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2nd Music Exam- Middle Ages
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12th Grade
02/26/2008

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Term
secular
Definition
non religious music
Term
sacred music
Definition
religious or spiritual music for church
Term
middle ages (time)
Definition
476-1450
Term

the crusades happened during which time period

Definition
The Middle Ages
Term
liturgy
Definition
the set order of church services and the structure of each service
Term
chant
Definition
a monophonic single line melody
Term
Gregorian Chant
Definition

also known as plainchant or plainsong

consists of a single line melody

monophonic in texture and lacks harmony and counterpoint

 

Term
syllabic
Definition
one note sung to each syllable of the text
Term
neumatic
Definition
5-6 notes sung to a syllable
Term
melismatic
Definition
long groups of notes set to a single syllable of text
Term
neumes
Definition
ascending and descending symbols written above the words to suggest the countours of the melody of chants
Term
modes
Definition
scale patterns
Term
The Mass
Definition

Offices-a series of services celebrated at various hours of the day in monotaries and convents

Mass-the most solumn ritual of the catholic church, generally attended by public worshippers

2 categories of Prayer-proper:text that vary day to day and the ordinary: texts that stay the same

 

Term
Ordinary
Definition
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
Term
cloister
Definition
a place for religious seclusion
Term
responsorial
Definition
alternating between a soloist and chorus
Term
polyphony
Definition

combo of two or more simultaneous melodic lines

single most important development in the history of western music

Term
organum
Definition

the earliest polyphonic music

grew our of the custom of adding a second voice to a Gregorian Melody at the interval of a fifth or fourth

Term
Leonin
Definition
compiled the Great Book of Organum
Term
rhythmic mode
Definition
a fixed pattern of long and short notes that is repeated or varied over a sustained bottom voice (tenor)
Term
motet
Definition
one of the most important developments in medieval polyphony which came about with the addition of new texts to highly melismatic organum
Term
Machaut
Definition

his music introduced a new freedom of rhythm characterized by gentle syncopations and the interplay of duple and triple meters

-liked love poems

-wrote chansons

-a composer-poet

-wrote both religious and secular music

-wrote more than 20 motets

 

Term
culture of middle ages
Definition

-fall of roman empire

-church and state were powerful

-rise of monastaries

-music was religious

-trade flourished

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