5310249282 | Healing | Many early cultures believed that music had mysterious ___ powers | 0 | |
5310249283 | Everyone | All music was performed and ____ participated | 1 | |
5310249284 | Down | Most music was verbal and sometimes drums, nothing was written ___. | 2 | |
5310249285 | Improvisation | To freely create or make up as you go along | 3 | |
5310249286 | The Nine Muses | Goddesses of the arts and sciences according to the ancient Greeks. Music comes from the word MUSE. | 4 | |
5310249287 | Oral tradition | Music was passed through __ ___ | 5 | |
5310249288 | Pythagoras | Stated that music and math were inseparable | 6 | |
5310249289 | Pythagoras | -Time is related to rhythm -Vibration is related to pitch | 7 | |
5310249290 | Entertainment | Greeks began to think of music as not just worship but ___ | 8 | |
5310249291 | Plato and Aristotle | Music and gymnastics are the two necessary disciplines of the mind and body. You must develop both to become a complete individual. | 9 | |
5310249292 | Doctrine of Ethos | Ancient set of beliefs that governed Ancient Greek society | 10 | |
5310249293 | Doctrine of Ethos | Music affects character, it imitates passions and states the soul. | 11 | |
5310249294 | Doctrine of Ethos | Listen to the right kind of music, you will become the right kind of person, (same in the reverse) | 12 | |
5310249295 | Categories of music | Sacred and secular | 13 | |
5310249296 | Sacred | Music intended to be used for worship or praise | 14 | |
5310249297 | Secular | Social reasons, entertainment | 15 | |
5310249298 | Instrumental music | Music without words were starting to occur | 16 | |
5310249299 | Hebrew psalms | Sacred music | 17 | |
5310249300 | Sung | Psalms were always ___ | 18 | |
5310249301 | cantors | They were improvised by ___ who passed them down orally. | 19 | |
5310249302 | Responded | The cantor called and the people ___. | 20 | |
5310249303 | Plainsong and plainchant | The liturgical music of the early church was chant, also called | 21 | |
5310249304 | Chant | Pure melody | 22 | |
5310249305 | Chant | Monophonic | 23 | |
5310249306 | Monophonic | Just the melody | 24 | |
5310249307 | Chang | Free rhythm; rhythm is determined by the text | 25 | |
5310285750 | Chant | Very little dynamic contrast | 26 | |
5310285751 | Accappella | Unaccompanied voices, no instruments | 27 | |
5310285752 | Chant | Sung in Latin | 28 | |
5310285753 | Chant | Sung by male voices only | 29 | |
5310285754 | Neumes | Chant was eventually written down using | 30 | |
5310285755 | Neumes | Curved lines put in above the words to suggest direction of the melody. Earliest system of musical notation | 31 | |
5310338086 | Pope Gregory I | Helped organize chants and establish when to use them; he wrote a few chants but fewer have survived | 32 | |
5310338087 | Pope Gregory I | Ordered that all chants be assembled and saved by being written down | 33 | |
5310338088 | Through composed | Uses no religion of stanzas (melodic ideas). ABCDEF. The Salve Regina | 34 | |
5310338089 | Strophic | Uses only one musical idea repeated throughout the chant. AAAAAA | 35 | |
5310351143 | Repetitive | (Similar to rondo) repeats one stanza (musical idea) on an alternating basis with one or two other new ideas. ABACA or ABABAB | 36 | |
5311040117 | Pitch | When discussing melodic styles of chant/singing we are refereeing to the number of times a vocalist changes the ___ on each syllable of text. | 37 | |
5311040118 | Syllabic style | Refers to the music where here is one note sun for each syllable of text | 38 | |
5311040119 | Syllabic style | 2-3 notes per each syllable of text | 39 | |
5311040120 | Syllabic style | This is the most common style of singing used in modern music | 40 | |
5313851213 | Group style | 2-4 notes per syllable | 41 | |
5313851214 | Melismatic style | 10-20 or more notes per each syllable | 42 | |
5313863488 | Music | Is very rarely performed using only one melodic style of singing. It's usually a combo of all three | 43 | |
5313863489 | Most common style | You can only determine the style after listening to the whole thing and use the ___ ____ ___ | 44 | |
5313886728 | Organum | The beginning of harmony, there is a second voice that parallels the first melody, at a distance of a 4th or 5th. It's also the beginning of polyphonic texture. | 45 | |
5313886729 | 2 types of organum | (1) parallel (2) oblique | 46 | |
5313894069 | Polyphonic texture | Several independent parts singing at the same time but not harmony | 47 | |
5313960002 | overlapping | In polyphony there is much ____ of parts voices and can be difficult for the listener to follow | 48 | |
5313960003 | Ars Antiqua | Music of the 12th and 13th centuries are known as ___ ___. This translates to "old art" | 49 | |
5313978675 | Ars Antiqua | -complete rhythmic and melodic independence -triple meter is mostly used -3 part polyphony dominates. | 50 |
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