MUSI 1001 Study Guide - Plainsong, Oboe, Gregorian Chant

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Music
• Course: MUSI 1001
• Professor: Deepthi Kamawar

Document Summary

Mass- central religious service of the rc church, one that incorporates singing for spiritual reflection or as accompaniment to sacred acts. Gregorian chant (plainsong)- a large body of unaccompanied monophonic vocal music, set to. Latin texts, composed for the western church over the course of fifteen centuries, from the time of the earliest fathers of the council of trent musical notation- a new medium of communication during this time. Was dashes and dots called notae which indicted the upward and downward motion of melody but not much else. syllabic singing- a style of singing in which each syllable of text has one, and only one, note. Opposite of melismatic. melismatic singing- many notes sung to just one syllable. Modern people do it a lot in pop. Organum- the name given to the early polyphony of the western church from the ninth to thirteenth centuries.