Mapeh Flashcards
- Sometimes called the middle age
- the center of musical activity during the Middle Ages was dominated by the Roman catholic church.
- performed a Capella or without instrumental accompaniment.
Medieval period
Is the official sacred music of the Roman catholic church for over 1000years.
Gregorian chant
Was used in Spain and was influenced by the moors who invaded the Iberian Peninsula
Mozarabic chant
Became the official chant of the Greef Orthodox Church
Byzantine chant
Was used by franks
Gallican chant
Is well known for its hymns and antiphonal singing
Ambrosian chant
Dominated all other western plainchant
Gregorian chant
__________ means being separated or not associated with the church or religion
Secular
Means “before history” or to be specific, “before written history”.
Prehistoric
Earliest example of surviving artworks are
Cave drawing
These ancient drawings were made as early as 30,000years ago or during what archaeologists called
Paleolithic period
The most popular subject of cave drawings were
Animals
They developed permanent communities and refined their stone tools that ushered in the
New stone age
An interesting and mysterious artifact made during this age were some structures called
Megaliths
Megaliths are found all over the world. One of the most example is the
Stonehenge
One of the oldest known artifacts in Philippines was discovered in
1965, in cave Angono, Rizal
The sumerians were the first to develop a writing system called
Cuneiform.
Used a series of shapes and lines to represent an object and were written on clay tablets
Cuneiform
The sumerians also built megaliths called
Ziggurats
Were used as tombs for the pharaohs
Pyramids
Were the writing system of the ancient Egyptians
Hieroglyphs
Hieroglyphs were a combination of
Logography
WHO’s is a writing system that uses characters that represent words or phrases, and alphabetic, which is a writing system composed of a set of letters
Logography
Is a mythical creature that has a head of a man and a body of lion.
Sphinx
One syllabic of the text is set to one note of the chant melody.
Syllabic
One syllabic of the text is set to a few notes of the chant melody.
Neumatic
One syllable of the text is set to many melodic notes of the chant
Mellismatic
Numerous syllable of the text are set to only one repeated note of the chant melody.
Psalmodic
Secular songs in France
PLANH CHANSON DE TOILE PLASTOURLLE CANSO TENSO SIRVENTES AND ENUEG AUDE
A lament on the death of distinguished person
PLANH
A spinning song
CHANSON DE TOILE
A song in dialogue form between a knight extraordinary characters
PASTOURLLE
A poem of love
CANSO
A poem in the form of dialogue
TENSO
Poems that use sarcasm in exposing follies
SIRVENTES AND ENUEG
The song of a friend watching over lovers
AUDE
This century had seen the change of the musical style of the medieval period to the renaissance period
The fifteenth century
The Lutheran chorale is the song to be sung by the church congregation
Chorale
In Switzerland, a bolder reformer by the name of John calvin proposed more demanding remorfms of church music
Psalm tunes
Mesopotamia was found between
Tigris and Euphrates
Paintings and carving decorated the interior of Egyptian temples and pyramids 
Egyptian Drawing And Paintings
One of the bes known example of Egyptian sculpture is the
Great sphinx
