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Identification of a mode

Made by its range dominant and final

Plagel scale

Begins a perfect 4th below its final

Guido d'Arezzo

Recognized the didactic value of using a staff notation to designate definite pitches

Earliest surviving manuscripts showing efforts to notate a melody with hooks or curved lines above or below the text (century)

9th

Earliest date an organ is known to be in the church

C. 800

The lute was brought to Spain around 700 A.D by

Arabs

Early organum

Improvised

Two of the earliest treatises describing and giving directions for organum are

Scholica enchiriadis and musica enchiriadis

The style of organum in the alleged magnus liber organi by Leonin

Wolfenbuttle and Florence manuscripts

Anonymous treatise written ca 1100 reveals that by the end of the 11th century composition improvisation in the formation of organum

Ad organum faciendum

The treatise musica enchiriadis stated the creation of organal voice was permitted at 3 levels of consonance

4th 5th and octave

Music from St martial exhibits 2 basic styles of polyphonic writing

Mellismatic organum and discant

organum that contains many notes in the organal upper voice are written against a single note of the original chant (lower voices)

Florid

Manuscripts from St. Martial from the richest surviving collection of west frankish tropes, sequences and versus

Aquiatan

In aquitanian polyphony the voice with the original chant melody, formerly called the vox principalas

Tenor

Manuscripts from St. Martial form the richest surviving collection of west frankish tropes sequences and versus

Aquitanian

A newly composed setting of a Latin sacred poem of scannable rhymed verse

Versus

Style of writing in which a text was set syllablicaly in note against note polyphony

Discant

Century containing the oldest surviving manuscripts containing aquitanian polyphony

12th

Our knowledge about 12 and 13th century Paris Notre dame school is based on a treatise of the time by

Anonymous IV

Developed discant produced a text setting that was not purely syllabic and allowed for

Neume against Neume setting of text in organum

Leonin Magnus liber organi contains

Mainly solo parts of the polyphony for the liturgical year

Considered the best composer of discant (Optimus discantor)

Perotin

Best composer of organum (Optimus organista)

Leonin

What theorists called the threefold unit of measure for each rhythmic mode

Perfectio

The polyphonic sections of a chant sung in discant style

Clausulae

Valuable BC of their ability to alter the amount of time consumed by a service

Substitute clausulae

In polyphony for 4 voices assigned names if the voices bottom to top

Tenor, duplum, triplum, quadruplem

A majority of 13th century motets were based on

Sacred Latin tenors derived from chant

The motet that became standard during the second half of the 13th century

3 voice polytextal

Important manuscripts containing 13th century motets

Montpellier Codex


Bamburg Codex


Las Hueglas Codex

The date of origin of the motet

C. 1200

The polyphony used in liturgical music from the late 9th century to c.1250

Organum

Arts Antiqua

Early gothic and high gothic eras

Franco of cologne

Ars cantus mensurabilis

Leonin

Magnus liber organi

Perotin

Viderunt omnes and suderent principes

Franconian motet

Puclete-je languis-domino

Petronian motet

The triplum, like a solo, moves much faster than the lower voices

Boethis

De institutione musica

Musica enchiradis

Scholica enchiradis

Santiago De compostella

Liber sancti jacobi

Winchester troper

Copied in England but containing music from France

Even after polyphony was cultivated for a time it was only used

Choral portions of the liturgy

Not creators of music but provided entertainment for the people of a lower standing

Jongleurs and minstrels

The NORTHERN French medieval poet composers with noble or aristocratic background

Trouveres

The greatest of the trouveres

Adam de la Halle

The counterparts of the French troubadour and Trouveres in Germany

Minnessinger

Germanic poet composers used AAB known as

Bar form

Germanic people who belonged to the guilds that regulated and promoted the composition and performance of songs

Meistersinger

Troubador- trouvere songs

Strophic and usually have refrain