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Tidbits
100
The text for this part of the Mass changes with the day
What is The Proper?
100
A series of eight services celebrated daily at specified times.
What is The Office?
100
A place where women could have access to an intellectual life as well as a spiritual one.
What is a convent?
100
The term for expanding existing chant.
What is a trope?
100
These are sacred plays set to music and usually linked to a liturgical event, such as Christmas.
What is a liturgical drama?
200
The text of this part of the Mass never changes.
What is The Ordinary?
200
The Office was particularly important among these communities.
What is monastic communities? (convents and monasteries)
200
Known as a visionary, her contribution to music only came to light in the later 20th century.
What is Hildegard of Bingen?
200
The three ways to add to existing chant.
What is 1. new melody & new words 2. new melody only 3. new text to existing melismas
200
Film composers often use this sequence when depicting "evil" or to foreshadow bad events.
What is the Dies Irae?
300
These are the five sections of the Ordinary
What is Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Angus Dei?
300
An Office psalm is always preceded and followed by this musical piece.
What is an antiphon?
300
This is the earliest surviving music drama not attached to the liturgy.
What is The Virtues. (Ordo Virtutum)?
300
The term for the melisma on the final syllable of the word, "Alleluia"
What is a jubilus?
300
Three ways in which chant can be performed
What is responsorial, antiphonal, direct?
400
The Credo section of the Ordinary of the Mass almost always uses this style of text-setting.
What is syllabic?
400
The name for the formula used when singing psalms in the Office.
What is psalm tone?
400
Hildegard's chant melodies exhibit these distinguishing characteristics.
What is often exceed the range of an octave by 4th/5th, successive leaps?
400
This popular genre featured lengthy Latin poems set to music. The Council of Trent outlawed all but four.
What is a sequence?
400
In the 1990s, Benedictine monks of Santo Domingo de Silos had a best-selling album entitled this.
What is Chant?
500
The text of the Kyrie section almost always uses this style of text setting?
What is melismatic?
500
Another music piece from the Office. It has a strophic form.
What is a hymn?
500
This role in Hildegard's "Ordo virtutum" is incapable of music?
What is the Devil?
500
This monk was one of the most famous composers of sequences. He also had a speech impediment.
What is Notker Balbulus "The Stammer"
500
During the 1960s, this important event decreed that using chant during the Mass was no longer mandatory.
What is the Second Vatican Council?
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