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Who was the creator of the Gregorian Chant?

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Pope Gregory I

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What unified the repertory of chants and became the primary liturgy of the church?

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The Roman Rite

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What was the earliest form of chant notation?

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Neumes

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_____ indicate pitches or a group of pitches in a chant melody

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Neumes

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In which century did scribes start to notate using an imaginary line?

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11th Century

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____/____ is the careful placement of neumes around 2 lines (upper = C, lower = F)

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diastematic/heightened

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What are the 5 elements of Plainchant?

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  1. Liturgical Function
  2. Relationship of Words and Music
  3. Mode
  4. Melodic Structure
  5. Rhythm
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____ is the series of services held at specific times during the day; is compromised of 8 services

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Divine Office

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describe Ordinary vs. Proper Mass

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ordinary: sung at every mass, unchanging content
proper: specific to particular Sundays or feasts

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What are the 2 main feasts in the Liturgical Year?

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Christmas and Easter

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Which chant tradition established in the 7thC was in southern Italy?

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Roman

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Which chant tradition established in the 7thC was in northern Italy?

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Ambrosian

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Which chant tradition established in the 7thC was in France and Western Germany?

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Gallican

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Which chant traditions established in the 7thC was in the Iberian Peninsula?

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Mozorabic and Visigothic

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What are the 3 relationships between words and music?

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syllabic, neumatic, melismatic

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Syllabic means:

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1 syllable = 1 pitch

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Neumatic means:

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1 syllable = 2-6 pitches

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Melismatic means:

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1 syllable = many pitches **florid

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_____ _____: chorus alternates with the soloist

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responsorial chants

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____ _____: each corresponds to one of the 8 music modes

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psalm tones

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______: precede and follow psalms; are brief, syllabic, melodically varied

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antiphon

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T/F: hymns are typically syllabic with multiple strophes

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True

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how many medieval modes were there?

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8

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_____ = scale types = patterns of half and whole steps

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modes

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____ is the ending pitch of a mode
finalis
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______ _____: repercussion, recite long text on a single note
recitation tone
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____ is the range of a mode
ambitus
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What are the 2 modes that each pitch supports?
Authentic: ambitus running octave above finalis Plagal: ambitus running 5th above and 4th below finalis
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Plainchants feature conjunct motion, limited intervallic patterns and motion by ___, sometimes ___ and ___
motion by 3rds, sometimes 4ths and 5ths
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What does the Guidonian Hand show?
entire range of available pitches; series of 7 interlocking hexachords
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What is a hexachord made up of?
six notes, all separated by whole steps except between the third and fourth notes
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Describe Musica Ficta
non-notated pitches, supplied by performers
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what is the term to describe the flattening or sharpening of notes that technically didn't exist within a given hexachord?
Musica Ficta
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____/____/____ --> one and the same person
poet/composer/singer
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define "chanson de geste"
song of deed = epic amount of chivalrous accomplishment; associated with troubadours and trouveres
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in which centuries were troubadours and trouveres at their height of activity?
12th and 13th centuries
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Troubadours were from where and sang in which language?
Southern France; Occitan
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Trouveres were from where and sang in which language?
Northern France; Medieval French
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What kinds of songs did troubadours and trouveres sing?
love songs, pastorals, dialogues, laments --> strophic both musically and texturally
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Who did the Songs in Latin appeal to?
wandering minstrels
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Who was the famous troubadour who was banished from 2 courts for becoming too emotionally attached to ladies of those courts?
Bernart de Ventadorn (1140-1190)
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Define "Minnesinger"
singer of courtly love, German
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Who was Tannihauser?
famous composer-poet-performer who was the central character in Wagner's opera of the same name
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Define "bar form"
two musically identical statements and a final closing statement; AAB pattern
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What are the two types of statements in bar form?
Stollen and Abgesang
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What did minnesingers sing about? (3 things)
chivalry, praise of God, praise of noblewomen
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What is the term for a polyphonic work consisting of an original plainchant melody in one voice along with at least one additional voice above or below?
Organum
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Define "Parallel Organum"
An additional voice runs parallel to the established plainchant melody at a constant interval
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Define "Melismatic Organum"
multiple notes in vox organalis over single note in chant
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Vox Principalis vs. Vox Organalis?
Vox Principalis: plainchant melody (principal voice), chant Vox Organalis: additional voice, florid line
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What does "duplum" mean?
added second voice in an organum
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At this point in time, what is the "tenor?"
"to hold," the lower holding voice in an organum
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Describe the advent of contrary motion
as the organalis ascends, the principalis should descend
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What is a "clausula?"
measured, like a variation, brief section of polyphony, line of music you could substitute over a tenor line, passage of full organum superimposed over another chant
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What were the earliest known polyphonic compositions?
Organums, based on plainchants
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What was the Musica Enchiriadis?
first preserved reference to polyphony in medieval times
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Organum includes the earliest known instances of ____
counterpoint
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Counterpoint prompted medieval theorists to reevaluate what intervals might or might not be considered ____
consonant
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Who was the prototypical composer of what was called the Notre Dame Organum?
Leonin
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What is the name for the most elaborate form of organum that appeared from a circle of largely anonymous composers?
Notre Dame Organum
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What are two other names for melismatic organum?
free and unmeasured
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What is another name more measured organum?
discant
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What are the three different kinds of texture used in organum in the style of Leonin?
1. Unison Plainchant: unchanged from the original in those sections of a responsorial chant sung by the chorus 2. Free organum in those sections sung by the solists that are predominantly neumatic in the original chant 3. Measured organum in those sections sung by the soloists that are predominantly melismatic in the original chant
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What is a motet?
- comes from clausula - upper voice has text, is moving - lower voice is holding --> tenor part - tenor no longer a sacred object
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what did the rhythmic modes indicate?
- long and short notes | - first form of rhythmic notation
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describe mensural notation
More precise system of indicating rhythmic variety
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What was the first form of mensural notation?
Franconian
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Franconian rhythms included the ___, the breve and the semibreve
Long
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Petronian notation included _____ and ______
Minims and Semiminums
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Who was responsible for unifying the chant repertoire?
Charlemange

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