Survey 2

psalm!

poem of praise

cantilliation

chanting of sacred texts

4 Chant dialects

Gregorian

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Byzantine

Ambrosian

Old Roman

rite

actions of a Christian tradition

church calendar

schedule of days to commemorate special events

liturgy

body of texts and ritual actions, assigned to each service

plainchant/chant

unison song with prescribed texts

echoi

served as a model for the eight modes

Notation for chants?

needed to stabilize chant

neume

earliest notation:

placed above words to

indicate melodic gesture

# of notes

heighted/diastematic neumes

line-words above or below

Boethius (280-524)

most revered authority on music of middle ages

musica mundana

music of universe

#ical relationships governing mvt of:

-stars/planets/seasons

music humana

music of human

#ical relationships governing mvt of:

body/soul

musica instrumentalis

instrumental music

#ical relationships governing mvt of:

audible music by instruments + voices

modes

arrangement of

whole/semitones around Final

w/Range relative to final.

position of tenor/reciting tone

reciting tone

the second most important (under final) note

used for