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The Early Church
A la Mode
In Theory
Talk to the Hand
Misc.
100
This church father was so moved by psalm singing, he feared for his soul.
What is St. Augustine?
100
The number of modes during the Middle Ages.
What is 8?
100
These early musical notational symbols first appeared above the text.
What are neumes?
100
Guido of Arezzo used this body part as a visual aid for teaching.
What is the hand?
100
The Catholic Church's official chant notation.
What is Solesmes notation?
200
These types of musical items were associated with pagan practices and so the church fathers banned them.
What are instruments?
200
In a mode, this is the most frequent or prominent note.
What is reciting tone/tenor?
200
This philosopher viewed music as a science of numbers.
What is Boethius?
200
Guido of Arezzo devised this arrangement of lines and spaces.
What is the musical staff?
200
The earliest surviving examples of notated chant come from the later part of this century.
What is 9th century?
300
The Western Roman Church wanted this language instead of Greek.
What is Latin?
300
The main note of the mode, usually the last note in the melody.
What is the final?
300
The author of this treatise was more concerned with practical matters.
What is Guido of Arezzo?
300
The set of syllables that correspond to the steps of the modal scale
What is solmization syllables?
300
Term for where manuscripts were copied during the Middle Ages.
What is Scriptorium?
400
This is the most important chant dialect for Western music history
What is Gregorian?
400
This odd-numbered modes typically have a range of an octave.
What is authentic mode?
400
Boethius famously divides music into these three types?
What is mundana, humana, instrumentalis?
400
These six note groups came in varieties of natural, hard, and soft.
What are hexachords?
400
This chant dialect originated in Milan.
What is Ambrosian?
500
Which emperor disseminated Gregorian chant across his empire to consolidate political power?
What is Charlemagne?
500
These even-numbered modes have a range that extends a fourth below the final.
What is plagal modes?
500
The process of changing from hexachord to another.
What is mutation?
500
The term for a note unaccounted for in Guido's system?
What is outside the hand?
500
This city was the center of the Eastern Roman Empire.
What is Constantinople?