(Music) Sacred Music in the Middle Ages Flashcards
a chant or hymn traditionally used as antiphon.
“Ube Caritas”
a verse recited or sung after a psalm or canticle in a liturgy.
antiphon
Most pieces of which are still preserved.
classical music
the best-known type of a plainchant or plainsong
Gregorian chant
a single note.
syllabic
combination of two or four notes.
neumatic
a blending of at least five or more notes.
melismatic
who was credited to have collected and established that chants in the church services during his reign.
Pope Gregory I
a musical symbol which designates one to four notes to a single syllable.
neume
was credited for devising a system of writing music on several parallel horizontal lines representing a fixed pitch.
Guido D’ Arezzo
a series of parallel horizontal lines where notes are written down on.
staff
practice of singing and writing additional perfect fourths and fifths on the melodies of the chant.
parallel organum
