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Sacred
Patrons: churches & monasteries
Singing dominated by male clergy
Secular
Few literate people for recording music
Men & women created songs for home entertainment
A capella
Voices only
Chant / Plainsong
For church service
Monophonic
A capella
Latin
Tonality in "church modes"
Often from Psalms & other Bible texts
Composers usually unknown
Mass
Most solemn service of Medieval Christian church, commemorating Last Supper of Christ
Ordinary
Parts of mass that happen every mass
Proper
Parts of mass that happen on special occasions only
Organum
- Pre-existing chants slowed down to very low, long-held notes
- Faster-moving melody above slow chant
Popes Gregory I & II
Credited w/ cataloging chants, developing system of musical notation
Hildegard of Bingen
1st composer w/ known biography
German nun
Wrote chant for women w/ larger melodic leaps than traditional chant
Leonin
Developed organum
"Dies irae"
Men
Monophonic
Nonmetric
A capella
Latin
"O pastor animarum"
Female
Monophonic
Nonmetric
A capella
Latin
Large melodic leaps--composed by Hildegard of Bingen
"Vidurent omnes"
Organum chant
Polyphonic & monophonic
Nonmetric
A capella
Latin