Music History

The prescribed body of texts to be spoken or sung and the ritual actions to be performed in a religious service.

Dialogue on a sacred subject, set to music and usually performed with action, and linked to the liturgy.

One of the five major musical items in the mass ordinary, based on a Byzantine litany.

In chant,a long melodic passafe sung to a single syllable of text.

A liturgical chant that precedes and concludes a psalm tone that is sung during the Office.

Melismatic style-many notes sung to single syllables

Syllabic- one note sung per syllable

Neumatic- 2-7 notes per syllable of text

Medievil note heads

Leader and most important member of the choir

Two choirs taking turns at singing the chant. One line will go to one half and the next will go to the other half.

The whole chant is sung by the entire choir

Alternation between the Canter singing solo, and the rest of the choir joining in.

A formula of praise to the trinity. to be sung after a psalm.

[ 1.Antiphon/ 2.Psalm/ 3.doxology/ 4. Antiphon ]

A intellect and artist, she founded her own convent and wrote music. Her most famous work Ordo Virtutum

Addition to an existing chant, consisting of either more words, notes, or both.

A method of assigning syllables to steps in a scale, used to make it easier to identify and sing the whole tones and semitones in a melody.

A memorization method to learn the syllables of notes by mapping them out on a hand.

from the 10th century, it is consideered to be one of the oldest liturgical dramas plotted about the birth of Christ

[ 1.Antiphon/ 2.A single psalm verse/ 3.Doxology/ 4.Antiphon ]

the medievil term for polyphonic music.

1. Parallel motion

• 2. Oblique motion
• (oblique motion was usedto avoid undesirable dissonances such as the tritone)

Melodic independence of both voices. contrapuntal and contrary motion.

Note against note polyphony