Terms #5

Question 1

Historiae

Answer 1

Newly composed saints offices

Question 2

Trope

Answer 2

• musical or textual addition to an existing plainchant
• tropes could be added to the beginning or end of chant, or they could be interpolated into the chant itself
• the original chant, in any event, remained interact, even if it is now framed or interrupted by new material

Question 3

Prosula

Answer 3

• one category of tropes added words to an existing melisma

- these interpolated texts also served as a kind of commentary on the original text

Question 4

Sequence

Answer 4

-Element of the Mass Propers, authorized for special feast days, appearing after the Alleluia

Question 5

Jubilus

Answer 5

-in plainchant settings of the Allleluia within the propers of the mass, the long melisma on the final syllable of the word Alleluia

Question 6

Musical characteristics of late medieval chant

Answer 6

-fill out later

Question 7

Glossing

Answer 7

Hh

Question 8

Liturgical drama

Answer 8

-a liturgical passage in chant presented in a quasi-theatrical manner during the service, with individual portrayals of the protagonists

Question 9

Rhymed office

Answer 9

-during the late medieval era and well into the Renaissance, more than a thousand rhymed offices (so called because their music and poetic text followed a strict metrical and rhyming pattern) were established for the use in services in honor of particular saints or feasts