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| Consisting of a single unaccompanied melodic line. |
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| Also known as plainchant, comes from broadening meaning of text, from Pope Gregory who was standardizing liturgy |
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| Chant sung before and after a song. * used in the OFFICE. Matins includes nine Great Responsories, and several other office services include a Short Responsory. |
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| Soloist sings, responded by the choir. * used in the OFFICE. Matins includes nine Great Responsories, and several other office services include a Short Responsory. |
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| Series of tones of five elements –antiphon, intonation, tenor, mediation, termination. A MELODIC formula for singing PSALMS in the OFFICE. There is one psalm tone for each MODE. |
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| a manner of performance in which two or more groups alternate |
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| Addition to an existing CHANT, consisting of (1) words and MELODY; (2) a MELISMA; or (3) words only, set to an existing melisma or other melody. |
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| Put text to melisma, edited to jubilus of Alleluia *A category of Latin CHANT that follows the ALLELUIA in some MASSES. |
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| Chants strum together to teach a scriptural text or concept. *Dialogue on a sacred subject, set to music and usually performed with action, and linked to the LITURGY. |
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| Typically voiced a 4th below the chant |
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| Principle voice who held the chant as other lines made polyphony with it *(1) In a MODE or CHANT, the RECITING TONE. (2) In POLYPHONY of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the voice part that has the chant or other borrowed MELODY, often in long-held NOTES |
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| Music or musical texture consisting of two or more simultaneous lines of independent melody |
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| Note-against-note occurring against tenor, generally faster than other parts of the organum. *Twelfth-century style of POLYPHONY in which the upper voice or voices have about one to three NOTES for each note of the lower voice. |
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| Section of music written in discant *In NOTRE DAME POLYPHONY, a self-contained section of an ORGANUM that closes with a CADENCE. |
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| Earliest polyphony we know of, in which harmony is set a 4th below the original chant. *A piece, whether IMPROVISED or written, in one of those styles, in which one voice is drawn from a CHANT. |
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| Twelfth-century style of two-voice POLYPHONY in which the lower voice sustains relatively long NOTES while the upper voice sings note-groups of varying length above each note of the lower voice |
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