Cheatography
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Music History about notation and how the notation has evolved.
This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.
Egypt
-Used in Everyday Life |
-Lute |
-Lyre |
-Harp |
Israel
-music is associated with religon |
-Shofar and Ram's Horn |
-Professional muscians were used at services |
Responsorial Music |
Antiphonal Music |
Responsorial Music: the soloist is answered by the choir
Antiphonal Music: Choir is divided in two and they alternate their singing
Rome
-Based on Music of the Greeks |
-Military and Entertainment Purposes |
-made first brass instruments and horns |
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Greece
-Music originates from mousike |
-music is played at festivals, plays, and Olympic games |
-Kithara and the Aulos |
-invented music scales and modes |
-named the pitches of scales |
-Music was monophonic |
Monophonic: one melodic line
China
-Pentatonic Scale |
-plucked, stringed instruments |
-From Zither family |
Pentatonic Scale: 5 Note Scale
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Gregorian Chant
-Many chants were organized in the time of Pope Gregory |
-Called Gregorian Chants or Plainsong |
Notation in the Middle Ages
-monasteries and churches |
-songs were based on the Old testament |
-in Latin, in unison and a cappella |
-followed rhythm of the text |
-smooth and only used a few tones |
-Chants followed the rhythm of the text |
-Later melodies were sometimes melismatic (many notes sung on one syllable of the text) |
-Chants were learned from memory (rote) and not written down |
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Nuemes
-Numes means signs in Greek |
-Horizontal lines were added to give a reference point to the moving melody |
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