Music 1711F/G Study Guide - Cantigas De Santa Maria, Gregorian Chant, Bernart De Ventadorn
8 Feb 2013
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Plainchant: monophonic music of the medieval christian church. Liturgy: body of texts prescribed for christian worship services. Chant types roman: liturgical plainchant repertory of the roman catholic church. Shares same liturgy and texts with gregorian chant. Pope gregory i (590-604): the father of christian worship . Pope gregory ii (715-731): defied byzantine emperor leo the isaurian. Metz (france): city in the northeast of france, where gregorian chant developed. St. gall (switzerland): a town in northeastern switzerland. Memory: people remembered chant and passed it down generations. Chant transmission: the tradition of orally transmitting chant through memory. Unheightened (non-diastematic): musical notation that does not indicate pitch height. Heightened (diastematic): musical notation that shows, through the use of staves or careful vertical placement, the pitches of notes. Mode: melodic mode: a scale type with a specific pattern of whole and half steps. The divine office: series of eight services held daily in monasteries, chanting psalms/hymns. Matins, lauds, the little hours: see lecture notes/textbook.
