9 mapeh (music) 1st grading

was the official music of the Roman Catholic Church. It is also named as plainsong or plainchant.

• melodic pattern
• gregorian chant

means “fixed song”. It is a pre-existing melodic line

• psalmodic
• cantus firmus

There is one assigned note for each syllable of text

• neume
• syllabic

There are many notes assigned to one syllable of text, usually combining several groups of neumes

• church mode
• melismatic

notes sung on a single syllable

• cantus firmus
• neume

There are many syllables assigned to one note of text

• psalmodic
• hypodorian

a repeated rhythmic pattern throughout one or more voices

• ars nova
• hypomixolydian

was a French poet and composer

• Leonin
• Guillame de Machaut

a development introduced by Perotin and Leonin. An early church polyphony

• organum
• ars nova

The sections of the mass that are sung to texts that vary with each feast day

• Proper of the Mass
• Ordinary of the Mass