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Intro to Music: Ancient Music Flashcards

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5310249282HealingMany early cultures believed that music had mysterious ___ powers0
5310249283EveryoneAll music was performed and ____ participated1
5310249284DownMost music was verbal and sometimes drums, nothing was written ___.2
5310249285ImprovisationTo freely create or make up as you go along3
5310249286The Nine MusesGoddesses of the arts and sciences according to the ancient Greeks. Music comes from the word MUSE.4
5310249287Oral traditionMusic was passed through __ ___5
5310249288PythagorasStated that music and math were inseparable6
5310249289Pythagoras-Time is related to rhythm -Vibration is related to pitch7
5310249290EntertainmentGreeks began to think of music as not just worship but ___8
5310249291Plato and AristotleMusic and gymnastics are the two necessary disciplines of the mind and body. You must develop both to become a complete individual.9
5310249292Doctrine of EthosAncient set of beliefs that governed Ancient Greek society10
5310249293Doctrine of EthosMusic affects character, it imitates passions and states the soul.11
5310249294Doctrine of EthosListen to the right kind of music, you will become the right kind of person, (same in the reverse)12
5310249295Categories of musicSacred and secular13
5310249296SacredMusic intended to be used for worship or praise14
5310249297SecularSocial reasons, entertainment15
5310249298Instrumental musicMusic without words were starting to occur16
5310249299Hebrew psalmsSacred music17
5310249300SungPsalms were always ___18
5310249301cantorsThey were improvised by ___ who passed them down orally.19
5310249302RespondedThe cantor called and the people ___.20
5310249303Plainsong and plainchantThe liturgical music of the early church was chant, also called21
5310249304ChantPure melody22
5310249305ChantMonophonic23
5310249306MonophonicJust the melody24
5310249307ChangFree rhythm; rhythm is determined by the text25
5310285750ChantVery little dynamic contrast26
5310285751AccappellaUnaccompanied voices, no instruments27
5310285752ChantSung in Latin28
5310285753ChantSung by male voices only29
5310285754NeumesChant was eventually written down using30
5310285755NeumesCurved lines put in above the words to suggest direction of the melody. Earliest system of musical notation31
5310338086Pope Gregory IHelped organize chants and establish when to use them; he wrote a few chants but fewer have survived32
5310338087Pope Gregory IOrdered that all chants be assembled and saved by being written down33
5310338088Through composedUses no religion of stanzas (melodic ideas). ABCDEF. The Salve Regina34
5310338089StrophicUses only one musical idea repeated throughout the chant. AAAAAA35
5310351143Repetitive(Similar to rondo) repeats one stanza (musical idea) on an alternating basis with one or two other new ideas. ABACA or ABABAB36
5311040117PitchWhen discussing melodic styles of chant/singing we are refereeing to the number of times a vocalist changes the ___ on each syllable of text.37
5311040118Syllabic styleRefers to the music where here is one note sun for each syllable of text38
5311040119Syllabic style2-3 notes per each syllable of text39
5311040120Syllabic styleThis is the most common style of singing used in modern music40
5313851213Group style2-4 notes per syllable41
5313851214Melismatic style10-20 or more notes per each syllable42
5313863488MusicIs very rarely performed using only one melodic style of singing. It's usually a combo of all three43
5313863489Most common styleYou can only determine the style after listening to the whole thing and use the ___ ____ ___44
5313886728OrganumThe 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
53138867292 types of organum(1) parallel (2) oblique46
5313894069Polyphonic textureSeveral independent parts singing at the same time but not harmony47
5313960002overlappingIn polyphony there is much ____ of parts voices and can be difficult for the listener to follow48
5313960003Ars AntiquaMusic of the 12th and 13th centuries are known as ___ ___. This translates to "old art"49
5313978675Ars Antiqua-complete rhythmic and melodic independence -triple meter is mostly used -3 part polyphony dominates.50

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