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What is an interval
This describes the distance between two pitches.
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What is Luke
This book of the Bible contains several songs surrounding Jesus' birth.
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What is Organum?
This harmonic form marks the earliest form of polyphony.
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What is the trumpet?
The brass family is featured heavily in jazz through the use of tuba, trombone, and this important solo instrument.
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What is Eleison?
In the Kyrie of the Mass, this word follows the words "Kyrie," "Christe," and again "Kyrie."
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What is a chord
Several pitches are sounded simultaneously to create this
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What is Exodus
This book of the Bible contains the first recorded song in history.
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What are jongleurs?
France was the home of wandering minstrels called troubadours and trouveres and these acrobatic counterparts.
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Who is Louis Armstrong?
He was one of the most famous trumpet players to emerge from the New Orleans Jazz genre.
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What is Word Painting?
This device is one used by Renaissance composers in order to depict the text of a piece in the music itself.
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What is texture
This musical element can be described as monophonic, homophonic, or polyphonic.
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Who is David?
This famous harpist is known for composing most of the Psalms.
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What is Gregorian Chant?
These early single line melodies are often credited to Pope Gregory I.
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What is Ragtime?
Thoroughly composed and rarely improvised piano music was the heartbeat of this early jazz form.
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What is "rebirth"?
The term renaissance literally translates as this.
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What is a cappella
This describes the tone color of hearing voices alone without accompaniment.
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What is the string family?
This instrument family includes the psaltery, dulcimer, and lyre.
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Who are Leonin and Perotin?
These were the standout composers of the School of Notre Dame.
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What is Twelve Bar Blues?
This Blues form required the use of a dozen measures.
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What is Gloria?
This piece is a component of the Mass, in addition to the Kyrie, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
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What is a consonant chord?
The opposite of a dissonant chord.
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What is the sackbut?
This instrument is often mistranslated as a string instrument but is actually an early predecessor to the trombone.
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What is monophonic?
Early medieval and Biblical music was often described as having this texture.
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What are scales?
Just as these combinations of whole and half steps exist in Major and Minor, so do they also exist in chromatic form or jazz form.
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What is the lute?
This instrument was the favorite among Renaissance composers.
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