Music App. Mid Term

Art form in which singers and musicians perform & dramtic work combining

Late renaissance singer and choir master. Most reverend composer of the renassiance

The high point of a melody or of a section music 

Involves the only one melody of real interest, combined with chords and other subsidiary sounds

The accenting of certain beats of the meter that are ordinary unaccented

Genre of African American music of the early 1950's, forerunner of rock

Originally expressed by melody but not always

what are the dates for the medieval era\?

The aspect of music having to do with the duration of notes in time

Make a period of art, a composer, a group of works or an individual work distinctive

The notes or chords ending in a section of music with a feeling or conclusiveness

a series of fragments identical except for their placement at sucessively higher or lower pitch

music setting of the ordinary of the mass that uses as its bases an elaborated version....

A musical illistration of the meaning of a word or short verbal phrase

A genre of french secular music. Used isorhythmic techniques

The system of prayers and worship of a particular religion

The simultaneuos sounding of different pitches or melodies

The earliest genre of medieval polyphonic music. Developed by Leonin and Perotin

Type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range is equvialent

Which band is known for leading the british musical invasion?

Composition with a text more or less dramatic in character and usually based upon religious..

In music, the unit of meter, consisting of a principal string beat and one or more weaker beats

A staely court dance by couples that was introduces from the southern europe into england..

Write an entire piece to write one movement of a large piece

Music that was developed in america outside the european concert music tradition

Musical texture in which two or more melodic lines are played or sung 

A mechanical or electrical device that ticks out beats at any desired tempo

A background of stressed and unstressed beats in simple, regular, repeating pattern

Changes of tonic or the home pitch, within one piece of music

genre of African American choral church music associated with the blues

A polyphonic musical texture in which the various melodic lines are approx the same themes

A short passage of imitative polyphony based on a single theme

What are the dates of the renassiance?

Simple anthems based on hymns, with a little counterpoint 

Intervals or chords that sounds relatively tense and unstable

The speed of music

Travelling court poet musicians

was an italian composer sambist, singer, and Roman Catholic Priest

The volume of sound, the loudness or softness of muscial passage

 an instrumental dance from the middle ages

Also called basso ostinato short, recurring melodic pattern in the bass

A solemn dance in duple meter

At type of big band jazz of the late 1930's and 1940's

italian Baroque composer

a scared vocal composition., polyphonic choral work

a 19th century type of light opera, employing spoken dialogue between musical numbers

Which composer to set words to music for singers to perform

Main Roman Catholic.l consisted of 5 large sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

Contrapuntal compositional technique in two or more vocies

A style of american popular music around 1900 , usually for piano, which led to jazz

A type of African American vernacular music,used in jazz, rhythm and blues,rock and styles

The high point of a melody or of a section of music

Generally refers to a type of scale

A type of variety show popular in the 19th century america, performed in blackface

Composing the technique known as the " point of imitation" in kyrie from his " Panga lingua Mas

His most popular madrigal " As Vesta Was" contains a lot of word panting

Composed the " Pope Marcellus Mass"(1557), which made him the most revered composer of the ren.

Flourishes that are not necessary to carry the overall line of the melody

A faster dance triple metter

The regular pulse underlying most music, the basic unit of measurement for time in music

A rhythmically free vocal styles that imitates the natural inflections of speech

A group of pitches played and heard simultaneously

Gregorian chant uaccompanied monophonic music without fixed rhythm or meter

In chant, the main pitch on which the text was sung

The main pitch on which the text was sung

A musical texture involving a single melodic line

Intervals or chords that sound relatively stable and free of tension

The main secular vocal genre of the Renassiance