Organum Flashcards

1
Q

Organum is…
A. Monophonic
B. Polyphonic

A

B. Polyphonic

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2
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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?

A

rhythmic modes

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3
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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?

A

rhythmic modes

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4
Q

What did later organums feature?

A

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

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5
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What term does “sometimes called “sustained-note organum,” organum purum, or florid organum” refer to?

A

organal style

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6
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How did organum develop from Gregorian chant?

A

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

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7
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The Notre Dame school was dominated by two figures:

A

Leonin and Perotin

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8
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The composers at the Notre Dameschool further developed organum in the and centuries.

A

12th and 13th

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9
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What is discant-style organum?

A

refers to the two voices falling into a rhythmic mode

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10
Q

Musica enchiriadis contains the earliest examples of…

A

organum

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11
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What is the genre of Haec dies?

A

organum

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12
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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?

A

tenor

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13
Q

What intervals did early organum feature?

A

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

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14
Q

Musica enchiriadis is…

A

an anonymous treatise from the 9th century

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15
Q

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

A

47 seconds long

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16
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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?

A

rhythmic modes

17
Q

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

A

free organum

18
Q

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

A

tenor

19
Q

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

A

discant style

20
Q

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

A

cantus firmus

21
Q

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

A

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

22
Q

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

A

cantus firmus

23
Q

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

A

cantus firmus

24
Q

What term does “plural is clausulae” refer to?

A

clausula

25
Q

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

A

discant style

26
Q

Who produced four-part organum?

A

Perotin

27
Q

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?

A

organal style

28
Q

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

A

cantus firmus

29
Q

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

A

clausula

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

A

clausula

31
Q

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

A

written composition.

32
Q

What style of organum is Haec dies?

A

Notre Dame style- organal style

33
Q

Who produced two-part organum?

A

Leonin