova

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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

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trouveres

  • poets / musicians in the north of France

  • both south and north are inventors of love songs and chronicles of the crusades

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troubadours

  • inventors in the south of france are poets / musicians

  • both south and north are inventors of love songs and chronicles of the crusades

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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

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organum

  • early form of polyphony

  • paris’s cathedral of notre dame was a center for this

  • based on preexisting chants

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polyphony

  • combination of two or more simultaneous melodic lines

  • originally improvised and eventually notated

  • featured in traditional music

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islamic chant

  • christian music themes

  • idea of plainchant music types

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sung worship

  • shared feature among many world cultures

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acapella

  • voices only

  • no instrument accompaniment

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melismatic

  • several distinct pitches assigned to a single syllable

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neume

  • a symbol that notates two to four notes in the same syllable

  • each syllable is sung for two to four notes

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neumatic

  • when one syllable of chant is one neume

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syllabic

  • when the syllables of a word represent an individual musical note

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modes

  • a series of seven musical scales

  • two half steps

  • five whole steps.

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plainchant

  • AKA: chant

  • monophonic nonmetric melody set in one of the church modes / scales

  • early Christian church music

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