Music 1710F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Hildegard Of Bingen, Ordo Virtutum, Guidonian Hand
15 Oct 2014
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Divine office - series of services held at specified times. Mass - ritual reenactment of the last supper. Divine office lauds, prime, terce, sext, none, vespers, compline. Liturgical year revolved around advent, christmas, epiphany, lent, easter, pentecost: relationship of words and music. Urge of embellishment through the chant created chants (were deemed impractical) Cadences end a phrase (cadence = a fall of pitch) Neumatic portions of liturgy with less text had more embellishments. Antiphons in divine office, syllabic, more melodically varied than psalm, recitations: mode. Authentic - ambitus running an octave above the final pitch. Plagal - running fifth above or fourth below the final pitch. In plainchant, 2 main types were typically used: melodic structure. Hexachord - group of 6 notes, which makes up plainchant chord system. Known by solmization syllables - ut, re, mi, fa, so, la. To help students remember this, the guidonian hand was created most structures were just memorized though.
