Music

A: A style of early polyphony.

Machaut

Consort is a same family of instruments. The string consort: violin, viola, cello and bass. A wind consort is an ensemble of recorders in different registers.

direct psalmody

Repetition. The technique used to create form that simply plays a section again is called repetition.

dynamics, crescendo and decrescendo. The volumes are ppp ( p = piano, also known as soft and very quiet ), pp, and p ( amount of P's depend on how low and soft the music writer wants it; maximum is usually three ). And fff ( f = forte, means loud depending on how many forte marks. Then there'll be mp and mf, which means the loudest for the piano and the softest for the forte.

vivace

dynamic markings tell you how loud or soft to play.

a walking pace

violin

Concerto is the baroque form following the pattern fast-slow-fast.