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Ave Maria
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- Josquin des Pres
- Motet
- 1480
- A capella (4 voices)
- Mostly imitative polyphonic texture
- Sometimes all 4 voices are independent, and other times they are treated in pairs
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Sumer is Icumen In
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- A capella, 6 male voices with repeating bass
- One of the earliest examples of polyphony from England
- 2 and 4
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Gregorian Chant
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Earliest what?
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- Pope Gregory
- Chant/medieval propaganda
- 9th/10th century
- Sacred
- Male choir, increasing intensity. One musical line at a time.
- Simple rhythm, Latin
- Earliest preserved Western musical tradition
- More religiously driven than artfully driven
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Fair Phyllis
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- 4 voices with wordpainting
- Pastorial setting
- Light/playful theme with "coded" criticism
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Little Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578 (1703-1707)
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- Four voice imitation: 4 separate distinct vocal entrances at beginning
- Episodes- Any section without subject
Opening melody in soprano, followed by alto, tenor, then bass
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il bianco e dolce cigao
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- Jacques Arcadelt
- Madrigal
- 1588
- Secular
- 4 voices
- Simple style, clear melody
- homophonic
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Allelvia o virga mediatrix
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- Hildegard van Bingen
- Chant
- ?
- Feast for the virgin Anary
- Basic ternary form: ABA, Allelvia (A), verse (B), Allelvia (A)
- Responsorial: Call and response with lots of melismas
- Narrow range with few leaps
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Cantata no. 140 ("Watchet Auf" Sleepers Awake) 1731 1st Movement
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- Choral fantasia
- Polyphonic work for voices
- trained choir
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Cantata no. 140 ("Watchet Auf" Sleepers Awake) 1731 4th Movement
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- Unison chorale, chorale tune is in vocal line
- Instrumental part is countermelody (accompanying melody heard against principal melody)
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Water Music
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- Intended for outdoor performance
- D major
- Alternates between strings, woodwinds, and bass
- Call and response
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Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
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- String quartet with double bass or chamber orchestra
- Sonata
- Allegro, 4/4
- Homophonic
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Gloria
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- A cappela with consonant harmonies
- Homorhythmic with simple polyphony
- Frequent changes in number of voices
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Giulio Cesare
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- encompass eight arias and two recitatives each by two singers
- ABA form of the de capo aria
- Basso continuo
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