Sacred Music
What is sacred music?
Which type of musicians sang in Latin and performed songs of satire against the church as well as topics like love and drinking?
Goliards
Why was secular music typically not written down?
The people playing the music were illiterate
Definition: A group of musical notes sung on one syllable of text
Melisma / Melismatic singing
What years were the Middle Ages?
500-1500 AD
4th-14th century
What were the 3 purposes of sacred music?
Teaching
Worship
Unity
What is secular music?
Non-religious music
What was the first kind of notation called?
Neume
Definition: Learning by repetition, without the thing you are learning being written down
Rote
What is anti-semitism
Hostility, prejudice or discrimination against Jews
What is monophony
One voice line without any harmony lines
List 4 purposes of secular music
Money
Love
Dance
Satire
Poetry
Plays
Story-telling
What was the system used to teach sight-singing by using a hand?
Guidonian Hand
Definition: Two or more notes being sung at the same time
Harmony
What system of government was in place during the Middle Ages?
Feudalism
Which type of sacred music was polyphonic
Free Organum
List 3 types of secular musicians in the Middle Ages
Goliards
Troubadors
Bards
Jongleurs
Minstrels
What is at least one difference between modern notation and medieval notation?
Number of staff lines
Different kinds of notes
Rhythms
Time / key signatures
Exact pitches
Definition: The direction and motion of a musical line
Contour
Who developed the Guidonian Hand and Solmization?
Guido of Arezzo
In order of progression, list the 4 types of sacred music we discussed
Plainchant - Gregorian Chant - Organum - Free Organum
List 4 instruments used in the Middle Ages
Hurdy-Gurdy
Vielle
Trumpet
Psaltery
Transverse Flute
Shawm
Pipe & Tabor
Portative Organ
Bagpipe
Why did the Catholic Church begin developing musical notation?
Unity in songs
spreading Gregorian Chants
Definition: Create and perform spontaneously or without preparation
Improvisation
What is the word "Chanson" french for
Song