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| Aulos (what is it/what is it associated with) |
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| A wind instrument (aeorphone) with two pipes. Associated with the Cult of Dionysus |
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| lyra (what is it/associated with) |
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| stringed instrument (chordophone) associated with the Cult of Apollo |
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| Most important string instrument of antiquity |
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| Four descending tetrachords. The first two are conjunct, then a disjunction, then two more conjunct |
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| Three conjunct descending tetrachords |
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| The final note (A) in the Greater and Lesser Perfect Systems |
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| The middle A note in the Greater and Lesser Perfect Systems |
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| Discovered the overtone series |
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| Approached music from a philosophical standpoint |
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| The three types of Tetrachords |
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| diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic |
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| Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian |
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| Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy, Music. Attributed to Boethius. Began with Plato. |
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| 500 AD. Translated the ancient Greeks. Applied the quadrivium. wrote De Institutione Musica. Catagorizes music into three catagories: Musica Mundane (Music of the Spheres), Musica Humana (Music of the Body), and Musica Instrumentalis (Audible music. the lowest form of music) |
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| Direct, Antiphonal, Responsorial |
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| Established by Constantine in 313 AD. Freedom of religion |
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| The Four Types of Chant (and which one became the most prominent) |
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| Gallican, Mozarabic, Ambrosian, and Gregorian. Gregorian became the most prominent. |
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| What did Pope Gregory do? |
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| He collected and codified chants |
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| Most commonly used chants in one book |
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| The order of the ordinary Mass |
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| Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei |
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| Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian |
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| Hypodorian, Hypophrygian, Hypolydian, Hypomixolydian |
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| Medieval musical notation |
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| the addition of the Ionian, Aeolian, Hypoionian, and Hypoaeolian modes to the original 8 church modes |
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| Legendary teacher, used the Guidonian hand method to learn to sing the modes and how to modulate to different modes. (came up with the four line staff?) |
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The addition of text and/or melody to preexisting chant.
(Troper is a compilation of tropes) |
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| Due to the excessiveness of troping, the Council of Trent banned all but 4 sequences |
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| Morality play. Can be considered a type of trope. Most closely associated with Hildegard |
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| Rondeau, Ballade, Virelai |
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| Earliest form of polyphony. Emerged around 1000-1100 AD. Consists of the Vox Principalis and the Vox Organalis. Parallel Organum, Modified Parallel, Free organum, Sustained note style, Organum duplum, triplum |
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