MUSIC 27 Quiz: Quiz 1 Study Guide
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The middle ages: music was determined by the christian church (the church cultivated, supported, and directed music as it did art, poetry etc) Plainchant or gregorian chant : the official music of the catholic. Church in the middle ages (repertory of melodies designated for the liturgy). Antiphon: a genre of plainchant, usually workaday little pieces. Melismatic: many single syllables accommodating groups of two or three notes (groups are called melismas) Sequences: the immediate repetition of a melodic/rhythmic pattern on a different pitch. Drone: a single two-note chord running continuously. Genre- sequence (a series of short tunes sung twice, with some variation) Non-metric: the lifestyle of monks and nuns suggested by the plainchant. Monks and nuns in the middle ages spent an amazing amount of their time in prayer, singing in lengthy ceremonies. In monasteries, the entire set of 150 psalms had to be sung every week, in an intricate and rigid fashion.
