Civ Music Genres and Forms!

a composition for choir or larger  chorus setting a religious, devotional,  or solemn text; often sung a cappella 

this genre is a useful vehicle for religious music in the church; it is a multi-movement, sacred work, lasting 20-30 min

the central religious service of  the Roman Catholic Church, one  that incorporates singing for spiritual reflection

a song in the local language that  marked Christmas, Easter, or even  a military victory and uses strophic form

this genre is essentially a stage play expressed through music, means literally “a work,” & demands singers who can act

the name given to the early  polyphony of the Western Church from the ninth through the thirteenth centuries 

A contrapuntal form in which individual voices enter & each duplicates exactly  the melody that the first voice played

this genre is an introductory movement, usually for orchestra, that precedes an opera, oratorio, or dance suite

A specific genre of songs/lyrical poems performed in regional vernacular, by Troubadors and Trouvères

a Polyphonic song of social art for both men and women. A Secular piece for several solo voices in Vernacular language

a popular dance genre around the mid-sixteenth century; one was slow & gliding, in duple meter

this musical form with at least three statements of the refrain and at least two contrasting sections

a genre sung in a hall or chapel used specifically for prayer, is intended to inspire the faithful to greater devotion

musical form that originated in the Baroque, comes from the Latin meaning “flight”, where 1 to 4 voices present a theme

this genre is the opening the musical-dramatic productions in the French Court it consists of two sections

a French term used broadly to  indicate a lyrical song from the Middle Ages into the twentieth century 

this musical form exhibits no obvious repetitions or overt musical form from beginning to end 

this genre is a composition where a small group of soloists works together, against the full orchestra

this genre is composed for listening not for dancing and means “a succession of things”; it usually has 2 to 7 pieces

this genre means “serious opera”, has three long acts, chronicles the triumphs and tragedies of kings, queens, and gods

instrumental genre from the latin “Concertare”, marked by a friendly competition between a soloist & the orchestra

A Madrigal for instrumentalists and a new genre of music in the Renaissance that used a six-string instrument

The official music of the catholic church during the Middle Ages; a unique collection of thousands of religious songs

German word for hymns of the Lutheran Church which are simple, mostly monophonic/lightly polyphonic religious melodies