Chant
The Pope whose name is given to early Catholic chant.
Who was Pope Gregory I
Neumes placed above the chant text.
The central ritual is a symbolic reenactment of Christ's Last Supper with his disciples
What is the Mass.
Pope Leo III crowned his man Holy Roman Emperor.
Who was Charlemagne.
These are the subjects that belong to the Trivium.
What are Grammar, Dialectic, and Rhetoric
A text setting with many notes give to a single syllable.
What is melismatic.
This man was the first to use staff lines in order to notate precise pitches of the chant.
Who was Guido of Arezzo.
For this part of the Mass, the texts change from day to day and season to season.
What is the Proper of the Mass.
This man loved music but was suspicious of the pleasure that music arouse.
Who was St. Augustine.
Music belongs to this grouping of subjects belonging to the liberal arts.
What is the Quadrivium.
Mode 1 with "D" as the final and "A" as the reciting tone.
What is dorian mode.
Neumes.
What was the name of the symbols used to notate chant melodies.
This was one of, if not the most, important part of the Divine Office that was to take place each week.
What is singing all 150 psalms.
Which religion influenced the establishment of the Catholic Liturgy, including the singing of psalms and chanting Old Testament texts.
What is the Jewish religion
Boethius called this the "music of the universe."
What is musica mondana.
Mode 5 with "F" as the final and "C" as the reciting tone.
What is lydian mode.
Notated chant could not be printed at this time, so monks had to rely on this way of notating and disseminating composed chant.
What are manuscripts.
For this part of the Mass, the words do not change from day to day or season to season.
What is the Ordinary of the Mass.
What art form helped the monks, nuns, and congregations remember the religious words of the liturgy?
What is music.
Guido of Arezzo uses this syllable for the first note of solfege.
What is ut.
Mode 4 with "E" as the final and "A" as the reciting tone.
What is Hypophrygian mode.
Before chant was notated, monks had to rely of composing chants that were more easily memorable using this means of construction.
What are fixed formulae or easily memorable groups of notes.
The four parts comprise the Ordinary of the Mass.
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
What was one of the most important means of standardizing the teaching and practice of Church doctrine?
What is the Church calendar or schedule of days commemorating special events, individuals, and times of the year.
These are the three types of hexachords.
The natural on C. the soft on F, and the hard on G.