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The eight Church modes are defined primarily by their |
range, final, and reciting tone |
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The chant tradition centered in the city of Milan is known as |
Ambrosian chant |
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Charlemagne is credited with |
attempting to bring chant practices in the Frankish kingdom into line with Roman chant practices |
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According to Martianus Capella, what subjects make up the quadrivium? |
arithmetic astronomy geometry music |
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What was the Schola Cantorum? |
the choir that sang for observances officiated by the pope |
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By whom was Jewish (music performed in the first century? |
by a cantor, only |
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What were the church fathers general beliefs regarding the moral character of music? |
they believed that music could be good or evil and that only the right kinds of music should be sung in worship |
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The sixth-century write who compiled a compendium of Greek music theory based on Nichomachus and Ptolemy was |
Boethius |
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Four Christian practices which come from Jewish music, one which doesn't |
Reading of scripture The use of melodic formulas for singing psalms Symbolic meal (Jesus' Last Super) Assigning specific readings to specific days Eight modes for singing chant |
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Early Christian church leaders believed that instrumental music |
could evoke pagan practices and should therefor be suppressed |
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Egeria's description of a fourth-century worship describes |
priests singing psalms and the congregation singing responses |
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The style of chant known as "Gregorian" originated as |
a synthesis of Roman and Frankish chant styles |
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The earliest notated chant books date from |
the ninth century |
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The first use of a line to indicate pitch level helped the singer to locate |
the semitone |
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Four innovation of Guido of Arezzo One not |
solmization staff lines letter names for the lines of the staff hexachord theory modal theory |
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Solesmes notation was created for |
official chant books in the twentieth century |
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Hexachords can begin on which pitches? |
C F G |
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Musica humana was defined as |
unheard harmony of the human body |
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The definition of authentic in modal theory is |
modes in which the melody ranges from a note below the final to approximately an octave above it |
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The use of Greek names for church modes comes from |
a misreading of Greek modal theory |
