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14 Cards in this Set
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What best describes the melodic character of medieval music?
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Mostly moves by step within a narrow range and rarely uses the chromatic notes of the scale
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What accurately describes the rhythmic style of medieval music?
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While some music is sung in notes of equal value and without clearly marked rhythms, polyphony is composed in triple meter and uses repeating patterns
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Organum
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The early polyphony of the Western Church, written between the 9th and the 13th centuries
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What is a term that is synonymous with "Gregorian chant"?
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Plainsong
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The Ordinary of the Mass refers to...
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The 5 sung portions of the Mass for which the texts are invariable
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What composer wrote a famous Mass in honor of the Virgin Mary?
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Machaut
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Melismatic singing
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Singing many notes to just one syllable of text
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"O rubor sanguinis" and "A chanter m'er" are both exmaples of Gregorian chant. True or False?
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False
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Messe de Nostre Dame
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- An innovative setting of the Ordinary of the Mass
- All the movements are composed in 4-voice polyphony, with the tenor line singing the chant in longer tones - The harmony has a dark, dissonant sound, but each section ends with an open hollow-sounding consonant chord - It is the best-known work in the entire repertoire of medieval music |
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Hildegard of Bingen was a playwright, poet, naturalist, pharmacologist, abbot, and a visionary as well as a composer. True or False?
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True
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Who was active at the cathedral of Paris (Notre Dame) between 1198 and 1236, where he revised the "Magnus liber organi", a collection of organum in which the newly composed melody complemented rather than duplicated the original plainchant?
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Perotinus
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Although Hildegard of Bingen was married to Count William of Poitiers, she loved the troubadour Raimbaut d'Orange for whom she composed numerous chansons. True or False?
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False
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In the "Kyrie of the Messe de Nostre Dame," passages of chant alternates with sections of 4-part polyphony. True or False?
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True
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"A chanter m'er"
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The song has no clearly articulated meter or rhythm, but is sung in notes of more or less equal length
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