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Who is credited with the development of Western church music?

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Pope Gregory

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Describe sacred versus secular

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Sacred music was music played for the church secular music was casual music, also related with court life

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Medieval dilemma

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A ban on secular music

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Scola cantorum

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School for priests

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Define Gregorian chant

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Monophonic in texture single Melody lacking in harmony and counterpart

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The mass, the ordinary

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Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

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What are the propers?

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Parts of the mass that change daily

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Characteristics of chant

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Monophonic, cons of motion, so logic one note for syllable, melismatic-multiple notes for syllable, rhythm change depending on words, eight musical scales (modes)

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Notation for Gregorian chant

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Precursors to staff to our major and minor scales

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Who created the first four lines staff?

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Guido

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Trope

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Split word in half and put words in between

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Who is Hildegard?

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She is a non-who wanted to start her own monastery because she had separate beliefs

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Describe life in monasteries and nunneries

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Singing learning Latin church 16 times a day, education in a liberal arts sense

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When was the golden age of secular music?

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11th through 13th centuries

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Goliards

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Students and X moms who wandered from teacher to teacher favorite subjects are wine women and satire lower-class poetry saved music lost

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Jongleurs

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Told legends in tales of the land social outcast traveling circus esque

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Troubadours

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Nobleman, educated (literate) lived in SOUTHERN FRANCE composers row and local language, Crusades

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Trouvères

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Noble man educated (Literate) Road local language composers courtly love lived in NORTHERN FRANCE

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Minnesingers

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German version of troubadours, more abstract poetry, religious tension, high singing

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Instrumental music

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Music without song only instruments

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Organum

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Vox principalis- high voice
Vox organalis- low voice
Described as early polyphonic music

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St. Martial style

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Lots of notes in top part, which drown out notes in bottom part

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Name three rhythmic modes

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Trochaic- Long short

Iambic-short long

Dactlylic- Long short middle

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Notre Dame school

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Music theory, two famous composers Leonin Perotin, many anonymous composer/writers

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Leonin

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Wrote polyphonic music, two voices, chant and Martial style, discant style too

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Discant

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All fast notes

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Perotin

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End of 12th-century, beginning of 13th-century lowest voice: tenor -hold tone

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Cantus Firmus

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Composition of technique, basing melody on pre-existing music

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Polyphonic conductus

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Three or four parts, sometimes secular, everything was new

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Motet

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Partially based on Gregorian chant, upper voices were secular, mash up of sacred and secular

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Rhythmic notation

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Ligature

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Objective spirit

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Used certain rhythmic modes, chant base, limited range, linear basis for harmony, harmonic language was partial, mostly diatonic

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14th-century in Italy

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Never used Gregorian chant, polyphonic always knew, beautiful melodies, not complex, melody on highest voice

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What meter was using the 13th and 14th centuries?

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13th-century-triple meter

14th-century-duple/triple meter complex rhythm

34
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What was the first complete polyphonic mass?

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Mass de Notre Dame

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Landini

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Blind, took part in religious/philosophical arguments, polyphonic balance for 2 to 3 voices

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What was the first six part polyphony

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Sumer is Icumen in

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gymel

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Style where voice in middle and harmony around it

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John Dunstable

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Went to France with Duke of Bedford, the guy in the 15th century, famous for Rosabella,

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Carol

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Developed in England most associated with feast annunciation, sacred and secular poly lingual

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List five groups of secular song

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Goliards, Jongleurs, troubadours, trouvères, minnesingers

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Syllabic vs. Melismatic

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Syllabic- one note per syllable

Melismatic- multiple notes per syllable

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