MUS 565 Week 1 Vocabulary
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Lyre | A chordophone with seven strings and a soundbox made of tortoise shell and oxhide. The lyre's strings are plucked while the instrument is on the musician's hip. It is associated with the greek god, Apollo, and it accompanied in epic poetry recitation, singing and dancing. |
| Kithara | A large lyre that was primarily used in sacred ceremonies and pocessionals. |
| Melos | The root word of melody. The term was used to classify music when it is a performing art. |
| Ethos | A term used to describe a person's ethical or moral character. Plato and Aristotle believed that music in certain modes can affect a person's ethos. |
| Greater Perfect System | Spanning two octaves it contains a set of four tetrachords and an added note, named proslambanomenos, that was lowest note. |
| Diatonic | The oldest and most recognized tetrachord genus. It has two whole steps and a half step. |
| Enharmonic | Considered by Aristoxenus as the most refined tetrachord genus, it contains a major third and two quarter tones. |
| Psalms | Poems of praise, mostly attributed with David, a King of Israel. They are from the Book of Psalms found in the First Testament of the Bible. |
| Cantillation | The chanting of scared text. It was used in synagogues during the reading of Scripture. |
| Ambrosian Chant | The ecclesiastical chant used in Milan. It was named after St. Ambrose, a bishop of Milan in that late fourth century. |
| Schola Cantorum | A choir founded in the late seventh century that sang when the pope officiated. It is said that they played a role in standardizing chant text early in the eighth century. |
| Gregorian Chant: | The ecclesiastical chant used in the Roman Catholic Church. It was created by Roman leaders and Frankish kings. |
| Old Roman Chant | The ecclesiastical chant that is a close relative to Gregorian Chant. It was preserved from the eleventh and twelfth century manuscripts of local Roman tradition. |
| Authentic | A term to classify a mode where it spans a step below the finalis to an octave above it. |
| Plagal | A term to classify a mode where it spans from a fourth below the finalis to a fifth or sixth above it. |
| Final | Used to be known as the finalis, it is the main note of a mode. It can usually be found as the final note of a chant. |
| Liturgical Drama | Plays using sacred text as the dialogue and set to music. They were usually performed during Easter or Christmas. |
| Hildegard von Bingen | A nun whom founded her won convent and composed music. She composed mostly antiphons and responsories and sequences. She also composed Ordo virtutum, the earliest music drama not connected to the liturgy. |
| Sequences | A musical genre associated with the Mass. It is sung after the Alleluia. The music is syllabic and the text is usually in couplets. |
| Trope | The expansion of an existing chant by: 1) adding new words and music before and between phrases 2) extending melismatic passages or creating new passages 3) adding new text to existing melismatic passages |
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