Late Middle Ages - Music MTEL

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Across
  1. 2. forme fixe, AB aAab AB
  2. 5. A brief movement in the 1300s that emphasized complex notation that was hard to understand
  3. 6. one-movement instrumental piece with lyrical and dramatic narrative qualities reminiscent of such a song setting
  4. 7. music that’s repeated with different words
  5. 9. Wrote 23 motets, pioneered isorhythmic technique
  6. 13. Developed by Franco of Cologne,Added rhythmic notation based on divisions of three, which looks similar to notation today
Down
  1. 1. Secular music in a strophic form
  2. 3. 9-14 surviving motets
  3. 4. secular Italian music with repeated three-line stanzas, and a ritornello at the end set to different music. Very melismatic
  4. 8. Lower instrumental part with two higher vocal parts. Irregular form, sometimes with a ritornello.
  5. 10. Began as music independent from the Liturgy. Made with an existing chant in the tenor voice, with new material in upper voices. Polyphonic texture, can be isorhythmic, meaning with a repeated rhythm in at least the tenor voice.
  6. 11. A sort of “time signature” showing divisions and beats. Half-circle was 2 beats, full-circle was 3 beats. Empty circle was duple meter, circle with dot was triple meter
  7. 12. Italian composer, focused on Balatta. Blind since childhood. Only his secular music has survived