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