Test 1

Question 1

Catholic liturgy

Answer 1

The prescribed order for the conduct of worship is called the liturgy.

Question 2

Divine office

Answer 2

Cycle of daily worship services other than the Mass, specific to the monks

Question 3

Mass

Question 4

Mass proper vs Mass ordinary

Answer 4

Proper: change according to the particular day in the liturgical year.
Ordinary: parts of the text that always remain the same

Question 5

Names of Mass ordinary movements

Answer 5

Kyrie eleison, Gloria in excelsis, Collect, Credo in unum deum, Sanctus, Agnus dei

Question 6

Direct chant

Answer 6

Mass Ordinary hymns + chants. Everyone sings together

Question 7

Responsorial chant

Answer 7

Elaborate music, especially solo parts. Cantor + choir response

Question 8

Antiphonal chant

Answer 8

Singing is passed between two groups

Question 9

Reciting/recitation tones

Answer 9

Simplest melody type, for readings and prayers, long passages, almost entirely monotone with a few up/down inflections at punctuation

Question 10

Syllabic chant

Answer 10

quickest ways to get through a chant. Note per syllable, typically. Used on credo, for example

Question 11

Melismatic chant

Answer 11

a single syllable stretches throguh a considerable amount of melodic motion

Question 12

Ecclesiastical Modes (pitch compositions)

Answer 12

pitch system that developed into church theory. 9 psalm tones,

Question 13

Trope/gloss

Answer 13

The addition of words or music or both to amplify an existing chant

Question 14

Early polyphony/Organum

Answer 14

New line of music in simultaneous performance with the existing chant.
Parallel organum: Doubling the original melody with the same melody transposed a 4th or a 5th away.
Contrary organum:
Oblique organum: pg 67?

Question 15

Notre-Dame polyphony

Question 16

Modal rhythms

Answer 16

Is this the same as rhythmic modes? Organization of long and short syllables into metrical feet..? Longs, breves, semi-breves

Question 17

discant clausulae?

Answer 17

modal rhythm in both voices; commonly the tenor adopted mode 5, whereas the duplum moved in one of the quicker modes. these were typically held consistent throughout the chant

Question 18

Discant organum

Answer 18

Chant and duplum had nearly equal rhythm, one neume per syllable

Question 19

Florid organum

Answer 19

many notes in original voice, duplum, and long-held notes lower down, tenor.

Question 20

Leonin

Answer 20

First known polyphonic composer that we know of.

Question 21

Ars Antiqua motet Huic man/Hec dies, Franco’s notation

Answer 21

monophonic, gradual, mellismatic, latin/sacred, proper

Question 22

motetus triplum

Answer 22

taken from discant clausulae, qualifies as troping because texr was added

Question 23

Vitry motet

Answer 23

Type of music that was developed by Vitry, less secular. Addition of words to untexted upper sections in clausulae (mots)

Question 24

Ars Nova notation

Answer 24

Introduction of mensuration, meaning measurement. This allowed for duple and triple groupings and divisions of all duration signs. (quadruplum, isorhythm, syncopation)

Question 25

Machaut, his career, amour courtois, stylistic features of his polyphonic chansons

Question 26

humanism

Answer 26

Movement that went from england, to burgundy, to the franco-flemish

Question 27

Isorhythm

Answer 27

large musical idea repeated throughout a piece to bring unity
Color: repeated melodic pattern in the piece
Talea: repeated statement in the words of the piece

Question 28

Fauxbourdon

Answer 28

English style with cantus firmus on top. Lowest line is a parallel 6 from the C.F. The middle voice was typically a 4th below the C.F., but was improvised usually

Question 29

Formes Fixes

Answer 29

balade, virelai, rondeau

Question 29

Dunstable Motet: O quam tu pulchra es

Question 30

Countenance Angloise

Answer 30

3rds, 6ths in the music, imperfect consonance, less dissonance

Question 31

Des Prez

Answer 31

Sacred , religious motets

Question 32

Dufay, (Missa L’homme armé, heard in class, but not in anthology), use of pre-existent material in the Renaissance cyclic mass (extension of medieval isorhythmic motet)

Answer 32

Burgundian

Question 33

Missa Fortuna desperata

Answer 33

Went from monophonic to polyphonic, many textures

Question 34

Josquin Ave Maria

Answer 34

imitation, paraphrase, texture used in composition to emphasize textual meaning

Question 35

Leonin/Perotin

Answer 35

medieval

Question 36

Types of text

Answer 36

Sacred: church text, latin
Secular: non-church text
Vernacular: non-latin, spoken language

Question 37

Clausulae

Answer 37

(discant, substitute, motet?)

Question 38

Rhythmic division

Answer 38

(modus, tempus, prolation?)