Midterm study guide for History MUSC 3802

 

J. Smith

 

 

Terms and names: Know: place in history, style or historical point of reference (when), relation to pieces (what)

 

Notre Dame school                    Florid organum               Discant organum        

Mode                                       Duplum                          Vox principalis            

Greater Perfect System              Genera                            Suppressed chant

Vox organalis                            Mass                               Office

Ordinary                                   Proper                             Gradual

Offertory                                  Credo                              Responsory

Ballade                                      forme fixe                       Trope

Troubadours                             Trouveres                        Troubaritz

Winchester Troper                     Magnus Liber                   Roman de Fauvel

Talea                                        Color                              Isorhythm

Solmization                               Goliards                           Jongleurs

Hildegard von Bingen                 Perotin                            Conductus

Santiago de Compostela              Alba                                 Pastourelle

Chanson                                    Motet                               St. Martial

Leonin                                      Machaut                           Ars nova

Ars subilitior                              De Vitry                           Charlemange

 

Works: Know-- composer: genre: style: relevant historical/analytical traits

 

Score study: all assigned pieces.  The mystery score will be similar to one of the works you have studied. The listening test will include questions on stylistic/historical traits.

 

Possible essay topics: role of chant in 9-13th century polyphony: secular poetry & music of the middle ages: development of rhythm in the middle ages: music theory in the middle ages.