music appreciation study guide 2
Part 2 Study Guide
Middle Ages
Dates: 450-1450
1. What was going historically during this era? What was life like?
The era began with the disintegration of the Roman Empire and ended with the cultural reawakening of the Renaissance. The era whiteness a fairly unorganized Europe with lots of individual small towns, feudalism, the majority of people are uneducated and illiterate with the exception of the clergy and priests. At the end of the era universities were founded, towns grew and with it gothic cathedrals were built. Feudalism was on its way out and so was the authority of the churches.
2.Who or what had the power?
The Roman Catholic Church had supreme authority
3.Who were learned or literate?
The educated/literate people were the church officials such as monks, clerics, and priests
4.Who were allowed to sing in church?
The priests and the choir
5.Most of the music that was notated during the middle ages was sacred or secular?
Sacred
6.Was most medieval music vocal?
Yes
7.What is Gregorian Chant? Discuss its origin, texture, melody, rhythm, text. How did it receive its name? What is its purpose?
Official music of the Roman Catholic Church. Monophonic melody set to sacred Latin text, Calm otherworldly quality. Represents voice of the church instead of individual. Flexible rhythm- improvisational character. Melodies tend to move by step in a narrow range. Named for Pope Gregory 1 (509-604)
8.When chant was notated, was the rhythm notated or just the melody?
Just the melody
9.What are church modes?
Scales used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance- the major/minor tonal system had not yet been invented.
10.What is the Mass?
Is a sacred ritual of the Roman Catholic church in which a collection of psalms and prayers are spoken and/or sung.
11.What is the Mass Proper?
Are those items that are special for a particular feast day.
12.What is the Mass Ordinary?
Are those prayer and psalm that remain the same
Middle Ages
Dates: 450-1450
1. What was going historically during this era? What was life like?
The era began with the disintegration of the Roman Empire and ended with the cultural reawakening of the Renaissance. The era whiteness a fairly unorganized Europe with lots of individual small towns, feudalism, the majority of people are uneducated and illiterate with the exception of the clergy and priests. At the end of the era universities were founded, towns grew and with it gothic cathedrals were built. Feudalism was on its way out and so was the authority of the churches.
2.Who or what had the power?
The Roman Catholic Church had supreme authority
3.Who were learned or literate?
The educated/literate people were the church officials such as monks, clerics, and priests
4.Who were allowed to sing in church?
The priests and the choir
5.Most of the music that was notated during the middle ages was sacred or secular?
Sacred
6.Was most medieval music vocal?
Yes
7.What is Gregorian Chant? Discuss its origin, texture, melody, rhythm, text. How did it receive its name? What is its purpose?
Official music of the Roman Catholic Church. Monophonic melody set to sacred Latin text, Calm otherworldly quality. Represents voice of the church instead of individual. Flexible rhythm- improvisational character. Melodies tend to move by step in a narrow range. Named for Pope Gregory 1 (509-604)
8.When chant was notated, was the rhythm notated or just the melody?
Just the melody
9.What are church modes?
Scales used in the Middle Ages and Renaissance- the major/minor tonal system had not yet been invented.
10.What is the Mass?
Is a sacred ritual of the Roman Catholic church in which a collection of psalms and prayers are spoken and/or sung.
11.What is the Mass Proper?
Are those items that are special for a particular feast day.
12.What is the Mass Ordinary?
Are those prayer and psalm that remain the same