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Guided Listening Questions
Guided Listening Questions
6. Look at the discant clausula for the word Dominus starting on the third system of p. 69.
Identify the predominant rhythmic mode reflected by each voice.
Trochee
Example 18a and b, p. 76-7: substitute clausulae; compare to the discant clausula starting
on the third system of p. 69
1.
2. The lower voice in all 3 examples has the same series of pitches, but how do they differ?
How do the upper voices of the 3 examples compare to each other?
Different rhythmic modes. Different pitches, same rhythmic modes.
Example 19, p. 79-94: Perotins Viderunt omnes
1.
Has Perotin chosen the same portions of the chant to set as discant clausulae?
No
2. What is the biggest immediate overall difference between Leonins and Perotins settings?
Leonin only uses the rhythmic modes during discant clausulae sections. How does this
compare to Perotins setting?
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3. How can you tell when a cadence occurs in Perotins setting? What intervals do you find at
cadence? How would you describe the vertical dissonances at the start of the second system
on p. 81? (Think of types of non-harmonic tones.)
P5 at cadence. Rest after cadence. Suspension.
4. What do Tr and Q stand for at the start of the score on p. 79?
Triplum and Quadruplum
Review Questions
1. In which century did musical notation begin to develop in Western Europe?
What historical factors, both musical and otherwise, explain this development?
800. Charlemagne standardized the music of the church.
2. Hildegard von Bingen would have been a slightly older contemporary of Leonin. Why did she
apparently not write polyphonic music?
Because a lot of female composers music was listed as anonymous
3. Why was the tenor voice so named in Latin? Identify a related but more modern Italian
musical expression mark. Where might the idea of holding out tones in one voice have come
from in earlier (possibly secular) music?
From tenere which means to hold. Tenor voice had long sustained lines.
Modern term tenuto. ????
4. What was the most important contribution of the Notre Dame School to early music
notation?
Music printing press?