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Medieval Music
Secular and Sacred Music in Middle AGES
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| melismatic | Long groups of notes set to a single syllable of text. |
| mode | A scale pattern, major or minor, used in composition. |
| modal | Various melodic and harmonic types that prevailed in the medieval and Renaissance eras. |
| organum | Earliest polyphonic music, added second voice to a Gregorian chant at a fourth or fifth interval. Eventually individual voices moved not only in parallel motion but in contrary motion. |
| introit | Text of Proper Mass, unique to that day |
| liturgy | Set order of church services and structure of each service. |
| neumatic | Small groups of 5 or 6 notes sung to a single syllable of text. |
| oblique | Once voice static while the other is moving. |