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Music History Study Guide
Study Guide for Test 1
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Undergraduate 3
09/07/2012

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What is an Aulos?
Definition
Predecessor to the oboe with a face mask (Phorbein) with two pipes and two reeds
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What is a Bucina?
Definition
A Large brass instrument that wrapped around the body
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What is a Lyre?
Definition
An early harp-like instrument
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What is a Kithara?
Definition
A large harp-like instrument related to the double-bass
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What was special about Greek music?
Definition
It tied in with poetry, astronomy, and was monophonic
Term
What early music educator thought only certain types of music were acceptable and complex rhythms were not?
Definition
Plato
Term
Who is credited with writing the first music theory book with rhythm of music based on rhythm of words?
Definition
Aristoxenus
Term
When did the Middle Ages occur?
Definition
400-1000 A.D.
Term
What did people of the Middle Ages think caused your sickness?
Definition
Your everyday actions
Term
What does secular mean?
Definition
Music outside of the church
Term
What was the early church influenced by?
Definition
Jewish church rituals, songs, etc.
Term
Where did the Catholic church develop?
Definition
Rome
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What king merged the churches, unified a certain area, and was illiterate?
Definition
Charlemagne (768-884)
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For whom was the Gregorian chant named?
Definition
Pope Gregory I (540-604)
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How did Pope Gregory I develop the Gregorian chant?
Definition
God came to him in the form of a dove
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What man born in Italy wrote the book "The Fundamentals of Music"?
Definition
Boethius (480-524)
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What was the main religion during the Middle Ages?
Definition
Christianity
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What was the official language during the middle ages?
Definition
Latin
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What was the main genre of music during the Middle ages?
Definition
The Gregorian Chant
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How was music transferred from one person to another?
Definition
Passed along by ear
Term
What were the early forms of notation called?
Definition
Neumes
Term
Who is credited with being the father of notation, wrote a textbook on notation (Micrologus), was the 1st important music educator, developed solfege, had a system of modes with no leading tone, developed a red line in chants, and developed a special hand, of sorts for singing pitches?
Definition
Guido Monoco (991-1033)
Term
What is a Liturgy?
Definition
The order of a church service a.k.a. a program
Term
What was the focal point of the Catholic Church?
Definition
The Mass
Term
What was built bigger than everything else to promote gathering and could take over 100 years to build?
Definition
A church
Term
What part of the Mass is missing from The Ordinary? Introit, Kyrie, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei?
Definition
Gloria
Term
What part of the Mass is missing from The Ordinary? Introit, Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, and Agnus Dei?
Definition
Sanctus
Term
What part of the Mass is missing from The Ordinary? Introit, Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, and Credo?
Definition
Agnus Dei
Term
What part of the Mass is missing from The Ordinary? Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei?
Definition
Introit
Term
What part of the Mass is missing from The Ordinary? Introit, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei?
Definition
Kyrie
Term
What part of the Mass is missing from The Ordinary? Introit, Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei?
Definition
Credo
Term
What part of The Ordinary has songs performed during specific times of the year?
Definition
Proper
Term
Which Office is missing? Matins, Lauds, Prime, Sext, Nones, Vespers, Compline?
Definition
Terce
Term
Which Office is missing? Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, Nones, Vespers, Compline?
Definition
Matins
Term
Which Office is missing? Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Nones, Vespers, Compline?
Definition
Sext
Term
Which Office is missing? Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, Vespers, Compline?
Definition
Nones
Term
Which Office is missing? Matins, Prime, Terce, Sext, Nones, Vespers, Compline?
Definition
Lauds
Term
Which Office is missing? Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, Nones, Vespers?
Definition
Compline
Term
Which Office is missing? Matins, Lauds, Terce, Sext, Nones, Vespers, Compline?
Definition
Prime
Term
Which Office is missing? Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, Nones, Compline?
Definition
Vespers
Term
How was early text copied down?
Definition
By hand, texts kept within a Missal while chants were collected in a Gradual
Term
What is a collection of chants filled with transcribed pages?
Definition
Liber Usualis
Term
Unison or in response, written in Latin, no big leaps of skips, and monophonic are all characteristics of what type of music?
Definition
Chants
Term
What text setting describes a song where every syllable gets its own note?
Definition
Syllabic
Term
What text setting describes a song where there is more than one note per syllable?
Definition
Melesmatic
Term
What text setting describes a combination of one note syllables and many note syllables?
Definition
Neumatic
Term
What is it called when a congregation follows a pattern set by a song leader?
Definition
Psalm Tones
Term
What is it called when you extend a chant's beginning and ending?
Definition
Antiphon
Term
What was the New Year's Celebration for the Church called?
Definition
Feast of Fools
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What are melodies added to chants to make them more interesting called?
Definition
Tropes
Term
What is a way to extend chants with melismas called?
Definition
Sequence
Term
What was a small scale play performed by everyone in a village called?
Definition
Liturgical Drama
Term
What play was an early forerunner of Opera and was created in Beauvais Cathedral?
Definition
The Play of David
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What famous woman composer was born in Germany to a wealthy family, raised in a monastery, wrote music at 42, published different works on Sciences, Sexual books, wrote 77 chants, and also composed Ordo Virtutum?
