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Music was used all throughout the church during this time period. There was also a blooming popular music culture. Most composers were poets and melody was primarily used to convey words.
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Genres: Secular, ballads, lais, rondeaux, virelais, madrigals, and chant. Stylistic traits: Almost purely functional music designed for specific services, dances, or for entertainment. Melodies are only over a short range. Stead and regular rhythms. Harmonies not technically established yet, but common intervals used are the 4th, 5th, and 8ves. Monophonic. Text and poetic form determined musical structure.
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Translates to the new art. It focused on compositional techniques like isorhythm and hocket.
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Secular music became more popular and widespread during this time period. Polyphony was the primary texture in most genres. Melodies were without number and simultaneous, so often obscured. In the 1500s, early versions of homophony appeared. Most composers wrote masses, motets, madrigals (after 1540). The madrigal is where people experimented and lead into the Baroque style. New tuning systems invented.
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Genres: ballet, balletti, chant, masses, motets, hymns, secular, and sacred. Stylistic traits: top voice usually chosen as melodic voice. Rhythm was quite simple. Progressions of 3rds and 6ths. Dissonances were not encouraged. Tonal system was modality. Homorhythm. Counterpoint. Few forms: cantus firmus, poetic strophic, binary, madrigals. Purpose shifted from function to beauty.
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