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Organum is…
A. Monophonic
B. Polyphonic

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B. Polyphonic

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What term does “six basic rhythmic patterns, related to poetic meters used in Latin grammar, were used to provide rhythmic structure” refer to?

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rhythmic modes

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What term does “served to keep two or more voices in rhythmic alignment when they were not moving note-against-note” refer to?

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rhythmic modes

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What did later organums feature?

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later styles featured more independent melodic parts and a greater variety of intervals

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What term does “sometimes called “sustained-note organum,” organum purum, or florid organum” refer to?

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organal style

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How did organum develop from Gregorian chant?

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organum is always based on plainchant, with one or more new voices added to it

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The Notre Dame school was dominated by two figures:

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Leonin and Perotin

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The composers at the Notre Dameschool further developed organum in the and centuries.

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12th and 13th

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What is discant-style organum?

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refers to the two voices falling into a rhythmic mode

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10
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Musica enchiriadis contains the earliest examples of…

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organum

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What is the genre of Haec dies?

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organum

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What term does “in a polyphonic composition from the Middle Ages, it refers to the voice that contains the cantus firmus (borrowed material)” refer to?

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tenor

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What intervals did early organum feature?

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early styles featured perfect intervals (fourths, fifths, and octaves) often with parallel motion between the voices

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Musica enchiriadis is…

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an anonymous treatise from the 9th century

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15
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How long is the word ‘haec’ in the organal example of Haec dies in the RCM online course?

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47 seconds long

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What term does “an early step in the evolution of rhythmic notation; developed by Notre Dame composers in the late-12th to early-13th century” refer to?

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rhythmic modes

17
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What was the style of organum called which involved a wider variety of intervals, rhythms, etc.?

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free organum

18
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What term does “from Latin tenere, “to hold”” refer to?

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tenor

19
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What term does “sometimes features “note-against-note” movement between the voices” refer to?

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discant style

20
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What term does “Latin for “fixed song”” refer to?

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cantus firmus

21
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What type of organum is used in the Haec dies organum?

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organal style (Wow! I really couldn’t have guessed that…)

22
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What term does “borrowed material, often from a Gregorian chant” refer to?

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cantus firmus

23
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What term does “serves as structural framework for a new polyphonic composition” refer to?

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cantus firmus

24
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What term does “plural is clausulae” refer to?

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clausula

25
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What term does “a style of organum in which there is regular rhythmic movement of the cantus firmus” refer to?

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discant style

26
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Who produced four-part organum?

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Perotin

27
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What term does “a style of free organum in which the notes from the original chant are sung by the lower voice in long note values” refer to?

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organal style

28
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What term does “found in the lowest voice in organum” refer to?

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cantus firmus

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What term does “often based on a single word or syllable, set melismatically in the original chant” refer to?

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clausula

30
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What term does “self-contained discant style passage in organum” refer to?

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clausula

31
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In Notre Dame polyphony there is a shift from improvised practice to

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written composition.

32
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What style of organum is Haec dies?

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Notre Dame style- organal style

33
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Who produced two-part organum?

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Leonin

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