Medieval

Question 1

Respond

Answer 1

Singing between Cantor and choir

Question 2

Proper

Answer 2

Changes seasonally e.g gospel and psalm

Question 3

Ordinary

Answer 3

Unchanging e.g kyrie and Gloria

Question 4

Motet

Answer 4

Diverse vocal composition

Question 5

Hocket

Answer 5

Alternating between parts so it sounds like a continuous phrase

Question 6

Messe de Nostre Dame

Answer 6

Guillaume de Machaut

C. 1300

Question 7

Machaut’s structures

Answer 7

Great concern for structural balance and clarity

Presented identical rhythms in the retrograde to create symmetrical halves

Question 8

Importance of Messe de Nostre Dame

Answer 8

First complete setting of ordinary known to have been written by one composer
Largest single musical work and one with litergical functions

Question 9

Isorhyrhmic movement general procedure

Answer 9

Divide the original form into a number of talae without any melodic repetition

Question 10

Machaut isorhyrhmic movement

Answer 10

Devised new combinations of the low voices to produce number of rhythmic patterns

Question 11

Hocket passages

Answer 11

Textless isorhyrhmic motet for three voices

Conclusion of the verse

Question 12

Is Machaut’s work the only one?

Answer 12

No just the only surviving

Question 13

What was it written for?

Answer 13

Potentially Charles V coronation

Or just for himself and services

Question 14

What is Machaut’s mass in honour of?

Answer 14

Blessed Virgin Mary

Question 15

Is La Messe de Nostre Dame a whole text of the Latin Mass?

Answer 15

No. Just 6 items from the ordinary

Question 16

Describe the vocals

Answer 16

Four voices in polyphony using two contradicting styles

Question 17

The two contradicting styles

Answer 17

Isorhyrhmic movement

Simultaneous text by all four voices for the Gloria and Credo

Question 18

How does it follow tradition?

Answer 18

Setting of 6 items from mass ordinary

Question 19

How does it differ from normal?

Answer 19

Was usually plain chant not Polyphonic