CH 14

What are the daily Offices?

A series of services celebrated in religious communities at various hours of the day.

What is the Mass?

Both a reenactment of Christ's Last Supper with his disciples and the primary (and most solemn) ritual of the Roman Catholic Church.

Hildegard's Alleluia, O virgo mediatrix is a Gregorian chant.

False

Hildegard of Bingen was born into a _____ noble family

German

The text of the Kyrie is based on a _______ prayer.

Greek

_______, little ascending and descending signs written above the words that suggested the shape of the melodic line, helped singers remember the general shapes of the different melodies.

Neumes

In regards to Hildegard of Bingen, which statement is NOT true?

She was the first to notate plainchant.

Which of the following is NOT true of Gregorian chant (plainchant) melodies?

They are in Hebrew and Syrian

What does antiphonal mean?

a performance style that alternates between two groups

The Mass Proper

contains prayer texts that vary from day to day throughout the church year.

The Mass Ordinary

contains the texts that remain the same in every Mass.

In the Middle Ages, it was assumed that women were worthy of connection with the divine.

false

Pope Gregory the Great composed all of the Gregorian chant melodies.

false

The text setting in Alleluia, O virga mediatrix is mostly syllabic.

false

The musical attributes of plainchant include all of the following except

it is in a major key

The set order of services and structure of each church service is known as

liturgy

In plainchant from the Middle Ages, if there are many notes per syllable, the style is called

melismatic

How many Gregorian chants survive?

over three thousand

Music performed with exchanges between a soloist and chorus is called

responsorial

Modal melodies of the early Christian church are similar to melodies and scales from

the Middle East

What might explain why medieval chants can sound unfamiliar to a modern listener?

they are modal

Hildegard's chant Alleluia, O virga mediatrix was intended for performance on a feast day of the Virgin Mary.

true

Starting in the Middle Ages, monasteries fostered the development of worship music.

true

Those who sang Gregorian plainchant during the Middle Ages believed it had been composed by the divine and not the human mind.

true

What musical aspect is found in Hildegard's praise songs, but is not found in most Gregorian chant?

wide leaps