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Music History 1
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Undergraduate 2
09/27/2010

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Term
What years are considered the Ancient Music Era
Definition
Before 600 C.E.
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What dates are covered in the Medieval Era?
Definition
600 C.E- 1400 C.E.
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The Medieval period is considered the Age of _______
Definition
Theocracy
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What region did the Antiquity era begin?
Definition
Mesopotamia
Term
What country was the basis of Western Music?
Definition
Greece
Term
Who was the first known composer in Antiquity music?
Definition
Enheduanna
Term
Who was the mathematician that discovered intervals?
Definition
Pythagoras
Term
What did Plato and Aristotle believe music affects
Definition
The way we behave
Term
Who was the Father of Gregorian Chant?
Definition
Pope Gregory
Term
)Who came up with hand signs and the four line staff?
Definition
Guido
Term
Who was the first music theorist?
Definition
Boethius
Term
What female composed chants that came from the Holy Spirit?
Definition
Hildegard
Term
Who developed isorhythm?
Definition
Machaut
Term
Who was a leading scholar during the later Medieval era?
Definition
St. Thomas Aquinas
Term
Who developed two-voice organum at Notre Dame
Definition
Leonius
Term
Who developed three and four-voice organum?
Definition
Perotinus
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What is Adam De Helle famous for
Definition
Wrote “opera” about Robin Hood and Marion
Term
What 4 types of instruments were popular in the Antiquity era?
Definition
Lyre, plucked strings, reed instruments, and percussion
Term
What Greek god was known for playing the lyre?
Definition
Apollo
Term
Why was instrumental music banned from the church?
Definition
It had a beat, which could invoke pagan practice (Dancing from the Devil)
Term
What is the universal folk instrument used during the Medieval times?
Definition
The bagpipes
Term
What instrument was created by 1100 and became commonplace in cathedrals by 1300?
Definition
Organ
Term
What are the 6 musical elements?
Definition
Melody, harmony, tambre, texture, form, rhythm
Term
What are the 6 musical elements?
Definition
Melody, harmony, tambre, texture, form, rhythm
Term
What are the 4 historical traces of music?
Definition
Physical remains, visual images, writings about music, music itself
Term
What are the two divisions of the Middle Ages?
Definition
Dark Ages & High Middle Ages, or Romanesque & Gothic
Term
Name two events from the Dark Ages
Definition
Fall of Rome, Black Plague, first university, Crusades, 100 years war, Chaucer, final split between
Roman and Byzantine Empire
Term
What is The Office?
Definition
8 different times of worship
Term
What is The Office?
Definition
8 different times of worship
Term
Harmonium
Definition
Us in relation to the spheres
Term
Chant
Definition
melody line Gregorian and Embresian
Term
Quadrivium
Definition
geometry, astronomy, music, arithmetic
Term
Trivium
Definition
grammar, rhetoric, dialectic
Term
Syllabic
Definition
one syllable for each note
Term
Melismatic
Definition
lots of notes per syllable
Term
Neumatic
Definition
few notes per syllable
Term
communion
Definition
euchrist
Term
when is communion taken
Definition
mass
Term
Ordinary
Definition
things happened continually
Term
Proper
Definition
things that don’t happen all the time
Term
Kyrie
Definition
Christ have mercy
Term
Gloria
Definition
praise God
Term
Cedo
Definition
creed
Term
Sanctus
Definition
trinity
Term
Agnus Dei
Definition
lamb of God
Term
Responsorial
Definition
call and response chant between soloist and choir
Term
Antiphonal
Definition
2 or more groups alternate chants
Term
direct
Definition
chant all together
Term
Trope
Definition
expansion at the end of a chant
Term
Sequence
Definition
expansion at the end of a chant
Term
Sequence
Definition
expansion at the beginning of a chant
Term
Council of Trent
Definition
church council that banned trope and sequence
Term
Liturgical drama
Definition
Biblical plays
Term
Monophonic
Definition
1 melody line
Term
Crusades
Definition
attempts by Europe to obtain Holy Lands
Term
guild
Definition
club of artisans possessing the same skill
Term
vernacular
Definition
in the country's language
Term
Chanson de gest
Definition
songs of deeds, epic stories
Term
Bard
Definition
poet in celtic lands
Term
jongleurs
Definition
lower class itinerant traveling musicians
Term
minstrel
Definition
higher court musicians
Term
Troubadours
Definition
Poet composers from Southern France
Term
Trouve’res
Definition
Northern poet composers
Term
Musical plays
Definition
plays not about the bible
Term
Minnesinger
Definition
German troubadour
Term
Minnesinger
Definition
German troubadour
Term
Laude
Definition
italian secular songs
Term
dance music
Definition
carole and estampie
Term
polyphony
Definition
voices singing together in different parts
Term
organum
Definition
2 or more voices singing different notes in combination
Term
Parallel organum
Definition
perfect fifths
Term
Free organum
Definition
organum with several things at once
Term
Ligature
Definition
note grouping that forms a rhythm
Term
Motet
Definition
polyphonic works with 1(+) works added to preexisting tenor
Term
Cantus firmus
Definition
tenor part, original chant
Term
Hocket
Definition
2 voices alternate in rapid succesion
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