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Church music

Motet and mass choral music

Chanson

Songs in renaissance period

Counter reformation

Led to Jesuit order (1540) later assemblies counsel of treat = peace

Dance music

Composed for popular dances

Madrigal

Musical pieces for several solo voices set to short poems

Motet

Sacred Latin text

Reformation

Division of practices with cholic churchs martin Luther led started Protestant church

Word painting

Poetic images musically rapid sounds -running

Aria

Music with multiple choirs call and respond

Basso continuo

Continuos harmony through music usually by harp or cello

Cantata

Church choir from baroque period

Isolist, choir and orchestra

Concerto

Musical composition tor solo and orchestra

Fugue

Form written in an imative contrapuntal style in multiple parts

Homophony

Music where the melody is supported by choir in the same rhythm

Libretto

Text or words of opera

Melisma

More than 1 note sung during one syllable of the text

Movement

Indecent sections or piece of large work

Opera

Staged musical drama for voices and orchestra

Oratorio

Work with religious characters tor solo voices uses nothing extra

Polyphony

Two or more Melodie voices or instruments together

Program music

Instrumental music written to snow non-music ideas

Solo

Musician with or without accompany

Sonata

Musical composition in multiple movements for solo instruments

Subject

Main melody or tune of a fugue

Suite

Multi-movement composition of baroque music

Terraced dynamics

Set volume for certain section

Through composed

New music is composed in each stanza with no repetion

Joaquin des prez

Master of choral music

William Byrd

Used many tools in his art

Martin Luther

Catholic priest father of Protestant reform

Giovanni Palestrina

Italian composer* Director at St. Peters cathedral

Antino Vivaldi

Italian composer baroque period

Claudio Monteverdi

Italian composer and earlier opera pioneers *famous for operaorfero(607)

Handle

Started own opera tailed in 1728

Johann Bach

Keyboard and orchestral work

Renaissance

Rebirth