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| Bedrich Smetana, 1879, Symphonic poem |
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| Giovanni De Palestrina, 1584, motet |
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| viderunt omnes plainchant |
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| anon, middle ages precise unknown |
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| at least 35,000 years old |
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| Why does plainchant lack rhythm and instrumental accompaniment? |
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| the church wanted to avoid any association with roman paganism |
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| the calm and focus of plainchant reflects: |
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| the monastery's island of peace following the chaos of the fall of rome |
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| A melismatic plainchant has: |
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| many notes per syllable of text |
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| Why is viderunt omnes so melismatic? |
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| it was sung just before the gospel reading on Christmas day |
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| in the polyphonic version of viderunt omnes, which voice sings the original chant? |
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| the tenor, which acts as a drone |
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| the polyphonic version of viderunt omnes reflects what cultural context? |
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| a yearning by everyday city dwellers for a sense of beauty and spirituality |
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| the polyphonic version of viderunt omnes was first heard at: |
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| The polyphonic version of viderunt omnes used this strict rhythmic pattern: |
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| medieval harmony is based on |
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| medievals called these intervals: |
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| the ancient greeks believed that harmonies such as the fifth reflected: |
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| musica universalis, the harmony i.e. order and perfection of the universe |
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| what did pythagoras discover about octaves? |
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| it is based on a 2:1 ratio, such that a string cut in half sounds an eve higher |
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