Unit 2 Vocabulary

1. multiple pitches sung to one syllable of text.
4. music in which each syllable of a text is set to one musical note.
6. musical texture that simultaneously features two or more relatively independent and important melodic lines.
8. section of a poem or lyric text generally of a set number of lines and line length a text may have multiple strophes.
10. love for a beloved, without any concern for whether or not the love will be returned, called “courtly” because it was praised by those participating in medieval courts.
11. the ending of a musical phrase providing a sense of closure, often through the use of one chord that resolves to another.
12. text set to a melody written in monophonic texture with un-notated rhythms typically used in religious worship.
13. rhythm that follows the rhythm of the text and is not notated. song a composition sung by voice(s.
15. a musical form (sometimes referred to as verse and chorus) in which one section of music is sung to all the verses and a different section of music is sung to the repeating refrain or chorus.

2. Catholic celebration of the Eucharist consisting of liturgical texts set to music by composers starting in the middle ages.
3. vocal music without instrumental accompaniment.
5. a sustained pitch or pitches often found in music of the middle ages or earlier and in folk music.
7. musical form in which all verses or strophes of a song are sung to the same music.
9. religious song most generally having multiple strophes of the same number and length of lines and using strophic form.
14. a repeating musical section, generally also with repeated text; sometimes called a “chorus”.