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51 Cards in this Set
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Identification of a mode |
Made by its range dominant and final |
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Plagel scale |
Begins a perfect 4th below its final |
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Guido d'Arezzo |
Recognized the didactic value of using a staff notation to designate definite pitches |
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Earliest surviving manuscripts showing efforts to notate a melody with hooks or curved lines above or below the text (century) |
9th |
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Earliest date an organ is known to be in the church |
C. 800 |
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The lute was brought to Spain around 700 A.D by |
Arabs |
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Early organum |
Improvised |
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Two of the earliest treatises describing and giving directions for organum are |
Scholica enchiriadis and musica enchiriadis |
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The style of organum in the alleged magnus liber organi by Leonin |
Wolfenbuttle and Florence manuscripts |
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Anonymous treatise written ca 1100 reveals that by the end of the 11th century composition improvisation in the formation of organum |
Ad organum faciendum |
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The treatise musica enchiriadis stated the creation of organal voice was permitted at 3 levels of consonance |
4th 5th and octave |
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Music from St martial exhibits 2 basic styles of polyphonic writing |
Mellismatic organum and discant |
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organum that contains many notes in the organal upper voice are written against a single note of the original chant (lower voices) |
Florid |
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Manuscripts from St. Martial from the richest surviving collection of west frankish tropes, sequences and versus |
Aquiatan |
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In aquitanian polyphony the voice with the original chant melody, formerly called the vox principalas |
Tenor |
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Manuscripts from St. Martial form the richest surviving collection of west frankish tropes sequences and versus |
Aquitanian |
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A newly composed setting of a Latin sacred poem of scannable rhymed verse |
Versus |
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Style of writing in which a text was set syllablicaly in note against note polyphony |
Discant |
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Century containing the oldest surviving manuscripts containing aquitanian polyphony |
12th |
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Our knowledge about 12 and 13th century Paris Notre dame school is based on a treatise of the time by |
Anonymous IV |
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Developed discant produced a text setting that was not purely syllabic and allowed for |
Neume against Neume setting of text in organum |
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Leonin Magnus liber organi contains |
Mainly solo parts of the polyphony for the liturgical year |
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Considered the best composer of discant (Optimus discantor) |
Perotin |
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Best composer of organum (Optimus organista) |
Leonin |
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What theorists called the threefold unit of measure for each rhythmic mode |
Perfectio |
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The polyphonic sections of a chant sung in discant style |
Clausulae |
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Valuable BC of their ability to alter the amount of time consumed by a service |
Substitute clausulae |
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In polyphony for 4 voices assigned names if the voices bottom to top |
Tenor, duplum, triplum, quadruplem |
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A majority of 13th century motets were based on |
Sacred Latin tenors derived from chant |
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The motet that became standard during the second half of the 13th century |
3 voice polytextal |
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Important manuscripts containing 13th century motets |
Montpellier Codex Bamburg Codex Las Hueglas Codex |
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The date of origin of the motet |
C. 1200 |
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The polyphony used in liturgical music from the late 9th century to c.1250 |
Organum |
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Arts Antiqua |
Early gothic and high gothic eras |
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Franco of cologne |
Ars cantus mensurabilis |
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Leonin |
Magnus liber organi |
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Perotin |
Viderunt omnes and suderent principes |
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Franconian motet |
Puclete-je languis-domino |
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Petronian motet |
The triplum, like a solo, moves much faster than the lower voices |
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Boethis |
De institutione musica |
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Musica enchiradis |
Scholica enchiradis |
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Santiago De compostella |
Liber sancti jacobi |
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Winchester troper |
Copied in England but containing music from France |
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Even after polyphony was cultivated for a time it was only used |
Choral portions of the liturgy |
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Not creators of music but provided entertainment for the people of a lower standing |
Jongleurs and minstrels |
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The NORTHERN French medieval poet composers with noble or aristocratic background |
Trouveres |
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The greatest of the trouveres |
Adam de la Halle |
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The counterparts of the French troubadour and Trouveres in Germany |
Minnessinger |
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Germanic poet composers used AAB known as |
Bar form |
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Germanic people who belonged to the guilds that regulated and promoted the composition and performance of songs |
Meistersinger |
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Troubador- trouvere songs |
Strophic and usually have refrain |