Music Appreciation (Quiz 2) Flashcards
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Secular music
Music for nonreligious activities
Sacred music
Music for religious functions
Medium
Specific group that performs a piece
Orchestra
Chorus
Oral transmission
Music that is not written down but passed orally
Gregorian chant
Monophonic, non metric melodies
Early Christian church
Three categories of chant melodies
Syllabic, neumatic, melismatic
Based on how many notes are set to each syllable of the text
Mass
A daily service of the catholic church
Two categories of prayer
Proper
Ordinary
Responsorial performance
Alternating soloist and chorus
Organum
Earliest type of polyphony
Motet
Short piece of sacred choral music
Polyphonic
Unaccompanied
Syllabic
One note set to each syllable
Neumaticq
A few notes set to one syllable
Melismatic
Many notes set to one syllable
Hildegard of bingen
Sold to the church as a tithe
Raised by and as a recluse
Alleluia, o Virga mediatrix
Monophonic
Hildegard of bingen
Genre: Alleluia plainchant
Oblique
One voice is static and the other is moving
Contrary motion
The voices move in opposite directions
Troubadours
Trouveres
Minnesingers
Perform secular music in courts,
Wandering minstrels performed in cities
Secular song text
Idealized on love and values of chivalry
Secular songs and dances
Sung monophonically with instrumental accompaniment
Sumer is incumen in
Anonymous
Imitative
Shawm
Ancestor of the oboe