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The Middle Ages
IB music chapter 2 flashcards
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11th Grade
10/13/2009

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Dark Ages (time)
Definition
450-1000
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Gothic Period (time)
Definition
1000-1150
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Romanesque Period (time)
Definition
1150-1450
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What did medival music mostly consist of? Why was this?
Definition
Vocals. The church frowned on instruments because of their earlier association with pagan rites.
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What was the most common instument used in church music after 1000?
Definition
Organ
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What was lacking in the first forms of notation music?
Definition
indication of rythem
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What is Gregorian Chant
Definition
offical music of the ROman Catholic Church. Melody set to sacred latin texts and sunch without accompaniment, MONOPHONIC.
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Why is it called Gregorian Chant?
Definition
named after Pope Gregory the first who reorganized the catholic liturgy.
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When were the earliest surviving chant manuscripts?
Definition
ninth century
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What were the two types of services the Chants were sung at?
Definition
Office and Mass
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Why were the chants first notated?
Definition
To ensure uniformity throughout the western church.
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Church Modes
Definition
like our scales had 7 diff tones and an 8th that duplicates the first an octave higher.patterns of whole and half steps are different. 
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Hildegard of Bingen
Definition
abess of Rupertsbeg in germany. first woman composer for whom a large number of works have survived.
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drone
Definition
one or more long sustained tones accompanying a melody
Term
first secular songs surviving in decipherable notations were composed by whom?
Definition
French nobles known as toubadours and trouveres
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what did most secular songs speak about?
Definition
LOVE. but also the crusades, dance songs and spinning songs.
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what were the wandering musicians called and how were they considered.
Definition
jongleurs. no civil rights, lowest social level.
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estampie
Definition
medival dance. triple meter with strong fast beat.
Term
rebec
Definition
bowed string instrument (chordophone)
Term
pipe
Definition
tubular wind instrument (aerophone)
Term
What happened between 700 and 900 that transformed western music?
Definition
monks in monastery choirs began to add a second line to Gregorian chant. (polyphony)
Term
organum
Definition
medical music that consists of one or more additional melodic lines
Term
how did organum begin?
Definition
2nd improvised melodic line moving in paralell motion with the melody usually at the interval of a fourth or a fifth
Term
what was paris? what did it become?
Definition
the intellectual and artistic capital of Europe. became the center of polyphonic music.
Term

who was the first composer known to write music with more than two voices?

Definition
Perotin
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why did the beat for medival music always have to be divided in threes?
Definition
sign of the trinity
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cantus firmus
Definition
cahnt ath is used as the basis for polyphony (fixed melody)
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why did secular music become more important than sacred music in the 14th century?
Definition
Hundred years war, Bubonic plague, weakening of the feudal system and the catholic church.
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ars nova
Definition
"new art"  changes in musical style in the 14th century
Term
ballata
Definition
an italian poetic and musical form that originated as a dance form.
Term
mass ordinary (what are the 5?)
Definition
texts that remain the same from day to day throughout the church year. (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei)
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