Sacred & Secular

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• Get out a piece of paper
• Write your name on it
• You can use your notes
• Use short answers – one sentence or phrase

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1. What is liturgy?
2. What are the three types of music as
described by Boethius?
3. What are the 5 parts of the Mass Ordinary?
4. What type of ______-phony is chant?
5. Describe a syllabic melody.
6. Who was Hildegard von Bingen?

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7. What is venacular?
8. What is organum?
9. What are the consonant intervals?
10.What is the ‘Devil’ interval?

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 Pop Quiz Answers!
1. The text to the mass assigned based on the time of year and
day.
2. Musica mundana, Musica humana, & Musica instrumantalis
3. Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, & Agnus Dei
4. Monophony
5. One note per syllable.
6. A Medieval period composer & writer. She wrote chant and
invented the morality play.
7. The local language
8. The harmonizing voice to the principal chant
9. Perfect 4ths, 5ths, and 8ths (octaves)
10. The Tritone (dim 5th/aug 4th)

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 “Puer natus est
nobis”
• Gregorian chant
• Language - Latin
• Anonymous
• Before 1200

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 “Puer natus est nobis”
A child is born to us, and a Son is given to us:
Whose government is upon His shoulder:
and His Name shall be called, the Angel of Great Counsel.
Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle:
because He hath done wonderful things.
A child is born to us, and a Son is given to us:
Whose government is upon His shoulder:
and His Name shall be called, the Angel of Great Counsel.
The Lord has made known his salvation;
to all nations he has revealed his justice.
A child is born to us, and a Son is given to us:
Whose government is upon His shoulder:
and His Name shall be called, the Angel of Great Counsel.

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 English polyphony
• “Sumer is icumen in”
(Summer is coming)
• England, 1250.
• A rota (round) for 6 voices
• Middle English text on the joys
of spring/summer
• Latin sacred text added
underneath in red
• 2 voices sing the bass line
(pes) ‘Sing Cuccu’
• 2, 3, or 4 voices sing the main
melody, producing rich
harmony as the voices overlap
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 Sumer is icumen in
Middle English Modern English
Sumer is icumen in, Summer has come in,
Lhude sing cuccu! Loudly sing, Cuckoo!
Groweþ sed and bloweþ med Seed grows and meadow blooms
And springþ þe wde nu, And the wood springs anew,
Sing cuccu! Sing, Cuckoo!
Awe bleteþ after lomb, The ewe bleats after the lamb
Lhouþ after calue cu. The cow lows after the calf.
Bulluc sterteþ, bucke uerteþ, The bullock stirs, the stag farts,
Murie sing cuccu! Merrily sing, Cuckoo!
Cuccu, cuccu, wel singes þu cuccu; Cuckoo, cuckoo, well you sing,
Ne swik þu nauer nu. cuckoo;
Don't you ever stop now,
Refrain:
Sing cuccu nu. Sing cuccu. Sing cuckoo now. Sing, Cuckoo.
Sing cuccu. Sing cuccu nu! Sing Cuckoo. Sing cuckoo now!

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