Music History Ch. 5

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The first description of polyphonic music was contained in

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Musica enchiriadis

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Which composer composed quadruplum, or organ for four voices?

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Perotin

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The medieval motet began as an elaboration of or groping of which genre?

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substitue clausulae

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A new system of rhythmic notation based on relationships among the shapes of individual notes and their duration was described in the thirteenth century by

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Franco of Cologne

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The voice that holds the chant melody in called the

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tenor

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Discant is the style of composition used to set the

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melismatic sections of solo portions of chant

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Four characteristics of polyphonic conductus; one not

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-The text was rhymed metrical poetry

-A melisma called a caudal sometimes preceded or followed phrases

-The tenor voice had the same rhythm and speed as the upper voices

-It died out ca. 1250

;The tenor voice did NOT come from Gregorian chant

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The six rhythmic modes were indicated by

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patterns of ligatures

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Ina thirteenth-centry motet, the second voice from the bottom is called

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the duplum

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Organum in which all the voices sing in measured rhythm is called

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discant

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The center of polyphonic composition in the thirteenth century was

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Paris

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The most outstanding feature of the Petrofina motet is

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a faster-moving triple voice than in previous motet styles

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The writer who named two composers of the Notre Dame school was

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Anonymous IV

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The Magnus Liber Organi was

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a book of organum begun by Leonin and updated by Perotin

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List three sources of organum in chronological order

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Musica enchiriadis; Ad organum faciendum; Magnus Liber Organi

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By the twelfth century, cadences on an octave were typically preceded by

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Contrary motion from a sixth

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What genre could have words in both French and Latin?

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motet

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The Worcester fragments are

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sources of Latin-texted polyphony from the thirteenth century

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two characteristics of thirteenth-centruy English music

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Preference for voice-exchange

Preference for imperfect consonances