Exam I: Genres and Forms
Genres:

1. chant(Gregorian)- monophonic melody with a freely flowing, unmeasured vocal line; liturgical chant of the Roman Catholic Church.(also plainchant or plainsong); composed with neumes (custos is the note at the end of the staff that shows the coming note on the next line)
   
2. liturgical drama(morality play)- medieval drama, often with music, intended to teach proper values
   
3. organum- earliest kind of polyphonic music, which developed from the custom of adding voices above a plainchant; they first ran parallel to it at the interval of a fifth or fourth aand later moved more freely
   
4. mass(Middle Ages)- central service of the Roman Catholic Church
   
5. motet(13thc)- polyphonic vocal genre, secular in the Middle Ages
   
6. chanson- French polyphonic song, especially of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, set to either courtly or popular poetry
   
7. rondeau- Medieval and Renaissance fixed poetic form and chanson type with courtly love texts
   
8. virelai- Medieval and Renaissance fixed poetic form and chanson type with French courtly texts
   
9. ballade- French poetic form and chanson type of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with courtly love texts
   
10. saltarello- dance type; Italian ��jumping dance,�� often characerized by triplets in a rapid 4/4 time
    
11. ronde- dance type; lively renaissance ��round dance,�� associated with the outdoors, in which the participants danced in a circle or a line
    
12. allemande- dance type; German dance in moderate duple time, popular during the Renaissance and Baroue periods; often the first movement of a Baroque suite
    
13. motet(16thc)- sacred or devoitional polyphonic vocal genre
    
14. mass(Renaissance)- central service of the Roman Catholic Church
    
15. requiem- Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead
    

1. through-composed- song structure that is composed from beginning to end, without repetitions of large section
   
2. strophic- song structure in which the same music is repeated with every stanza(strophe) of the poem
   
3. free-form- form is open
   
4. binary- two part (A-B) form with each section normally repeated
   
5. ternary- three part (A-B-A) form based on a statement (A), contrast or departure (B), and repetition (A)
   
6. theme/variations- compositional procedure in which a theme is stated and then altered in successive statements; occurs as an independent piece or as a movement of a sonata cycle
   
7. virelai- AbaAabAB
   
8. ballade- French poetic form and chanson type of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with courtly love texts