Intro to Music: Ancient Music Flashcards

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