form of music during the middle Ages was the Gregorian chant‚ named for Pope Gregory I. This music was used in the Catholic Churches to enhance the services. It consisted of a sacred Latin text sung by monks without instrumentation. The chant is sung in a monophonic texture‚ which means there is only one line of music. It has a free-flowing rhythm with little or no set beat. The chants were originally all passed through oral tradition‚ but the chants became so numerous that the monks began to
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Bingen was a very respected figure in the twelfth century Catholic Church for her prophesies‚ scientific writing‚ medical writing‚ and religious poetry. Her chant‚ Alleluia‚ O virga mediatrix‚ is a praise for the Virgin Mary which exemplifies the Gregorian chant genre of the Middle Ages. The most defining characteristics of a Gregorian chant‚ or plainchant‚ is the single-line melody and melismatic text setting. This gives the piece a freely flowing vocal line‚ allowing the music to follow the inflexions
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UNIT THREE: Music Appreciation Text Questions Please complete the following questions. Answer the questions on this document. Submit your work as a file attachment. This means you complete all work in a word processing document (e.g.‚ Microsoft Word) and attach the file using the dropbox tool. The answers to the Text questions are worth 75 points. 75-70=A 69-64=B 63-56=C 55-50=D 49 or less = F Review Questions (5 points each) 1. What is the Hurrian song? Why is it important? The Hurrian song is
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As time changes‚ so does the calendar. In 1793‚ the Gregorian calendar was replaced by a new one. Dates were moved‚ months renamed and the number of days in a week increased. The reason for a new calendar in France was to change and fix what was wrong in the original calendar. People who were with the new calendar approved it‚ for it provided more work and and a better resting day. For those who were against the new calendar‚ claimed that it made working life more difficult and that it was against
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the effects of musical notation on music‚ society‚ and composers? Its lets more than one person or rhythm to a song. 5. Describe medieval music’s relationship with the Catholic Church. How was the music influenced by the Church? They use the Gregorian Chant.
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a process that occurred gradually. The earliest chant notation was notated on signs called neumes whose function was mainly to graphically provided a gesture or movement‚ not specific pitches yet. It was until the 11th century that these neumes were alligned according to the pitches to be sung in a one-line or two-line staff as reference of a fixed pitch. Then‚ in the 13th and 14th centuries as more lines were added to the staff‚ the Gregorian Chant was written down in tetragramma and movable clefs
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Greece. A group called the Pythagoras one day decided to experiment with some acoustics to see how math related to the tone from plucking the strings. They were fascinated by what they heard and bought it to the church for everyone to hear. The Gregorian chant‚ which consisted of a very scared Latin text was sung by monks without instruments‚ was used to enhance there church services. Towards the end of the middle ages‚ music began to get so popular it started to move outside the churches. We go into
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of styles of genres. Among the earliest of these styles are those of the Church. The earliest French influence on western music is found in the plainsong of the Christian Church. It is believed that Gregorian chant as it is known today is an 8th- or 9th-century Gallican interpretation of Roman chant‚ but it is difficult to distinguish the Gallican work from its Roman basis. It has been said that the basic theory of the trope (an outburst in a preexistent hymn) is Gallican and that the surviving body
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Middle Ages‚ one needs to understand how both music practices were created. Before these styles was monophonic structure. Deriving from Gregorian chant‚ music was primarily based on one melody only singing through chant style. Based mostly on religious uses‚ monophonic structure moved forward to polyphonic structure (adding another line of music to the existing chant/text). This step was one of the most important music history moments of Western music. A style of polyphony that was created was organum
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Religion ’s Profound Effect on Musical Development Religion has been an important part of man ’s life. Man has allowed religion to control and influence his life in many different ways‚ affecting both his behavior and his actions. So its not surprising that music‚ one of man ’s earliest expressive forms‚ has also been influenced by religion. Religion has had an effect on man ’s music all throughout history‚ from the early Egyptians to even now. So it is only natural that Western music should
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