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1
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kithara

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string, associated with balance, restraint, and Apollo

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2
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aulos

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wind, associated with partying, sex, and Dionysus, played with a Phorbeia

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3
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mode (tonos)

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scale of melodic environment within a diatonic octave characterized by a particular combination of whole and half steps

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4
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doctrine of ethos

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Music has the power to incite passions

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5
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Pythagoras

A

WT

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6
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Plato

A

WT

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7
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Aristotle

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WT

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8
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The Psalter (Bk. of Psalms) 150 Pss.

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Judaic Heritage

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9
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psalmody responsorial

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soloist sings and then choir responds

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10
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psalmody antiphonal

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group 1 sings and then group 2 sings

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11
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antiphon

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short chant at the beginning and end of the psalm

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12
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doxology

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“Glory to the Father and to the Son…

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13
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Dialects of chant

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  1. Roman (one for the pope and one for the people)
    1. Ambrosian (Milan)
    2. Beneventen (Southern Italy)
    3. Gallican (Gaul)
    4. Mozarabic (Spain)
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14
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Charlemagne

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wrote music

pope gregory

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15
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Charlemagne

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wrote music
pope gregory
gregorian myth

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16
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neumes (heighted & unheighted)

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chant notation

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17
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The Divine Office

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Liturgical day

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18
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Matins, Lauds, Vespers

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midnight, dawn, sunset

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19
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Proper Chants

A 
Introit	
Gradual	
Alleluia	
Offertory	
Communion
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20
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Ordinary Chants

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Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
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21
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The Mass (Eucharist)

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Proper and ordinary

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22
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Liturgical Year

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Proper of the time

Proper of the saints

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23
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Proper of the Time

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All Sundays

Special Feasts

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24
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Proper of the Saints

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dedicated to the saints

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25
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Liturgical Books

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Missal, Breviary, Gradual, Antiphoner, Liber usualis

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26
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Trope

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preface to, or interpolation within, a regular chant item

*All tropes abolished by the Council of Trent (1545-63)

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27
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Sacred (or “Liturgical”) drama

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chant and theatrical

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28
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“Quem queritis” (Whom do you seek?)

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IDK

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29
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Sequence

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free standing composition probably sung after the Alleluia at Mass

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30
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Hildegard of Bingen

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mystic who wrote monophonic music

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31
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Boethius (3 kinds of music)

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b. Musica mundana (music of the heavenly bodies, not audible)
c. Musica humana (human music - the relationships between people, not audible)
Musica instrumentalis (vocal and instrumental music, sounding music)

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32
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music of the spheres

33
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monochord

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medieval technology, wooden box with a single string and a movable bridge

34
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monochord

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medieval technology, wooden box with a single string and a movable bridge

35
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Guido of Arezzo

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most read pedagogue of the entire middle ages, second most read theorist

36
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staff

37
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solmization

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a system of associating each note of a scale with a particular syllable

38
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Ut queant laxis

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Do a deer for gregorian chant, famous for the solmization

39
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gamut (Guidonian diatonic)

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complete series of overlapping hexachords [The Medieval Gamut]

40
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hexachord

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  • Natural - C D E F G A
    • Soft - F G A Bb C A
    • Hard - G A B C D E
41
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Guidonian hand

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a hand that is used to represent musical space

42
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Church modes

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  1. Protus authentic (D E F G A B C D)
    1. Protus plagal (A B C D E F G A)
    2. Deuterus authentic (E F G A B C D E)
    3. Deuterus plagal (B C D E F G A B )
    4. Tritus authentic (F G A B C D E F)
    5. Tritus plagal (C D E F G A B C)
    6. Tetrardus authentic (G A B C D E F G)
    7. Tetrardus plagal (D E F G A B C D)
43
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authentic/plagal

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Authentic: extends from final to octave above
Plagal: extends from 4th below to 5th above final

44
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final

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final note

45
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Psalm-tone

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intonation, reciting tone, mediation, reciting tone, termination (recipe for psalm tone)

46
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goliards

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Latin songs created by university students of the 11th and 12th centuries

47
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Carmina Burana

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Latin texts German, drinking, sex, gambling

48
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Chanson de geste

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Vernacular texts, Epic narrative peoms recounting deeds of heros

49
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jongleurs

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people who sang chanson de geste

50
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minstrels

51
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courtly love

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Aristocratic, Ritualistic, Adulturous, Literary

52
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Eleanor of Aquitaine

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troubadors, granddaughter

53
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troubadours

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southern france, above the jongleurs

54
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langue d’oc (Provençal)

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language that became modern france

55
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Bernart de Ventadorn

56
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trouvères

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northern france,

57
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trobairitz

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female troubador

58
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Countess of Dia

59
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Minnesingers

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Germany, singers of courtly love,

60
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Albigensian Crusade (1208-12)

61
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Musica enchiriadis (ca. 900)

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a manual, earliest source of polyphony but probably not the creation of polyphony

62
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strict organum (parallel organum)

63
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free organum

64
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Notre-Dame organum

65
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Leonin

66
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Magnus liber organi (“Big book of organum”; Graduals, Alleluias, Responsories)

67
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pedal-point style (organum purum)

68
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pedal-point style (organum purum)

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when the plain chant is syllabic, the chant voice is sustaining and the other voice is moving above it in a florid style

69
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discant style (discant clausula)

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when the plain chant is mellismatic, both voices moving at the same rate

70
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rhythmic modes

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  1. long - short
  2. short - long
  3. long - short - short
  4. short - long - long
  5. long - long
  6. short - short - short
71
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Perotin

72
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Perotin

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  1. recomposition of organum puran in discant style
  2. substitute clausula
  3. 3 and 4 voice organum
73
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substitute clausula

A

different organa you insert into the chant

74
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organum triplum/quadruplum

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three or four voice organum ???

75
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conductus

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latin text, homorhythmic, newly composed tenor, syllabic text

76
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motet

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french, tenor is untexted

77
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Franco of Cologne (ca. 1280?)

78
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Franco of Cologne (ca. 1280?)

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first measured notation

Music History 211 (2 decks)

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