Music Definitions

3. refers to the harmony based on major-minor tonality
5. Western music has used a variety of scale patterns, called ___________.
6. Refers to the various melodic and harmonic types that prevailed in the early and later middle ages.
8. Was the aesthetic principle of the middle ages, centred on God and the teachings of the church
11. First degree of the scale.
15. A section of the mass; the fourth musical moment of the ordinary
16. Were the most important cultural centres of the middle ages. They were ‘microcosms’ of the medieval society.
18. A section of the mass, the third musical moment of the ordinary
19. First item from the ordinary mass, consists of thee phrases sung three times

1. Six note scale
2. (One of the two categories of the mass), texts that vary from day to day throughout the church year depending on the feast being celebrated
4. From the setting of the ordinary, six voices, published in 1667, frequent textural changes.
7. (One of the two categories of the mass), texts that remain the same in every mass
9. Little ascending and descending signs
10. Music for several independent lines
12. An early form of polyphony
13. Bassed on texts commemorating Christ’s last supper
14. A section of the mass; the last musical movement of the ordinary
17. Eight monastic rites chanted daily, based primarily on psalms