MUAR 211 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Giovanni Pierluigi Da Palestrina, Guillaume De Machaut, Cantus Firmus
17 Dec 2017
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Liturgy (roman catholic liturgy): systems of prayers and worships of specific religion (services for special occasions) Plainchant (gregorian chant): a genre of music that was the official music of the roman catholic. Nonmetrical: rhythm is free, no set beat/meter. Divine office: private worship observed by community in a monastery. Proper mass: texts that change according to day; choirs and solos. Ordinary mass: texts that are same because sung everyday; entire congregation signs. Church modes (medieval modes): the scales basis for the harmonic language of medieval music. Responsorial performance: solo leader performs verse and the entire congregation answer each verse with following verse or with response. Antiphonal performance: divided into two groups that take turn singing phrases of text. Hildegard of bingen (12th) : saint, visionary, composer, wrote many works of renaissance science, wrote lots of poetry, powerful woman, musical style has expansive range, wide leaps, florid melismas. Drone: single two note chord running continuously th.
