Assignment: Grout and Palisca, Chapter 2
Read: 32-60
Skim: 60-70
Study Questions:
3. What are the two parts of the Mass? In general,
how do they differ?--p. 35-36
(and chart on p.
36)
4. What is the difference between Proper and Ordinary?--p. 37
5. Learn to read chant notation--p. 38-40
6. What political circumstances led to the first notation of chant?--p. 42
7. What are the three manners of performing chant?--p. 42
8. How are chants classified, based on the relation of notes to syllables?--p. 42
9. How is the accentuation of the text reflected in a chant melody?--p. 42-43
10. How are chant melodies divided into phrases?--p. 43
11. What are three basic forms of chants?--p. 44
12. How is a psalm tone constructed?—p. 44 How are
psalms sung in antiphonal
performance?--p.
45
13. What is the style of an antiphon? What are independent antiphons?--p. 46
14. What is the form of an Introit?--p. 46
15. What are the peculiar features of a Tract? How
does it employ recurring melodic
formulas*?--p. 47
16. What is the form of a Gradual? What is "centonizaton"?--p. 47
17. How do the form and general character of the
Alleluia differ from the same ele-
ments in older chants
(such as the Tract and Gradual)?--p. 47
18. What Northern characteristics are observable in late chant?--p. 49
19. What is a trope?--p. 49 (Note the difference
between the original and the ex-
tended meaning of
the term**)
20. How did the sequence develop from the Alleluia?--p.
49-50 What is the form
of a typical sequence?--p.
50 What contributions did Notker Balbulus and
Hildegard of Bingen
make to the development of the sequence?--p. 50
21. How is liturgical drama related to a trope?--p.
52 How did liturgical drama ex-
pand and develop
in the later Middle Ages?--p. 53
22. Learn the church modes, to include the finals,
tenors, and ranges of each--p.
55-56
23. What is the only accidental used in chant?--p. 56***
24. How does the system of hexachords account for
all notes of the scale, to include
both B-flat and B-natural?--p.
57-58
25. In general, how did notation change from the
9th to the 11th centuries? What
advantage did the
invention of the staff provide?--p. 59-60
**Class discussion will further restrict the original meaning of this term.
***Class discussion will clarify the reasons for employing this accidental.