Music History

2. delle donne, Insatiable appetite for high voices and one that was to prevail in the following centuries
5. de Sermisy, One of two principal composers in Attaingnants early chanon collections and Tant que vivray, lighthearted and optimistic poem
8. Gesualdo, Madrigal writer who dramatized and intensified the antithesis in the poetry through sudden contrasts between diatonic and chromatic passages
9. Italian devotional song
11. (or villancico, but not both), Type of sixteenth-century Italian song and generally for three voices and in a rustic homophonic style
14. de Rore, Madrigalist most admired by composers later in the century and Da le belle contrade d'oriente
15. Monteverdi, Experimented wih dissonance and new textures and speechlike rhythms that led him to write for the rising genre of opera
17. de Lassus, Composer of the late Renaissance and The chief representative of the mature polyphonic style in the Franco-Flemish school
18. Morley, One of leading English madrigal composers and wrote canzonets and ballets and madrigals all based on Italian models and My bonny lass she smileth
19. Two to eight voices and different music for different stanzas and versus no more than 3 in Trecento earlier madrigal
20. Attaignant, Between 1528 and 1552 and the first French music printer and brought out more than fifty collection chansons

1. Dowland, Leading composer of lute song and Flow my tears and form of pavane
3. System of notation used for lute or other plucked string instruments that tells the player which strings to pluck and where to place the fingers on the strings and rather than indicating which notes will result.
4. The use of many notes from the chromatic scale in a passage or piece
6. Sixteenth-century genre of Italian polyphonic song in mock-popular style and typically syllabic and homophonic and diatonic and with the melody in the upper voice and marked rhythmic patterns
7. transalpina, Collection of Italian madrigals translated into English that accelerated the vogue of singing madrigals
10. Arcadelt, Northerner and sang in pope's chapel and Il bianco e dolce cigno
12. In sixteenth and seventeenth century France and an entertainment in which both professionals and guests danced and later a stage work danced by professionals
13. Musical texture in which all voices move together in essentially the same rhythm and as distinct from polyphony and heterophony,
16. of Oriana, Thomas Morleys own English madrigal and of the 24 others made by other composers and modeled by similar Italian anthology called Il trionfo di Dori.