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| A musical subject of cantus firmus derived from a text by employing solmization syllables whose vowels correspond to the vowels in the text. Josquin de Prez. |
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| solo songs, accompanied on a lute |
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| A harmonic bass, widely used for composition of arie per cantar and dance variations from the middle of the 16th through the 17th centuries. |
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| pavane stately dance in three repeated strains (AABBCC), and the more lively galliard follows the same form with a variant of the same melody. |
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| A waisted, stringed instrument of medieval and Renaissance Spain. |
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| Musical ideas imitated throughout a work. Based of Franco Flemish style. |
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| Early version of Trombone |
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| A wooden or occasionally ivory, instrument. Uses reed, not exactly a brass instrument |
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| A wind cap, double reed instrument of the 16th, 17th centuries. Shaped like a J. |
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| divided choirs, Venetian church poly chordal motets. |
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| Precursor of the fugue. Instrumental equivalent of a motet (pervasive imitation) |
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| Song for playing instrumental equivalent of French chanson. Precursor of the sonata. |
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| A council of the Roman Catholic Church convened by Pope Paul III. Embodied the spirit of the Counter-Reformation, and dealt with the reform of liturgical music. |
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| Dance like refrain, fa-la form, Giacomo Gastoldi 1544-1609 |
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| A vocal work in which a new sacred text has been substituted for the original one secular. |
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| group of virtuoso woman singers, laid ground work for professional women opera singers, helped create preference for high solo voices with instrumental accompaniment, 3 singers and 2 instrumental lines |
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| Full anthem, Verse anthem |
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| Full anthem, for unaccompanied choir in contrapuntal style. Verse anthem employs one or more solo voices with organ or viol accompaniment, alternating with passages for full choir doubled by instruments. |
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| Late 16th French style of text setting, especially in chansons, in which stressed syllables are given longer notes than unstressed syllables. Claude de Jeune |
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| English name 1575-1700 for a group of instruments all alike |
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| Arrangement of a vocal piece for Lute or keyboard written in tablature. |
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