song form
music form based on verse metrics (lines, stanzas) in common with the strophicity of dance music
recitative
musical form in opera, cantata, mass or oratorio
cant
old polyphonic spiritual and secular song for vocal ensemble or choir, usually without instrumental accompaniment
organum
medieval polyphony most often based on a cantus firmus
conductus
medieval song with serious, usually sacred, text in Latin verse
cantica
lyrical parts of tragedy or comedy, recited or sung by a single actor instead of the chorus
Alternatim
technique of liturgical musical performance
quodlibet
type of song
vocalise
piece of music, usually for a solo voice (mostly soprano), performed without words only in vowels, with instrumental accompaniment, as well as musical compositions for this kind of works
canzone
Italian or Provençal song or ballad
round
musical composition type
brunette
type of French song of the 17th and 18th centuries
canso
song style
madrigal
secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras
Lining out
form of hymn-singing