1) Medieval music
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In medieval music, conductus (plural: conductus) is a type of sacred, but non-liturgical vocal composition for one or more voices. The word derives from Latin conducere (to escort), and the conductus was most likely sung while the lectionary was carried from its place of safekeeping to the place from which it was to be read. The conductus was one ...
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in medieval music, a metrical Latin song of ceremonial character for one, two, or three voices. The word first appeared in mid-12th-century ... [3 related articles]
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conductus A class of musical composition, monophonic or polyphonic, practiced in the 12th and 13th centuries, and not normally based upon Gregorian chant. It was originally associated with the procession in church, and its metrical Latin texts are devotional, moral, or political in content.
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(monophonic) a paraliturgical strophic genre sometimes called the `versus ` for its poetic structure; it is thought to have accompanied movement of a celebrant from one station to another within a church.
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(polyphonic) a thirteenth-century genre based on newly composed material. All voices move together (it is homorhythmic) and sing the same text. Contrasts with the motet.
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any of various forms of medieval song with a Latin text.
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