Unit 1 Lesson 1: Medieval music Flashcards

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1
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Types of medieval music

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  1. Gregorian chant
  2. Troubadour
  3. Adam de la Halle
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Adam de la Halle

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  • French Poet
  • Most famous and last of the french trouveres
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3
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most important musical and literary figures

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Trouvere

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4
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producing many sounds simultaneously

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polyphonic

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5
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Single musical line, without accompaniment

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monophonic

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Type of monophonic music

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Gregorian chant

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7
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Where is Troubadour music origin

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langue d’oc of province

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8
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love lyric

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Troubadour

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9
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Every liturgical text has been set in chant

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  1. Readings; prayers ‼️
  2. Dialogues !!
  3. Mass propers‼️
  4. Mass ordinaries‼️
  5. Office hymns‼️
  6. Office Psalms ‼️
  7. antiphons
  8. Responsories !!
  9. Versicles!!
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10
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2 liturgical rites

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  1. The mass
  2. The divine office
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11
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In latin, musical style (Inspired by gregorian chant)

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Taizé Chants

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12
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Texts that are repeated in all masses (The mass)

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The ordinary

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13
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The Ordinary examples: (KGCSA)

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  • Kyrie Eleison
  • Gloria in Exelsio Deo
  • Creed
  • Soutus and Benedictus
  • Agnus Dei
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14
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Constituted by pieces that are sung according to liturgical time (The mass)

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The proprium

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15
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Meeting regularly and pray at certain times of the day

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The Divine office

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16
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“watching in the night” midnight hour

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Matins

17
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celebrated at daybreak, sun= symbol of rising from dead

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Lauds

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3rd hour/ 9am (coming of the holy spirit)

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Terce

19
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12 noon/ 6th hour, resist temptation

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Sext

20
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3pm/ 9th hour, prayer of perseverance

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None

21
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6pm, celebrates day’s end/ evening

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Vespers

22
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Latin “To Complete”, last prayer

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Compline

23
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Characteristics of Gregorian chant:

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  • Monophonic
  • Free rhythm
  • Chant
  • Cappella
  • Sung prayer
24
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Troubadour= ?

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“to find” “to invent”

25
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songbooks where troubadour manuscripts are preserved

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chansonniers

26
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dance song with refrain (type of troubadour music)

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Dansa/ Balada

27
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love request of knight —> shepherdess (type of troubadour music)

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Pastorela

28
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debate on love (type of troubadour music)

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débat/ jeu parti

29
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morning song (type of troubadour music)

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alba

30
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Musical works of Adam de la Halle

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  • Chansons, jeux-partis (poetic debate)
  • polyphonic rondels, motets
31
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earliest surviving secular french musical play

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Jeu de Robin et Marion

32
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Total of Adam’s known works:

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36 chansons
46 rondels de carole
14 polyphonic rondeaux
7 motets
1 virelai
1 ballette
1 dit d’armour
1 conge

33
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Adam’s early works (not musical)

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  • Le jeu de Adan
  • Le conge
  • Le roi de Sicile
  • Le jeu du perelin