Medieval Rock week 3

Today is week 3 and today we did the keywords for the task sheet. All the keywords are listed here.

• Medieval Music- A genre of music during the medieval times from the 18th century. This music transitioned to the current rock and roll

• Rock music structure form- The structure of rock music in a older form

• Gregorian Chant-church music sung as a single vocal line in free rhythm and a restricted scale (plainsong), in a style developed for the medieval Latin liturgy.

• Syncopated bass lines-a temporary displacement of the regular metrical accent in music caused typically by stressing the weak beat.

• Plainsong-unaccompanied church music sung in unison in medieval modes and in free rhythm corresponding to the accentuation of the words, which are taken from the liturgy.

• Augmented & Diminished chords-our basic triads (major, minor, augmented, diminished). They are all tertian, which means defined by the root, a third interval, and a fifth interval.

• Madrigal-a secular vocal music composition, usually a partsong, of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras

• Through composed- the music is relatively continuous, non-sectional, and/or non-repetitive. A song is said to be through-composed if it has different music for each stanza of the lyrics.

• Neume-the basic element of Western and Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation.

• Latin lyrical text-a formal type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings, typically spoken in the first person

• Word painting-is the musical technique of writing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song.

• Rock music Genres- types of rock music ranging from old to new

• Polyphonic- in two or more parts, each having a melody of its own; contrapuntal.

• Motet- is a highly varied choral musical composition. The motet was one of the pre-eminent polyphonic forms of Renaissance music.

• Mode-the value that appears most often in a set of data. The mode of a discrete probability distribution is the value x at which its probability mass function takes its maximum value.

• Ostinato-a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm.

• Drone- is a bass note held (or repeated) throughout a passage of music. A pedal is a single note that is held on or repeated in the bass.