Pope Gregory I
ordained chant as official music of Cath. church
**Gregorian Chant**
monophonic vocal muisic; offical music of catholic church until 1950s?
**church modes**
scales other than major or minor; different patterns of whole and half steps
syllabic
one note per syllable of text
melismatic
several notes per syllable of text; 2-5ish
antiphonal
choir to choir
responsorial
soloist to choir
direct
no alternation
Troubadours
Southern France
Trouveres
Northern France
organum
early polyphonic music 2-4 voices
Leonin
Perotin
one of the first people to compose organium; both graduated from Notre Dame w/ MA; Notre Dame School
Ars Antiqua
old art
Ars Nova
new art
cantus firmus
fixed melody used as a bases for a polyphonic texture composition
Mass Ordinary
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
**humanism**
focused on hear and now
printing
printing started around 1450; made books available to the masses
**motet**
polyphonic choral composition set to something other than the mass ordinary; in latin
Palestrina
Italian church music composer
madrigal
homo or polyphonic composition for several voices set to a short secular poem
Gesualdo
murder his wife b/c of affair; composer of madrigals
Weelkes
English; text painting in madrigals
**text painting**
music representation of a poetic image
ricercar
instrumental piece
Praetorious
German; composed La Bouree; music theorist
Venice (St. Mark’s)
Church; Gabrielis worked here as music directors
Andrea Gabrieli
uncle Gabeieli
Giovanni Gabrieli
nephew Gabrieil
polychoral motet
two or more vocal choral piece
Josquin
Ave Maria . . . virgo serena
Flemish
points of imatation
dissonance
Hildegard of Bingen
German nun
ran a nunnery
composer of the nunnery’s music
Machaut
French
composed the first complete mass ordinary