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| The Elements of Music: A Brief Introduction | |
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| Melody | |
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| Sci-Tech:The acoustics of melody | |
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| Rhythm | |
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| Harmony Cultural Contexts:Illegal Harmony? | |
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| Texture | |
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| Timbre Sci-Tech:The acoustics of timbre | |
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| Dynamics | |
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| Form | |
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| Word-Music Relationships | |
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| Genre | |
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| The Middle Ages | |
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| Part-opener: The Middle Ages | |
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| The Middle Ages: An Overview | |
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| Hildegard von Bingen:Play of Virtues(excerpt) (3:30) Texture | |
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| Primarily monophonic | |
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| Melody | |
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| Primarily conjunct, occasionally disjunct | |
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| Cadences | |
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| Word-Music Relationships | |
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| Primarily syllabic, occasionally melismatic | |
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| Rhythm | |
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| Primarily free, but at one point in duple meter | |
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| Listening Guide Bio: Visions Through Music | |
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| The Composer Speaks: Hildegard Defends the Practice of Music Cultural | |
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| Contexts:The Morality Play Expand Your Playlist:Chant(Christian plainchant, Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish chant) | |
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| San Ildefonso Indians of New Mexico:Eagle Dance(3:00) (Global Connection: Chant) Texture | |
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| All voices sing one melodic line together | |
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| Word-Music Relationships | |
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| Vocables | |
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| Voices as instruments | |
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| Form | |
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| A-B-A | |
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| Melody | |
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| A terraced melody | |
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| Listening Guide Cultural Contexts:The Powwow Expand Your Playlist:Native American Music | |
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| Francesco Landini: "Behold, Spring" (1:13) Texture: Polyphonic | |
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| Rhythm | |
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| Triple meter | |
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| Melody | |
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| Largely stepwise; each unit ends with a cadence | |
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| Form | |
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| Shaped by form of text, with repeated text set to same music (ABBA) | |
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| Word-Music Relationships | |
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| Largely syllabic, occasionally melismatic | |
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| Listening Guide Bio: The Composer as Poet The Money Trail:Producing a Manuscript Expand Your Playlist:Medieval polyphony (Perotin, Machaut, da Firenze) | |
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| Alfonso el Sabio:Songs to the Virgin Maryno | |
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| 249, "He Who Gladly Serves" (1:48) Timbre: Contrast between the percussion instruments (two drums) and the wind instruments (two shawms) | |
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| Form: Repetition and variation of short melodic units throughout (A, B, and C) | |
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| Texture: Three distinct textures on the sha | |