MU270 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Reciting Tone, Tone Row, Neume
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Harmonia: ancient greek term: union parts in orderly whole, interval, scale type, style of melody. Ethos: greek word meaning custom: moral and ethical way of behaving, character, mood or emotion effect of certain tones, modes, meter or melody. Liturgy: prescribed body of texts to be spoken or sung and ritual actions to be performed in a religious service (plain) chant: unison unaccompanied song, usually liturgical. Heighted neumes: an early form of notation, neumes is notated with relative height to their pitch, also known as diastematic. Neume: sign used as notation in chant to demonstrate pitch, in early notation melodic direction and later notation particular pitches. Final: main note in a mode, normal closing note of a chant in that mode. Range: span of notes as in the range of a mode. Reciting tone: second most important note of a mode, emphasized often in chant, used for reciting text in a psalm tone.
