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    Contemporary Choral Music

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    Contemporary Choral Compositions Most people that live in the modern generation view choral music as old‚ boring harmonies whose composers died with kings. However‚ choral music is not just for the elderly singing hymns apathetically in the church pews on Sunday morning. Though the perception of it remains unenthusiastic among common listeners‚ the life of choral music is not as dead or boring as most would assume. Choral music is made modern‚ enjoyable‚ and vibrant through the works of contemporary

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    from this time period was sung by choirs. A new style of music consisted of blending voices at the same time. That style of singing was called polyphony and became very popular. Also‚ the madrigal was another popular form of music. This form of music was sang by three or six singers. Like the polyphony‚ the madrigal had many voices singing together. The songs were usually romantic poems and were sung with lots of emotion. A bunch of new and improved instruments were made in the Renaissance. The most

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    1. What were the three forms of English madrigals? Describe each type. ---Madrigal proper- through composed word painting‚ ballet- strophic & danced & ayre- performed with or without accompaniment 2. What were chorales? Why were they popular? easy to sing melodies based on traditional folk songs. The press allowed printing of the books 3. What is a consort? an instrument ensemble consisting of a flute‚ lute‚ cittern‚ violin‚ bandore and the bass viola de gamba 4. Who was Guillaume Dufay? What

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    •For a long time the western music was monophonic. Monks from monastery choirs created a new form of music. They added a second line to Gregorian chants. This made the music polyphonic. Because it had more than one line. Medieval music that has two or more melodic lines is organum. •The estampie is from the thirteenth century. It is one of the earliest forms of music. It is played in triple meter. The estampie beat is strong and played very swiftly. It has a very upbeat sound and sounds very cheery

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    popular at the time were focused on giving the public what they needed and desired. Painters‚ painted the things that were of the time‚ and artist sang about things that were going on at the time. Sacred music was split into different genres‚ the motet and the mass Composer’s during the Renaissance time began to change traditional plainchant by adding extra notes and developing paraphrases. My understanding to that‚ is that composer took a ridged plainchant that you can

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    While composing‚ Willaert made several breakthroughs in working with psalms‚ hymns‚ and madrigals‚ as well as interval affect (McKinney‚ 2010‚ p. 3). One of his musical contributions was in polyphony. Willaert had composed pieces that were set to two groups with four-part harmonies that would sing at different times‚ however they would eventually

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    jakeimmeron@hotmail.com 1. What were the three forms of English madrigals? Describe each type. There is madrigal proper (used word painting to associate music with the words in text and was through composed)‚ ballet (stories are told by the dancers’ moves and what tone the music is)‚ and ayre (uses a multitude of ways to be performed but does not necessarily need to have accompaniment). 2. What were chorales? Why were they popular? Chorales were melodies that were easy to sing‚ usually

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    Baroque music From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia • Ten things you may not know about Wikipedia •Jump to: navigation‚ search History of European art music Early Medieval (500 – 1400) Renaissance (1400 – 1600) Common practice Baroque (1600 – 1760) Classical (1730 – 1820) Romantic (1815 – 1910) Modern and contemporary 20th century classical (1900 – 2000) Contemporary classical (1975 – present) Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical music

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    “Sing We And Chant It” is a vocal composition in the English madrigal tradition by Thomas Morley (ca. 1557-1602)‚ who was the first in a long line of many great English madrigalists. The recording is performed by The Douglas Frank Chorale. Morley is credited with the transplantation of the Italian madrigal tradition to England. He fashioned his works on the Italian models‚ but he used greater tonal sophistication and harmonic variety. “Sing We And Chant It” is an a capella choral work featuring

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