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- 3. a religious ceremony based on Jesus’s last meal with his disciples
- 6. also known as Saint Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath.
- 10. Italian monk who founded the Benedictine order about 540 (480-547)
- 11. a medieval melodic formula for singing the psalms and other texts in which most of the text is chanted on a single note
- 12. the notation of Gregorian chant in the liturgical books of the Roman Catholic Church
- 14. a book of commonly used Gregorian chants in the Catholic tradition
- 16. refers to a style of singing first started in 900 AD and culminating in the Boroque era in which a single syllable of text is sung carried through many notes
- 19. five invariant texts sung by the choir
- 20. a hymn or chant, typically with a biblical text, forming a regular part of a church service.
- 22. an anthem said or sung by a soloist and choir after a lesson.
- 25. derives from the Greek τρόπος (tropos), "a turn, a change
- 26. Medieval music written by Guido of Arezzo
- 27. a form or formulary according to which public religious worship
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- 1. the restatement of a motif or longer melodic (or harmonic) passage at a higher or lower pitch in the same voice.
- 2. mnemonic device used to assist singers in learning to sight-sing
- 3. a service of morning prayer in various churches
- 4. simple formulas for declaiming prayers and Bible passages
- 5. evening prayer
- 7. type of play acted within or near the church and relating stories from the Bible and of the saints.
- 8. musical tuning in which the frequencies of notes are related by ratios of small whole numbers
- 9. a system of associating each note of a scale with a particular syllable, especially to teach singing.
- 11. the approximately two dozen prayers of a Mass that change each day to reflect the particular feast day of the liturgical calendar
- 13. Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher of the early 6th century
- 15. sung, recited, or played alternately by two groups
- 17. a short sentence sung or recited before or after a psalm or canticle
- 18. a service of morning prayer it was often held with matins on the previous night
- 21. response sung or recited between the Epistle and Gospel in the Mass.
- 23. a position of authority, trust, or service, typically one of a public nature
- 24. medieval music theory, a change from one hexachord to another
