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Keys in Music

A group of pitches, or scale, that forms the basis of a musical composition.

Time Signature

A notational convention in Western Musical Notation to specify how many beats are in each measure, and which note value is rquivalent to a beat.

Key Signature

A set of sharp, flat, and natural symbols placed together on a staff.

Home Tone

Last note of the song.

Key Tone

1st note of the song

Mozarabic and Ambrosian Chant

Loturgical plain chant of the Visigoth people.

Byzantine Chant

Originally consisted of a song and hymns.

Gallican Chant

Liturgical plain chant of the Gallican Rite

Gregorian Chant

A form of monophonic unaccompanied Sacred Song of the Roman Catholics

Syria

Developed antiphonal and responsorial singing.

Antiphonal Singing

Alternate singing of choirs

Responsorial Singing

A solo voice part followed by singing in unison by a choir.

A capella, monophonic, limited range, sung in Latin, neumatic notation, unmeterd, conjunct melody, modal

Characteristics of Gregorian Chant

Syllabic

One syllable to one note of the melody.

Neumatic

One syllable to a few notes

Melismatic

One syllable to many notes

Psalmodic

Numerous syllables to one repeated note.

Requiem Mass

Eucharist mass for the dead.

Missa pro defunctis

Other name for requiem mass.