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Quiz #2
Question | Answer |
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Renaissance | rebirth of ancient Greek ideas, ideals, values; |
Renaissance cont'd | particularly classical literature and visual arts implies dual concepts of novelty and revival term was NOT applied to historical period until 1855, when it was coined by a French historian (Jules Michelet) |
Contenance Angloise | English guise of quality |
Faburden | English style of improvised polyphony |
Burgundian chanson | |
mass cycle | polyphonic setting of all sections of the Ordinary of the Mass |
cantus firmus | (Latin for “fixed melody”; i.e. quoted melody) |
head motive | newly-composed contrapuntal passage quoted at beginning of each movement of a cantus-firmus mass |
cantus-firmus mass | polyphonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass (mass cycle) that is unified by the same borrowed melody quoted throughout |
paraphrase mass | Chant, used in all four voices, paraphrased and with notes added. Imitative with some homophonic passages as main texture |
point of imitation | passage in a polyphonic work in which two or more parts enter in imitation |
paired imitation | |
imitative texture | successive entries of the same motive or musical phrase |
homophonic texture | musical texture in which all voices move together in essentially the same rhythm as distinct from polyphony or heterophony |
polyphonic texture | music or musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody |
anthem | characteristic genre of the Anglican church; sung to English text taken from Bible or newly invented; includes no pre-existent music; sung by the choir (not the congregation) |
Full anthem | English equivalent of a motet; choral genre, sung by the choir, usually unaccompanied |
Verse anthem | solo voice (or voices) accompanied by instrument (organ or viol consort) alternates with full choir doubled by same instruments |