Roman Liturgy and Chant

Question 1

Church calendar

Answer 1

commemorated event or saint w/feast day in cycle

Question 2

Mass

Answer 2

Latin missa (dismissed)
musical work setting setting text of Ordinary of the Mass

Question 3

What is in the Ordinary of the Mass?

Answer 3

Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Day

Question 4

Proper of the Mass

Answer 4

texts for certain Mass that vary daily

Question 5

Proper chants

Answer 5

called by function

Question 6

Ordinary chants

Answer 6

by initial words, sung by choir

Question 7

Office

Answer 7

Latin officium (ceremony or obligation)
8 services of prayer that were celebrated daily at different times

Question 8

What is the book of Rule of Benedict?

Answer 8

(530)

instructions to run monastery

Question 9

antiphon

Answer 9

chant sung before and after psalm

Question 10

responsories

Answer 10

musical responses w/lessons

Question 11

canticles

Answer 11

poetic passages from Bible

Question 12

Benedictine Abbey of Solesmes

Answer 12

monks who wrote books that officiated services

Question 13

Liber usualis

Answer 13

Book of Common Use

widely used texts/chants for Mass and Office

Question 14

What are the 3 manners of Gregorian Chant?

Answer 14

responsorial - soloists alternates with choir or congregation
antiphonal - 2 groups of choir alternate
direct - no alternation

Question 15

What are the 3 styles of Gregorian Chant?

Answer 15

Syllabic - every syllable on single note
Neumatic - syllables that carry 1 -6 notes, one note per syllable
Melismas - long melodic passages on single syllable

Question 16

Recitation Formulas

Answer 16

simply melody used for different texts

Question 17

Psalm Tones

Answer 17

singing psalms in Office

Question 18

Lesser Doxology

Answer 18

formula of praise to Trinity sung to same psalm tone

Question 19

Cantor

Answer 19

leader of choir

Question 20

Strophic

Answer 20

several stanzas sung to same melody

Question 21

Psalmody

Answer 21

singing of psalms

Question 22

Jubilus

Answer 22

long melisma on “-ia” of Alleluia

Question 23

Tracts

Answer 23

longest chants 
Latin tractus (drawn out)

Question 24

Cycles

Answer 24

grouping Ordinary chants w/one setting of each text

Question 25

Trope

Answer 25

expanded existing chants

Question 26

What are the 3 types of Tropes?

Answer 26

introductory trope - new words or music set before chant
intercalated trope - new words or music set before each phrase of chant
text only, set to existing melismas

Question 27

Prosula

Answer 27

pose text

Question 28

Sequence

Answer 28

Genre where set chants syllabically to text mostly in couplets

Question 29

Liturgical Drama

Answer 29

Dialogue on sacred subject
set to music
performed like play

Question 30

Hildegard of Bingen

Answer 30

(1098-1179)

Abbess who wrote and composed music

Question 31

Ordo Virtutum

Answer 31

(1151)
Hildegard of Bingen composed
sacred musical drama of 82 songs

Question 32

What is the Quem queirits in prespe?

Answer 32

(late 10th C)

liturgical drama for Christmas

Question 33

When and why is Tropes to Mass for Christmas Day important piece of music?

Answer 33

(1025)

copied on manuscript in Limoges

Question 34

When did Council of Trent ban tropes and most sequences?

Answer 34

1562-1563