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| What did medival music mostly consist of? Why was this? |
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| Vocals. The church frowned on instruments because of their earlier association with pagan rites. |
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| What was the most common instument used in church music after 1000? |
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| What was lacking in the first forms of notation music? |
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| offical music of the ROman Catholic Church. Melody set to sacred latin texts and sunch without accompaniment, MONOPHONIC. |
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| Why is it called Gregorian Chant? |
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| named after Pope Gregory the first who reorganized the catholic liturgy. |
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| When were the earliest surviving chant manuscripts? |
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| What were the two types of services the Chants were sung at? |
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| Why were the chants first notated? |
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| To ensure uniformity throughout the western church. |
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| like our scales had 7 diff tones and an 8th that duplicates the first an octave higher.patterns of whole and half steps are different. |
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| abess of Rupertsbeg in germany. first woman composer for whom a large number of works have survived. |
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| one or more long sustained tones accompanying a melody |
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| first secular songs surviving in decipherable notations were composed by whom? |
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| French nobles known as toubadours and trouveres |
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| what did most secular songs speak about? |
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| LOVE. but also the crusades, dance songs and spinning songs. |
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| what were the wandering musicians called and how were they considered. |
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| jongleurs. no civil rights, lowest social level. |
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| medival dance. triple meter with strong fast beat. |
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| bowed string instrument (chordophone) |
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| tubular wind instrument (aerophone) |
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| What happened between 700 and 900 that transformed western music? |
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| monks in monastery choirs began to add a second line to Gregorian chant. (polyphony) |
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| medical music that consists of one or more additional melodic lines |
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| 2nd improvised melodic line moving in paralell motion with the melody usually at the interval of a fourth or a fifth |
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| what was paris? what did it become? |
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| the intellectual and artistic capital of Europe. became the center of polyphonic music. |
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who was the first composer known to write music with more than two voices? |
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| why did the beat for medival music always have to be divided in threes? |
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| cahnt ath is used as the basis for polyphony (fixed melody) |
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| why did secular music become more important than sacred music in the 14th century? |
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| Hundred years war, Bubonic plague, weakening of the feudal system and the catholic church. |
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| "new art" changes in musical style in the 14th century |
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| an italian poetic and musical form that originated as a dance form. |
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| mass ordinary (what are the 5?) |
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| texts that remain the same from day to day throughout the church year. (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei) |
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