Pope Gregory
This chant tradition is named after Pope Gregory the Great.
What is Gregorian Chant?
The city crusaders sought to reclaim.
What is Jerusalem, Middle East, Holy Land. (Any answer will work)
The musical texture expanded by Pérotin to three and four voices.
What is polyphony?
The fixed portion of the Mass that begins with a Greek prayer for mercy.
What is the Kyrie?
The sacred ritual that reenacts Christ's Last Supper.
What is the Mass?
The texture of Gregorian chant.
What is monophonic?
The Crusades were not a single battle, but a series of these conflicts.
What are wars?
The church service in which Pope Gregory's chants became central.
What is the Mass?
The musical technique that added one or more voices above Gregorian chant.
What is Organum?
The fixed section of the Mass that includes the Kyrie
What is the Ordinary?
DAILY DOUBLE: The symbol often shown whispering chants into Pope Gregory's ear.
What is a dove?
The European instrument most directly influenced by the Middle Eastern oud.
What is the lute?
The composer who founded a monastery at Rupertsberg in 1165.
Who is Hildegard of Bingen?
The language used for most Gregorian chants.
What is Latin?
The variable section of the Mass that changes throughout the church year.
What is the Proper?
This city was the center of Pope Gregory's leadership.
What is Rome?
The region whose melodies influenced Gregorian chant after the Crusades.
What is Syria?
The cathedral associated with Léonin and Pérotin.
What is Notre-Dame Cathedral?
She was Canonized in 2012.
Who is Hildegard?
The early notation system that developed into modern staff notation.
What are neumes?
DAILY DOUBLE: These three cultures influenced Gregorian melodies.
What are Greek, Hebrew, and Syrian?
This pope's call to arms in 1095 launched the First Crusade.
Who is Pope Urban II?
The composer who expanded polyphony to three and four voices.
Who is Pérotin?
The year Notre Dame Cathedral caught fire
What is 2019.
The voice in early polyphony that held the original chant melody.
What is the tenor?