Organum

Question 1

Organum is…
A. Monophonic
B. Polyphonic

Answer 1

B. Polyphonic

Question 2

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

Answer 2

rhythmic modes

Question 3

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

Answer 3

rhythmic modes

Question 4

What did later organums feature?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

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

Answer 5

organal style

Question 6

How did organum develop from Gregorian chant?

Answer 6

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

Question 7

The Notre Dame school was dominated by two figures:

Answer 7

Leonin and Perotin

Question 8

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

Answer 8

12th and 13th

Question 9

What is discant-style organum?

Answer 9

refers to the two voices falling into a rhythmic mode

Question 10

Musica enchiriadis contains the earliest examples of…

Answer 10

organum

Question 11

What is the genre of Haec dies?

Answer 11

organum

Question 12

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?

Answer 12

tenor

Question 13

What intervals did early organum feature?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Musica enchiriadis is…

Answer 14

an anonymous treatise from the 9th century

Question 15

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

Answer 15

47 seconds long

Question 16

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?

Answer 16

rhythmic modes

Question 17

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

Answer 17

free organum

Question 18

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

Answer 18

tenor

Question 19

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

Answer 19

discant style

Question 20

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

Answer 20

cantus firmus

Question 21

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

Answer 21

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

Question 22

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

Answer 22

cantus firmus

Question 23

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

Answer 23

cantus firmus

Question 24

What term does “plural is clausulae” refer to?

Answer 24

clausula

Question 25

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

Answer 25

discant style

Question 26

Who produced four-part organum?

Answer 26

Perotin

Question 27

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?

Answer 27

organal style

Question 28

What term does "found in the lowest voice in organum" refer to?

Answer 28

cantus firmus

Question 29

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

Answer 29

clausula

Question 30

What term does "self-contained discant style passage in organum" refer to?

Answer 30

clausula

Question 31

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

Answer 31

written composition.

Question 32

What style of organum is Haec dies?

Answer 32

Notre Dame style- organal style

Question 33

Who produced two-part organum?

Answer 33

Leonin