MUS 10 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gregorian Chant, Cantus Firmus, Melisma
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800: charlemagne crowned helped to end the dark ages: responsorial audience/chamber responds to the. 1098-1179: hildegard jon bingen one of the most prolific composers we can hear today: woman composer, earliest composer, visionary poet, botanist/naturalist, setting of the kyrie. Centralization off power in western europe through the. Science vs. superstition education (universities) and monks as teachers. Early polyphony note and note: punctus contra punctus counterpart, drone organum bottom voice is static (lower vice singing one note, melistamtic organum. Tenor lower voice (principal voice; borrowed from chant) Liturgy collection of texts worship throughout the year. Mass ordinary text everyday: kyrie, gloria, credo, sanctus, agnus dei. Mass proper text particular to a holiday. Motet chant in long, slow notes with melismatic lines added with text: one of the oldest terms associated with composed art music, motet means different things at different periods. For the moment, think of it as an unaccompanied vocal work, usually in latin, to a sacred text.
