Medieval Music

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  1. 3. French composer who wrote in Ars Nova style and composed chansons motets and the first complete setting of the Mass Ordinary
  2. 5. the quality created by the combination of the different elements in a work of music
  3. 8. Painting the musical technique of composing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song's lyrics or story elements in programmatic music
  4. 10. monk whose was among the first to discuss polyphony
  5. 13. German music theorist who wrote Ars Cantus Mensurabilis
  6. 15. the structure of a musical composition or performance
  7. 16. Songs music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing
  8. 18. a medieval singer or musician especially one who sang or recited lyric or heroic poetry to a musical accompaniment for the nobility
  9. 19. an existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition
  10. 22. period of European history for 5th to 15th century
  11. 25. blind organist and composer was a leading figure in the Italian Trecento style
  12. 27. the new art
  13. 29. Italian music form from the 13th century AbbaA
  14. 30. is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular
  15. 31. 13th century music treatise
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  1. 1. a form of early polyphony based on an existing plainsong
  2. 2. nun, philosopher, and composer
  3. 4. English composer began using the triadic sound of the Renaissance
  4. 6. the combination of qualities expected of an ideal knight especially courage honor courtesy justice and a readiness to help the weak
  5. 7. consisting of a single musical line, without accompaniment
  6. 9. a short musical passage in two or more phrases used for singing unmetrical words, a psalm or canticle sung to such music
  7. 11. late Medieval form ABaAabAB
  8. 12. a short piece of sacred choral music typically polyphonic and unaccompanied
  9. 14. a composition for two voices arranged in unaccompanied polyphony
  10. 17. in two or more parts each having a melody of its own
  11. 18. a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy to music
  12. 20. a type of musical scale coupled with a set of characteristic melodic behaviors
  13. 21. late medieval form ABbaA
  14. 23. a form of chant that has been given formalized rules credited to Pope Gregory I
  15. 24. the style of simultaneously combining a number of parts each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other
  16. 26. a book document or piece of music written by hand rather than typed or printed.
  17. 28. denoting attitudes activities or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis
  18. 29. late medieval form AaB