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Hist and Lit 221 Second Exam > Ancient and Medieval Music > Flashcards

Ancient and Medieval Music Flashcards

1
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melos

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tells you the instrumental melody

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Music of the Spheres

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discusses planet distance

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Doctrine of Ethos

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music relating to listeners feeling

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4
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lyre

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tortoise shell, instrument

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5
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aulos

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pipes used to worship Dionysus

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kithara

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large lyre for processions

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Gallican

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France

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8
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Mozarabic

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Spain

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Celtic

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Ireland

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Ambrosian

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Mian

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Sarum

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England

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12
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Charlemagne, Pipin

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wanted unification of chants so used Gregory, imported Roman liturgy

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Gregory I

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“founder”, Gregorian chant

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14
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neumes

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indicated melodic gestures not specific notes

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15
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heightened neumes

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help clarify the shape

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16
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Trivium

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grammar, dialectic, rhetoric

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17
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Quadrivium

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astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, harmony

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18
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Boethius

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wrote De institution music

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19
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de institutione musica

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music is science of numbers

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20
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musica mundana

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music of the universe

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21
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musica humana

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music unifies body and soul

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22
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musica instrumentalis

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audible music

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23
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Guido d’ Arezzo

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founder of 4 line staff notation, guidonian hand to teach singers

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24
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micrologus

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book written by Guido, guide for singers

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25
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musica enchririadis

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1st written examples of polyphony

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26
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final

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main notes, usually last note (4 possible: D, E, F, G)

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27
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reciting tone

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most frequent note in chant

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28
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plagal

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range is above and below final, rt is a 3rd below rt of authentic unless B then C

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29
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authentic

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range above final or one step below, rt is a 5th above unless b than c

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30
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solmization

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set of syllables used by guido to teach singer, ut, re, mi, fa, so, la

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31
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Guidonian hand

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used by guido, shape to teach intervals

32
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mutation

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similar to modulation, changing hexachords

33
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Mass

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main service of Roman church

34
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Divine office

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8 services within, matins, lauds, vespers

35
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proper

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texts that change

36
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ordinary

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text doesn’t change

37
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antiphon

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chant that goes before psalm

38
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Brevarium

A

texts for office

39
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Missale

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texts for mass

40
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Graduale

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chants for mass

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Antiphonale

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chants for office

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Liber usualis

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has both chants and texts

43
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antiphonal

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choirs alternate

44
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responsorial

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choir and soloist alternate

45
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direct

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choir and soloist together

46
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syllabic

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one syllable per

47
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neumatic

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2-6 syllables

48
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melismatic

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1 syllable, short text

49
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canticle

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poetic passages not in book of psalms

50
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Lesser Doxology

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part of psalm, verses 9, 10

51
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hymn

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songlike, strophic

52
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e u o u a e

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last six syllables of lesser doxology

53
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ordinary chants

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kyrie, gloria, credo, sanctus, agnus dei

54
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proper chants

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introit, communion, gradual, alleluia, offertory

55
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trope

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addition to a chant

56
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troping

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adding tropes

57
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jubilus

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excessive melisma, “ia” of alleluia

58
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sequence

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sung after alleluia, 3 sets

59
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dies irae

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requiem for mass dead

60
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notker balbulus

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first sequence chant composer, credited for first composition lessons

61
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st. gall

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location that bulbuls was the monk at

62
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liturgical drama

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religious play that is not performed in churches

63
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Hildegard von Bingen

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female chant composer

64
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organum

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a term for polyphony, introduced in music enchiradis

65
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parallel organum

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move in parallel fifths

66
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oblique organum

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used to avoid tri tones, combines parallel with oblique

67
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free organum

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organal voice are independent and prominent

68
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melismatic organum

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setting of chants, ornate type

69
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vox principalis

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original chant melody (top voice)

70
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vox organalis

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parallel motion fifth below

71
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St. Martial of st abbey

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main sources of Aquitian organum here

72
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Santiago de Compostela

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cathedral in NW Spain, organum move here

73
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Winchester Troper

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tropes and liturgy, first notated organal voices, first evidence of polyphony

74
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ad organum faciendum

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source of free organum “how to”

75
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score notation

A

voices written above texts, durations not included

Hist and Lit 221 Second Exam (2 decks)

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