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Plainchant: "Verre dignum"
- Era
- Genre
- Composer
- Context
- Values
- Accompanied/unaccompanied?
- Texture
- Style
- Form
- Mode
- Timbre
- Meter?
- - Era: Medieval (800-1400)
- - Genre: Plainchant
- - Composer: Anonymous
- - Context: Sacred - church liturgy
- - Values/cultural Ideas: elevation of sacred texts
- - Unaccompanied - a capella
- - Texture: Monophonic - single melodic line / mostly syllabic
- - Style: reciting tone, a metrical, steps, small vocal range, moderate pitch level
- - Form: Plainchant Sequence
- - Mode: pitch collection- 7 note, octave span
- - small vocal range, moderate pitch level
- -Timbre: throaty vocal
- - Dynamic: moderate vocal projection
- - A-metrical
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Columba Aspexit
- Era
- Genre
- Composer
- Context?
- Values/cultural idea?
- Accompanied/unaccompanied?
- Texture
- Style
- Form
- - Era: Medieval
- - Genre: Plainchant sequence
- - Composer: Hildegard von Bingen
- - Context: Sacred, liturgy
- -Value/idea: elevation of sacred text?
- - Texture: Monophonic - drone
- - Style: Neumatic, recitative, a-metrical, large vocal range, leaps
- - Form: Plainchant sequence A, A', B, B', C, C'
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La Dousa Votz
- Era
- Genre
- Composer
- Context
- Values/Ideas
- Texture
- Style
- Form
- - Era: Medieval (800 - 1400)
- - Genre: Troubador Song
- - Composer: Bernart de Ventadorn
- - Context: Court
- - Values/Ideas: develop courtly song tradition in South France
- - Texture: homophonic, heavily accented
- - Style: Variation on duple metre; neumatic
- - Form: Strophic
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Alleluia. Diffusa Gratia 12** (texture starting from 0:37)
- Era
- Genre
- Composer
- Context
- Values/Ideas
- Texture
- Style
- Form
- - Era: Medieval (800-1400)
- - Genre: Organum
- - Composer: Pérotin
- - Context: Church Liturgy
- - Values/Ideas: elevate sacred texts?
- - Texture: Polyphonic non-imitative - 1 bass, 2 work together rhythmically
- - Style: Melismatic (consonance --> dissonance --> consonance (resolution)), a-metrical, drone
- - Form: choir
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Ave Maris Stella **texture starting at 0:22
- Era
- Genre
- Composer
- Context
- Values/Ideas
- Texture
- Style
- Form
- - Era: Renaissance (1400 - 1600)
- - Genre: Hymn
- - Composer: Dufay
- - Context: Sacred, congregation, church service/liturgy?
- - Values/Ideas- elevate sacred texts / show the new Renaissance values (txt)
- - Texture: homophonic [setting of an elaborated (paraphrased) version of the chant - prominent melody in top voice, low creates a kind of accompanyment]
- - Style: melismatic, sacred, recitative/ chansons (simpler, more gentle)?
- - Form: choir???
- melody in higher notes
- alternates between gregorian chant and his embellishments - choir vs solo
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Pange Lingua Mass - Kyrie
- - Era: High Renaissance (c. 1510)
- - Genre: Mass
- - Composer: Josquin
- - Context: Sacred, congregation, church service-liturgy?
- - Values / Ideas: elevate sacred texts?
- - Texture: imitative polyphany
- - Style: Melismatic - voices are coordinated through the use of particular rhythms?, a-metric, homorhythmic??
- - Form: point of imitation - one line repeated over and over: 4 different sections
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Gloria from Pope Marcellus
- - Era: Renaissance (1400-1600)
- - Genre: Mass
- - Composer: Palestrina
- - Context: Counter-Reformation, sacred
- - Values/Ideas: elevate sacred texts/words - not take over and be glorified itself; wanted to counter melismatic and imitative extravagance and render the WORDS the important part --> Sacred
- - Texture: Mostly homophony, only polyphany on last line. and homorhythmic
- - Style: Syllabic.
- -Form: Chior (6 people but alternatint the number of singers throughout)
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As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending***
- - Era: Renaissance (1601) but looking forward to Baroque
- - Genre: Madrigal, (secular)
- - Composer: Weelkes
- - Context: Humanism - music should "imitate" human passions
- - Values / Ideas: music should "imitate" human passions
- - Texture: Imitative polyphany
- - Style: Melodic, metric, wordpaining / madrigalism, bright simple rhythms, clear harmonies
- - Form: ????
- - Text: six loyal voices endlessly praising their queen (Hestia) as she comes up the hill.
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"La giustizia" from Julius Caesar
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