unit 1

Question 1

charlemagnes liturgical reforms led to what?

Answer 1

development of music notation

Question 2

popular named composer after development of notation

Answer 2

hildegard von bingen

Question 3

hildegard von bingen music style

Answer 3

included high voices, drone, disjunct

Question 4

musical notation was able to preserve what?

Answer 4

secular and sacred song

Question 5

cantigas de santa marias (1280)

Answer 5

reaffirms Christian social order as superior over Muslims and Jews

Question 6

troubadour + cantigas music form

Answer 6

strophic, AAB, narrow range

Question 7

Notre Dame made what notational advances

Answer 7

motet

Question 8

earliest treatise on polyphony

Answer 8

Musica enchiriadis; describes polyphony as improvised practice

Question 9

motet

Answer 9

new words in upper voices, diff rhythms in low voices

Question 10

isorhythm

Answer 10

repeated rhythms

Question 11

what did pythagoras believe?

Answer 11

music reflects order of the universe

Question 12

how did notation develop by mid 14th century?

Answer 12

duple meter and independent parts

Question 13

organum

Answer 13

polyphonic composition where plainchant melody is combined with improv and new voices