France, Italy, and Late Medieval Music

Italy

Italy

________ was a collection of isolated city- states, each with a totally different culture and tradition.

polyphonic ballades

Music consisted mainly of ________, rondeaux, and virelais.

balladethe ars

There are three formes fixes of the fourteenth century that establish patterns for both the music and poetry: the virelai, rondeau, and ________ nova in france.

Fauvel

________ symbolizes world turned upside down.

Color

________: same concept but a recurring melody segment.

Jacques de liege

________- objected to imperfect duple division and use of syncopation.

Talea

________ can be marked with roman numerals at the start of each one.

Fourteenth century

________ saw people begin to separate science from religion and church from state and become creative (literacy, painting, secular music)

Melismas

________ are florid in the upper voices but devoid of syncopation.

Melismatic passages

________ decorate the ends and sometimes beginnings of lines, end of every line is marked by a cadence (landini cadence)

Isorhythm

________: equal rhythm; tenors laid out in segments of identical rhythm.

Contratenor shares

________ the same range as tenor and is also isorhythmic but has its own talea.

Strict canon

________ is set to lively, graphically descriptive words.

Hocket

________: two voices alternate in rapid succession, one resting while the other sings.

Tenor cantus firmus

________ is the melody, divided into taleae of different lengths for each section.

Tenor

________ is longer, rhythms more complex, whole line moves so slowly in comparison to upper voices that it is more of a foundation than a melody.

Philippe de vitry

________ wrote at least five motets in the roman de fauvel, using isorhythm.

italian music

French and ________ of the late fourteenth century became more refined and complex to cater to the tastes of increasingly polished performers and educated elite.

Thirteenth century ballate

________ were monophonic dance songs with choral refrains.

Flamboyant music

________ has flamboyant manuscript with lots of decorations.

fourteenth century

Fixed forms (formes fixes) apply to secular music of the ________.