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One of about 45 pieces of surviving music from ancient Greece. It is inscribed on a column and uses letters and symbols to denote pitch and duration.
What is the Epitaph of Seikilos?
A way to write down music.
What is notation?
The daily remembrance/symbolic reenactment of the Last Supper.
What is Mass?
This type of trope is an addition to be sung before the original chant, with new words and music.
What is an introductory trope?
An abbess of her own convent in the Medieval Era, this woman composed more of the surviving chants than any other composer from that time.
Who is Hildegard of Bingen?
Music written with a single melodic line.
What is monophonic?
The prescribed body of texts to be spoken or sung and ritual actions to be performed in a religious service.
What is a liturgy?
A series of eight services that since the early Middle Ages have been celebrated daily at different times.
What is the Office?
A trope taking the form of a dialogue
What is a liturgical drama?
A community of celibate religious women.
What is a convent?
This Greek philosopher believed that although certain modes of music could produce different ethos' in people, the mixing of modes and styles should be avoided.
Who is Plato?
The repertory of liturgy and music codified by Roman leaders (most often attributed to Pope Gregory I) during the Medieval Era.
What is Gregorian Chant?
Parts of the Mass which vary from day to day.
What is the Proper of the Mass?
This type of trope only added new text to be sung to the original melody.
A story which has a hidden meaning, or maps directly onto another story, comprised of metaphors throughout.
What is an allegory?
This type of singing was defined as Aristoxenus to be intervallic, in which the voice would maintain each pitch during singing.
What is diastemic singing?
Neumes placed at varying heights to indicate more precise intervals between pitches.
What are heighted neumes?
A chant sung before and after the psalm in the same mode as the Psalm.
What is an antiphon?
This genre of Gregorian Chant was to be sung after the Alleluia during Mass.
What is a Sequence?
The longest composition by Hildegard of Bingen, this sacred music drama includes 88 songs and would have been performed during times other than the Office.
What is Ordo virtutum?
These are the two types of ancient Greek writings on music.
What are philosophical and theoretical?
An imprecise form of early music notation used in the church to convey gestures of the melody, but not precise pitches.
What are neumes?
A style of chant in which one syllable receives a long melodic passage.
What is melismatic?
This type of trope added words and music before each phrase of the original chant.
What is an intercalated trope?