Ancient and Medieval Music Flashcards
melos
tells you the instrumental melody
Music of the Spheres
discusses planet distance
Doctrine of Ethos
music relating to listeners feeling
lyre
tortoise shell, instrument
aulos
pipes used to worship Dionysus
kithara
large lyre for processions
Gallican
France
Mozarabic
Spain
Celtic
Ireland
Ambrosian
Mian
Sarum
England
Charlemagne, Pipin
wanted unification of chants so used Gregory, imported Roman liturgy
Gregory I
“founder”, Gregorian chant
neumes
indicated melodic gestures not specific notes
heightened neumes
help clarify the shape
Trivium
grammar, dialectic, rhetoric
Quadrivium
astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, harmony
Boethius
wrote De institution music
de institutione musica
music is science of numbers
musica mundana
music of the universe
musica humana
music unifies body and soul
musica instrumentalis
audible music
Guido d’ Arezzo
founder of 4 line staff notation, guidonian hand to teach singers
micrologus
book written by Guido, guide for singers
musica enchririadis
1st written examples of polyphony
final
main notes, usually last note (4 possible: D, E, F, G)
reciting tone
most frequent note in chant
plagal
range is above and below final, rt is a 3rd below rt of authentic unless B then C
authentic
range above final or one step below, rt is a 5th above unless b than c
solmization
set of syllables used by guido to teach singer, ut, re, mi, fa, so, la