Reading Quiz 6 Flashcards
The Middle Ages refers to what period of European history?
the fifth to the fifteenth cenury
The official music of the Catholic Church in the Middle Ages was a great repertory of melodies designated for the liturgy, which were known as
plainchant
Because plainchant does not have clear beat or meter, it is said to be
nonmetrical
Which of the following statements about plainchant is false?
Plainchant is based on the major/minor system
In Gregorian recitation, the pitch on which the text is sung is called the
reciting tone.
Groups of notes sung on a single syllable are called
melismas.
The plainchant genre that consists of a series of short tunes each sung twice, with some variation, is called
sequence.
What were medieval poet-composers called in Germany?
Minnesingers
When all the stanzas of a poem are set to the same melody, the song’s form is called
strophic
The fist step in the development of organum was
Adding a second melody that moved parallel to the original chant, note by note.
Master Leonin and his follower Pertain are known as part of what school of organum?
The Notre Dame School
Sumer Is Icumen In is and example of
a round or canon
The structural technique of repeating long rhythmic patterns over and over at different pitch levels each time is called
Isorhythm.
Machaut’s Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient” is and example of a
Chanson
The salient characteristic of Machaut’s chansons is the use of
non-imitative polyphony
