Music History I Midterm Review

“It could best be described as a “sermon in verse accompanied by music”. ” (wikipedia”

Tetrachords: (p. 16) Greek
1.) Diatonic — B C D E
2.) Chromatic — B C C# E
3.) Enharmonic — B Cb (quarter tone) C E

“It could best be described as a “sermon in verse accompanied by music”. ” (wikipedia”

Tetrachords: (p. 16) Greek
1.) Diatonic — B C D E
2.) Chromatic — B C C# E
3.) Enharmonic — B Cb (quarter tone) C E

3 types of chant:
1. direct
2. responsorial
3. antiphonal

rattle, slit drum — (TIME?)

“Doctrine of Ethos” states that music affects both Man and the Unverse, and that listening to certain kinds of music will being about changes in the individual.

Harmonic Elements (300 BC)
2 kinds of speech:
1. continuous, voice slides up and down, as in speech
2. diastemic, voice moves in musical intervals
defined the terms ‘interval,’ and ‘scale’

Prime through Nones are called the “little hours”

I and II: Dorian and Hypodorian
III and IV: Phrygian and hypophrygian
V and VI: Lydian and hypolydian
VII and VII: Mixolydian and Hypomixolydian
* odd-numbered are “authentic” and even-numbered are “Plagal”

“any piece of music performed by two semi-independent choirs in interaction, often singing alternate musical phrases, is known as ‘antiphonal’.[1] Antiphonal psalmody is the singing or musical playing of psalms by alternating groups of performers.[2]” (wikipedia)

included Bernart de Ventadorn ( ? — 1130)

” a chant or hymn sung or recited during the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist for many Christian denominations, before the proclamation of the Gospel. By the time of the Council of Trent (1543-1563) there were sequences for many feasts in the Church’s year.” (wikipedia).

5.) *Stabat Mater* was added in the 13’th century for Our Lady Of Sorrows

His “Liber Hymnorum”, created between 881 and 887, is an early collection of Sequences,

1.) Ordos vir Tutum — Hildegard Von Bingen
2.) Play of Daniel (p. 64) 12’th Cen. from Beauvis, a region of northern France

Usually longer and might end with a repetition of the Stollen (or A section)

this led to more careful notatonal practices

“The basic principle of florid organum is that there are anywhere from two to six notes in the organal voice sung over a single sustained note in the tenor.” (wikipedia).

*** contains an ACTIVE tenor line ***

“The style of the conductus was usually rhythmic, as befitting music accompanying a procession, and almost always note-against-note. Stylistically it was utterly different from the other principal liturgical polyphonic form of the time, organum, in which the voices usually moved at different speeds; in conductus, the voices sang together, in a style also known as discant.” (wikipedia).

A style of organum that includes a plainchant tenor part with an upper voice moving in contrary motion.

LATER, this process changed to allow for more advanced “Free Organum” and later “Florid Organum,” which wrote for these voices with more deviation from the earlier rules.

“created a new repertoire of unprecedented grandeur and complexity, including the first body of music for more than two voices.”

contained two-voice settings of responsorial chants (graduals, alleluias, and Office Responsories) for the major feasts of the church year.

Introduced around 1270 by the theorist Hieronymus de Moravia”

All rhythms were based in the Perfectio, in groups of 3 to symbolize the Holy Trinity.

Petrus de Cruce (Late 13’th Cen.)
May have studied under Franco of Cologne (wikipedia)

All rhythms were based in the Perfectio, in groups of 3 to symbolize the Holy Trinity.

the movement begins with the new text which translates to “God the Father today sent His Son into the world, for which we say, rejoicing with a Prophet:” before the original text “A child is born unto us, and a Son given to us…”