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Christian Worship & Gregorian Chant
Singing in the Vernacular
Elaboration
Notre Dame & Motets
Aspects of Medieval Music Theories
100
These parts of the mass have the same TEXTS every time they are sung.
What is the Mass Ordinary?
100
In Occitania, this type of male singer-composer-poet wrote songs of idealized love for a Lady.
What is a troubadour?
100
This composer wrote chants with vivid imagery, high ranges, and melismas of up to 80 pitches.
What is Hildegard of Bingen?
100
Described by the writer Anonymous IV, this Notre Dame composer wrote organa for two--and only two--voices.
What is Leonin?
100
This author wrote a treatise called Ars nova, describing 14th- century rhthymic innovations.
What is Phillippe de Vitry?
200
This activity was the central focus and purpose of the medieval Mass.
What is Communion (or the Eucharist)?
200
Audio Question: Name the title of the piece you hear. State your answer in the form of a question
What is Santa Maria dadas, or Cantigas de Santa Maria no. 140?
200
This process adds new words or new melodic phrases to an existing chant.
What is troping?
200
The "motet" genre takes its name from this word.
What is "mot" (word)?
200
The addition of this new short note value to the 14th-century system allowed for more complex rhythms and syncopations in the vocal lines.
What is the minim?
300
The piece Resurrexi is an example of this chant type, which always introduces the Mass.
What is an Introit?
300
In the piece A chantar, this composer-poet expresses the dissatisfactions and betrayals of love.
What is Beatriz de Dia?
300
Writing commentary in between the lines of a book or decorating the margins of a manuscript page is an example of this medieval technique.
What is glossing?
300
In Organum Haec dies, the "In seculum" phrase is an example of this genre type.
What is a clausula?
300
This church mode has a final of F and a range of approximately C to C.
What is Mode 6 [or F plagal, or Hypolydian]?
400
Gregorian Chant primarily resulted from the fusion of Old Roman chant with which regional chant style?
What is Gallican (or Frankish) Chant?
400
This 13th-century motet is based a vernacular tenor containing the calls of a Parisian street vendor.
What is On parole/A Paris/Frese nouvelle?
400
In a typical 13th-century motet, this voice moves at the fastest rate of rhythm.
What is the triplum?
400
Unlike earlier motets, ars nova motets employ this subject in its texts.
What is political critique?
400
This ars nova mensuration sign indicates three beats per measure AND a triply organized beat.
What is circle-dot?
500
In Psalm singing, this type of chant both precedes and follows the recitation of the Psalm verses.
What is an Antiphon?
500
This is the language of the Cantigas and poetry of medieval Iberian peninsula.
What is Galician Portuguese?
500
This elaborate ars nova motet features very fast moving rhythms, isorhythm, and texts that include animal fables and satire.
What is Garrit Gallus?
500
This is a repeating pattern of pitches in the tenor of the isorhythmic motet.
What is color?
500
In Guido's hexachord system, the natural hexachord starts on which pitch as Ut?
What is C?