muar medieval

Question 1

sacred vs secular

Answer 1

sacred: serves religious purpose
secular: anything else

Question 2

liturgy

Answer 2

rituals, prayers, poems, hymes, songs, used by RCC for worship

Question 3

plainchant / gregorian chant

Answer 3

• a genre
• sung sacred text
• used in Mass and Divine Office
• some can also be called Gregorian Chants

types:
- gradual: part of mass proper, sung after reading the epistle, before alleluia
- alleluia: part of mass proper, before gospel

Question 4

metrical

Answer 4

• has a beat
• subdivision of beats

Question 5

divine office

Answer 5

• a daily schedule of services
• more of a private thing
• part of RCC

Question 6

Mass

Answer 6

• also a daily schedule
• there is proper of mass and ordinary of mass

Question 7

ordinary of mass (names in order)

Answer 7

1. Kyrie
2. Gloria
3. Credo
4. Santus
5. Agnus dei

Question 8

church modes

Answer 8

the scales used by church, basis of medieval music

Question 9

the three performance practices for plainchants

Answer 9

• direct performance: 1 or more people performing at once.
• responsorial: leader and responders
• antiphonal: groups take turns singing

Question 10

hildegard von bingen

Answer 10

• one of first composers in which we have lots of music and biography.
• served church for whole life
• became a convent abbess
• founded her own convent in Rupertsburg
• visonary
• famous

Question 11

hildegards musical style

Answer 11

wide interval leaps, florid melismas

Question 12

drone

Answer 12

long sustained or continuously repeated note or chord

Question 13

early secular vocal music
(when, used for what, properties, what language)

Answer 13

• 12th
• entertainment for royalty
• in local language
• all monophonic
• intrs. improve
• no specified instr. parts

Question 14

early instrumental music
(usage, when, properties)

Answer 14

• mostly dances
• monophonic
• no text
• consistant rythm or meter
• 12th

Question 15

organum
(when, from where, what)

Answer 15

• medival genre
• from notre dame school
• 9th (first notation in 10th)
• polyphonic
• add new melodies to existing plainchants

Question 16

parallel organum

Answer 16

maintain interval, parallel movement

Question 17

florid organum

Answer 17

upper line is more rythmically active

Question 18

troubadour/trobairitz

Answer 18

literate secular composer

Question 19

jongleur

Answer 19

• illiterate ‘freelance’ musicians
• sometimes in guilds
• memorized or improv. no written record

Question 20

courtier

Answer 20

atendee of royal courts as significant political role

Question 21

cantus firmus

Answer 21

the original chant in which has been used as a basis for a new composition

Question 22

cantus-firmus composition

Answer 22

a new piece created by recycling a existing chant

Question 23

notre dame school

Answer 23

• 12th to end of 13th
• multi-gen tradition of sacred and secular vocal music
• only surviving music is by : Perotin and Leonin
• ars antiqua style

Question 24

ars antiqua

Answer 24

• 12th to 13th
• sacred, secular tradition of vocal music
• from notre dame cathedral in paris

Question 25

ars nova
(when, called what, what it something that came of it)

Answer 25

• 14th
• “new art”
• self named
• new notation system: could notate any rythm or subdivisions of basic beat

Question 26

ars subtilior

Answer 26

• “more sublte art”
• late 14th
• secular
• refined, complex

Question 27

Guillaume da machaut
(who, what, style, known for)

Answer 27

• cleric, courtier, poet, musician
• ars nova style
• secular and sacred music and poetry
• first known complete setting of mass ordinary by single composer