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A Cappella

Unaccompanied vocal music

Modes

Scales in which the tonics are different degrees of a diatonic scale

Melisma

Single vocal syllables extended over multiple beats and tones

Neumatic

Ascending and descending symbols written above words to suggest melodic contours

Syllabic

A chant melody in which one note is sung to each syllable of text

Gregorian chant

A form of chant used in Roman Catholic churches in the 9th and 10th centuries which were distinguished by being approximately-pitched, monophonic, unaccompanied, syllabic and non-metric

Plainsong

A body of chants used in Western Church lithurgies

Neume

A sign indicating a note of group of notes to be sung as one syllable (also a neume)

Organum

The earliest type of polyphony, with two-, three-, or four-part voices sung in fixed rhythmic patters (rhythmic modes)

Polyphony

The combination of multiple melodic lines

Mass

The most solemn part of Catholic Church. The Lithurgy consists of Proper and Ordinary texts

Ordinary Mass

The fixed portion of mass that was sung daily

Proper Mass

Texts of the mass that changed depending on the day

5 parts of the Ordinary Mass

Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

Troubador

Performers of secular music in courts

Madrigal

A secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras

Hildegard of Bingen

(c. 1098-1179) Female visionist, composer, writer of science, philosophy, poetry and drama, founded convent in Rupertsberg. Composed "Alleluia", which follows the gradual mass service in ABA pattern

Guillame Du Fay

(c. 1397-1474) One of the earliest composers of the Burgunden School to make a career in Italy. Abandoned meandering vocal lines and rhythmic complexity of middle ages in favour of well-defined melody and clear-cut rhythms

Palestrina

(c. 1525-1594) Worked as an organist or choirmaster in Italian churches, wrote more masses (>100) than any other composer, a cappella stylist. Works include the Pope Marcellus mass as well as madrigals and motets