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Music Test 2
Bees knees
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Patronage | Sponsorship of the church |
| Gregorian Chant | Also known as plainchant or plainsong. Single line melody, monophonic in texture and lacking harmony. |
| Chant melody categories: | Syllabic: One note sung to each syllable of text. Neumatic: 2-4 notes per syllable. Melismatic: Many notes set to one syllable. |
| Neumes | Symbols written above the words to suggest contours of melody. Ascending and descending symbols. |
| Modes | Variety of scale patterns. Basically over harmony and rhythm. |
| Modals | Refers to various melodic and harmonic types that prevailed in the medieval and early Renaissance eras. |
| Offices | Series of services celebrated at various hours of the day in monasteries and convents. |
| Mass | Most solemn ritual of the Catholic Church. |
| Two categories of prayer in Mass | Proper: Texts that vary from day to day throughout the church year. Ordinary: Texts that remain the same in every mass. |
| Kyrie | Greek text in a three part form |
| Latin | Language of the ancient Romans and the language of learning throughout the Middle Ages and the Renaissance |
| All singing the same note | Alleluia, O Mediating Branch; Hildegard of Bingen; Plainchant |
| Polyphony | Combo of 2 or more melodic lines. Single most important development in the history of Western music. |
| Organum | Earliest polyphonic music. Added a second voice to a Gregorian melody. |
| Oblique | One voice remains static, 2nd voice moves around |
| Contrary Music | Voices move in opposite directions |
| Rhythmic Mode | A fixed pattern of long and short notes that is varied or repeated, over a sustained bottom voice that is drawn from a chant of the same name. |
| Motet | Form of polyphonic music. New texts for the previously textless upper voices of organum |
| Constant drone in the background | Rejoice Mary, Virgin; Notre Dame School; Organum |
| Leonin | Leader of Notre Dame School |
| Minstrels | Wandering musicians, lower class |
| Court Musicians | Above minstrels, called troubadours. |
| Round | Each voice enters in succession with the same melody. |
| Sing cucu | Summer is come; anonymous; round |
| Ars Nova | French movement, new art. Music was more complex |
| Mauchaut | Most important composer of Ars Nova. |
| Only piece in French, same melody is repeated | Since I am Forgotten; Machaut; chanson |
| Bas | Soft music, played inside. Harp, recorder, lute |
| Haut | Loud music, played outside. Oboe, slide trumpet |
| Cantus Firmus | Use of a fixed melody |
| Renaissance Motet | Single Latin text |
| Constant imitation | Hail Mary gentle virgin; Josquin; Motet |
| Vernacular | The language of the people |
| Counter-Reformation | Movement that strove to recapture the loyalty of its people with more accessible music |
| Council of Trent | Catholic church, decided to regulate sacred music. Couldn't have secular music in sacred music |
| Simple, homorythmic | Pope Marcellus Mass, Gloria; Palestrina; Gloria/Mass |
| Two genres of Renaissance secular music | Chanson: Outgrowth of the medieval version Madrigal: Simple, chief form of Italian secular |
| Word Painting | Making the music directly reflect the meaning of the words. |
| Just memorize the song | The white and sweet swan; Arcadelt; Italian madrigal |
| English song | Fair Phyllis; Farmer; English madrigal |
| Instrumental only | Three Dances; Susato; round |
| Dance types | Pavane: Stately court dance. Salterello: Italian, jumping dance. Allemande: German. Ronde: English, round dance |
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