Study guide 1

Question 1

modes

Answer 1

each chant was assigned a mode the important characteristics of each mode was its final, range, and reciting tone
each song stayed in its mode

Question 2

antiphonal

Answer 2

from Greek for “sound-returning” two halves of the choir alternate

Question 3

direct

Answer 3

choir singing without alternating

Question 4

Responsorial

Answer 4

from response in which a soloist alternates w. choir or congregation

Question 5

neumatic

Answer 5

from neume chants in which syllables carry one to six notes or so- generally one neume per syllable

Question 6

Syllabic

Answer 6

chants in which almost every syllable have a single single note

Question 7

Melismatic

Answer 7

long melodic passages on a single syllable are melismas, and chants that feature them are melismatic

Question 8

monophonic

Answer 8

consisting of a single musical line without accompaniment

Question 9

polyphonic

Answer 9

producing many sounds simultaneously; many-voiced

Question 10

homophonic

Answer 10

characterized by the movement of accompanying parts in the same rhythm as the melody

Question 11

dates for the middle ages

Answer 11

400-1400

Question 12

what historical things happened in the 400’s

Answer 12

fall of Rome, Christianity legalized and made official religion

Question 13

what historical things happened in 1400’s

Answer 13

plague, notation, Constantinople fell, and the Gutenberg press

Question 14

Language of Gregorian Chant

Answer 14

latin

Question 15

Text setting

Answer 15

syllabic, neumatic, melismatic

Question 16

syllabic

Answer 16

long text, with one note and one syllable

Question 17

melismatic

Answer 17

short and repetitive one syllable many notes

Question 18

Rhythm in medieval time period

Answer 18

was text based

Question 19

Texture

Answer 19

monphonic, homophonic, and polyphonic

Question 20

monophonic

Answer 20

has only a melody line

Question 21

homophonic

Answer 21

compliments and harmonizes songs

Question 22

polyphonic

Answer 22

independent lines sung together

Question 23

Manner of performances

Answer 23

Antiphonal, responsorial, direct

Question 24

direct

Answer 24

all together

Question 25

responsorial

Answer 25

leader with a group echoing

Question 26

antiponal

Answer 26

two groups singing back and forth

Question 27

contour

Answer 27

conjuct, and disjuct

Question 28

conjuct

Answer 28

smoothly

Question 29

disjuct

Answer 29

jumpy from one note to one much higher or lower