Test 3 Qs

Question 0

Who is credited with the development of Western church music?

Answer 0

Pope Gregory

Question 1

Describe sacred versus secular

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Medieval dilemma

Answer 2

A ban on secular music

Question 3

Scola cantorum

Answer 3

School for priests

Question 4

Define Gregorian chant

Answer 4

Monophonic in texture single Melody lacking in harmony and counterpart

Question 5

The mass, the ordinary

Answer 5

Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

Question 6

What are the propers?

Answer 6

Parts of the mass that change daily

Question 7

Characteristics of chant

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Notation for Gregorian chant

Answer 8

Precursors to staff to our major and minor scales

Question 9

Who created the first four lines staff?

Answer 9

Guido

Question 10

Trope

Answer 10

Split word in half and put words in between

Question 11

Who is Hildegard?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

Describe life in monasteries and nunneries

Answer 12

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

Question 13

When was the golden age of secular music?

Answer 13

11th through 13th centuries

Question 14

Goliards

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Jongleurs

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Troubadours

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Trouvères

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Minnesingers

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Instrumental music

Answer 19

Music without song only instruments

Question 20

Organum

Answer 20

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

Question 21

St. Martial style

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Name three rhythmic modes

Answer 22

Trochaic- Long short

Iambic-short long

Dactlylic- Long short middle

Question 23

Notre Dame school

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Leonin

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Discant

Answer 25

All fast notes

Question 26

Perotin

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Cantus Firmus

Answer 27

Composition of technique, basing melody on pre-existing music

Question 28

Polyphonic conductus

Answer 28

Three or four parts, sometimes secular, everything was new

Question 29

Motet

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Rhythmic notation

Answer 30

Ligature

Question 31

Objective spirit

Answer 31

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

Question 32

14th-century in Italy

Answer 32

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

Question 33

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

Answer 33

13th-century-triple meter 14th-century-duple/triple meter complex rhythm

Question 34

What was the first complete polyphonic mass?

Answer 34

Mass de Notre Dame

Question 35

Landini

Answer 35

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

Question 36

What was the first six part polyphony

Answer 36

Sumer is Icumen in

Question 37

gymel

Answer 37

Style where voice in middle and harmony around it

Question 38

John Dunstable

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Carol

Answer 39

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

Question 40

List five groups of secular song

Answer 40

Goliards, Jongleurs, troubadours, trouvères, minnesingers

Question 41

Syllabic vs. Melismatic

Answer 41

Syllabic- one note per syllable | Melismatic- multiple notes per syllable