MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mediatrix, String Instrument, Notre Dame School

• School: McGill University
• Department: Music-Arts Faculty
• Course: MUAR 211
• Professor: Jerry M.Cain

Document Summary

This part is always part of the mass no matter the time of year (therefore part of the mass ordinary) It"s at the beginning, and it is in greek, therefore some parts of roman. Catholic liturgy is in greek (the rest of gregorian chant is in latin: both of these languages were dead languages by the 9th century, they were being maintained by scholars and church authorities with these sacred texts. The church was very involved in preserving learning. There is also a part of the mass which changes depending on the year: roman catholics have the liturgical calendar (as well as the. Episcopalians: for eg: during christmas, you celebrate things about advent, etc. This leads to a huge amount of text and music to memorize, therefore people did this as a profession- they wrote the music, memorized it (this was done before it was written, historically) Another part of the mass ordinary is the gloria.