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List the six parts of the Ordinary of the Mass
in order
- Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Ite
- Missa Est
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ORDER: Bernard de ventadorn, Boethius, Hildegard, Perotin, Machaut, Guido, Leonin, Charlemagne, Fall of Rome, Beatrice de Dia, Pythagoras, Elanor of Aquitaine
1. Pythagoras
- 2. Fall of Rome (476
- C.E.)
3. Boethius (480-524)
4. Charlemagne (742-814)
5. Guido de Arrezzo (c. 991-1033)
- 6. Hildegard (12th century
- (1098-1179)
7. Eleanor of Aquitaine (c. 1122-1204)
8. Bernard de Ventadorn (c.1135-c1195)
9. Beatrice de Dia (1175)
10. Leonin (fl. 1160-1201)
11. Perotin (c. 1160-1236)
12. Machaut (c. 1300-1377)
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Identify five events that characterized the
Calamitous 14th Century
- Famine
- Papal schism
- 100 years war
- black death
- economic crisis
- ice age
- political instability
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Identify four reasons why the Messe de
Nostre Dame is significant to the history of Western Music: (6)
- 1. First polyphonic setting of all parts
- of the Mass Ordinary
- 2. All 6 movements written for four voices
- 3. First Cyclic Mass (linked by same
- theme)
- 4. New approach to sonority: voices cover
- larger spectrum
- 5. Cantus placed higher than bass (Contratenor bassus)
- 6. Use of double leading tone cadences.
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Name three innovations attributed to Guido de
Arrezzo
- Guidonian hand
- Solfege
- Created hexachords that isolated the
- isorhythm
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Identify and define the three genres that make
up the forms fixe of 14th
Century France
- Ballade: AAB
- Virelai: AbbaAbbaAbbaA
- Rondeau: ABaAabAB
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Ballade
- AAB
- Three stanzas, each sung to the same
- music and ending with the same line of poetry.
- Formal pattern aab
- The ending of the b section sometimes
- has the same music as the end of the A
- The highest voice, called the cantus or
- melody, carries the tune and is supported by slower-moving lower voices.
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Virelai
- AbbaAbbaAbbaA
- Refrain with stanzas using new material
- Capital letters indicate repetitions of
- both text and music
- Lowercase letters indicate repetition of music
- with new text
- Three stanzas is typical
- Can be a monophonic or polyphonic
- composition
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Rondeau
- ABaAabAB
- The medieval rondeau has two musical
- phrases and a refrain
- There are two musical sections (a and
- b).
- Capital letters sets a text refrain
- Lower case letters used to set a new
- line of poetry
- Varied rhythms, syncopations, stepwise
- melodies, long melismas on structural points
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Discuss the role of music in Ancient Greece
society concentrating on public religious festivals, music in the theatre, and
private festivities
- Olympics (athletics, games, music)
- Paean=hymn to the gods
- Dithyramb=wild party song
- Symposium—social gathering of
- males…drinking, music
- Skolion (song setting of a lyrical
- poem) Epitaph of Seikilos oldest surviving full piece
- All plays sung
- Stasimon Chorus from Orestes
- -papyrus
- -7 fragments exist
- -By Euripides
- music monophonic
- Lyre: seven strings, plucked
- Kithara: seven stringed wooden lyre
- Aulos: wind instrument
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