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diatonic
seven note scales usually played on the white keys on the piano
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psalms
poems of praise; Jewish tradition
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cantillation
chanting of sacred text
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rite
each branch of Christianity had one; included church calender, liturgy, plainchant, chant dialects
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centonization
Byzantine tradition; combining standard formulas to make a new melody
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Ambrosian chant
St. Ambrosian of Milan
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Gregorian chant
codification of liturgy and music under Roman leaders; Schola Cantorum
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c: polarity between treble and bass as the two essential lines
Baroque
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C: harmony filled in by improv
Baroque
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C: keys, stability, contrasting moods
Classical
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French, modern, chic, smooth
Galant style
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Text, calendar, organizational tool
liturgy
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Order of Mass
- Introit
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Gradual
- Alleluia
- Credo
- Offertory
- Sanctus
- Agnus Dei
- Communion
- Ite
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Neumes (drawings)
- Punctum .
- Virga /
- Pes ~
- Falling Pitch "s" shape going down to a .
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Modes
- Dorian
- Phrygian
- Lydian
- Mixolydian
- Aeolian
- Ionian
- Locrian
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Southern France
- Troubadour
- Occitan
- Strophic
- courtly love
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Northern France
- Trouvere
- Old French
- Strophic
- Lydian
- courtly love
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Spain
- Cantigas
- Gallician/Gallego
- Strophic
- High society
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Germanic
- Minnelied, Meistersingers
- Middle High German
- war songs
- courtly love
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British Isles
- Rota (cannon)
- Latin, Old English, Occitan
- polyphony
- society, celebratory, middle class courtly love
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Free Organum (Medieval Polyphony)
responsorial, oblique from or parallel to the chant, usually above the chant
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Discant (Medieval Polyphony)
when both parts move almost at the same time
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florid organum (medieval polyphony)
lots of moving notes in the upper part
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Leonin and Perotin
organa composers at the Cathedral of Paris with Master of Arts; both help important positions at Notre Dame. Leonin used discant style.
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Early Motet
more words; notated similar to piano music; tenor set to rhythmic mode; Latin or Old French; two or more voices; two lines of text at once
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Petronian Motet
sometimes no text; instruments play the parts instead; more dense; no score, just parts; lines to line up parts; almost free;
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Franconian Motet
not really free rhythm; tenor is easier to hear; repeating tenor; upper voice has distintive rhythmic shape
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conductus
Latin; strophic; definite rhythmic mode; homorhythmic with ornamentation; poetic sounding; syllabic; sacred text
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