Definition
Hildegard of Bingen
Term
What was the Ordo Virtutum?
Definition
Written by Hildegard of Bingen, it was a "play on morals" with three main characters; happy, sad, and pentative souls
Term
What meetings that lasted for several years helped modernize the Church, changed music and languages, and updated attire?
Definition
The Vatican II Council
Term
What is "Music of the Universe" called?
Definition
Musica Mundana
Term
What is "Music that unifies body and soul" called?
Definition
Musica Humana
Term
What is "Music produced by instruments" called?
Definition
Musica Instramentalis
Term
What were the independent military campaigns called?
Definition
The Crusades
Term
What priest was an important writer and philosopher whose family did not want him to go into priesthood?
Definition
St. Thomas Aquinas
Term
What group of secular musicians performed acts, sold "fix all" potions, juggled, and provided means of communication between towns?
Definition
Jongleurs
Term
What were the SOUTHERN French poets who stayed in one place called?
Definition
Troubadours
Term
What were the NORTHERN French poets who stayed in one place called?
Definition
Trouveres
Term
What was a collection of songs called?
Definition
Chansonnier
Term
What was a wealthy young man who wrote songs about pleasure called?
Definition
A Golliard
Term
What kind of plays dealt with love, with a famous one named "The Play of Robin and Marion" or Jeu de Robin et de Marion-Rondeau composed by Adam de la Halle?
Definition
Musical Plays
Term
What Trouvere wrote polyphonic and monophonic music, was called hunchback, and composed Jeu de Robin et de Marion-Rondeau?
Definition
Adam de la Halle
Term
What were Spanish secular songs called?
Definition
Cantigas de la Santa Maria
Term
What was the Medieval violin-like, 5-stringed bow instrument with a drone string called?
Definition
Vielle
Term
What modified Vielle had a hand crank and one drone string and a funny name?
Definition
Hurdy Gurdy
Term
What instrument was triangle shaped and strung with a pick?
Definition
Psaltery
Term
What was the double reed, oboe ancestor WITHOUT the strap called?
Definition
Shawm
Term
What was the instrument that was basically a long, 180 degree trumpet?
Definition
Herald trumpet
Term
What joint instrument was popular with Jongleurs and included a wind and percussion instrument?
Definition
Pipe and Tabor
Term
What was the name of the portable organ?
Definition
Portative Organ
Term
What was the name of the large organ that had a cabinet covering the pipes?
Definition
Positive Organ
Term
What were the earliest forms of polyphony (chants)?
Definition
Organum
Term
What type of organum is a counter melody to another one
Definition
Discant Organum
Term
What type of organum was "fancy" and had more notes on the top than on the bottom?
Definition
Florid Organum
Term
What cathedral in Paris was the center of organum , had the beginnings of rhythm with long notes being called Longs and short notes being called Breves, and took 100+ years to build?
Definition
Cathedral of Notre Dame
Term
What was the collection of the best organum written by Anonymous IV called?
Definition
Magnus Liber Organi
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Who was the composer of organum who came from a monastery credited with writing Viderunt omnes: organum duplum?
Definition
Leoninus (and colleagues)
Term
Who was considered the greatest organum writer, had a Masters degree from the University of Paris, added parts to existing organum, created organum for 2,3,&4 voices, and is credited with composing Viderunt omnes: organum quadruplum?
Definition
Perotinus
Term
What is the addition to organum to make it more beautiful called?
Definition
Clausulae
Term
What type of 13th century music was inspired by chants or newly composed?
Definition
Motets
Term
What were Rounds developed in England called?
Definition
Rotas
Term
What illness passed by rats between 1347-1351 caused mass death and turn the skin black with boils?
Definition
The Bubonic Plague or Black Death
Term
What war between England and France cause the church to become divided, gave rise to many popes, and was during the period of the invention of glasses and compasses?
Definition
The 100 Years War
Term
What famous writer fought for France in the Crusades, wrote "The Divine Comedy", and came from an affluent family?
Definition
Dante Alighieri
Term
What English writer, poet, and alchemist, born into a family of wine makers, credited with writing "Canterbury Tales", and is buried in Westminster Abbey?
Definition
Geoffery Chaucer
Term
What New Art combination of secular and sacred music did the rise of secular music bring about?
Definition
Ars Nova
Term
What is rhythm that continues in the bass line called?
Definition
Isorhythm
Term
What is an echo-like alternation of voices in equal dynamics called?
Definition
Hocket
Term
Who was the lead composer in the Ars Nova who survived the Black Death, was one of the first composers to explain composition, and is credited with composing Foy Porter-virelai and Messe de Notre Dame?
Definition
Guillaume de Machaut
Term
What type of music imitated the new emerging forms of art?
Definition
Trecento Music
Term
Who wrote the Decameron, a story over a 10-day period describing friends avoiding the Plague?
Definition
Boccacio
Term
Who was the blind man who contracted small pox and incorporated a cadence with a leap of a third at the end?
Definition
Francisco Landini
Term
What is it called when you avoid the tritone by adjusting the music or "false music"?
Definition
Musica Ficta
Term
What is two-voice organum called?
Definition
Organum Duplum
Term
What is three-voice organum called?
Definition
Organum Triplum
Term
What is four-voice organum called?
Definition
Organum Quadruplum
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