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Chant Homework (Due 2/19/16)

Read pages 305 to 307 up to Rhythmic Markings and Expressed notes. Respond the following questions.

1. In chant notation, what are the most basic shapes for individual notes?2. What is meant by the name “neum”?3. What is a clivis? And how do sing it?4. Which note is sung first in a podatus figure?5. What is a voiced consonant?6. How many lines does a chant staff have?7. What is the interval range used within a podatus? (interval name)8. What is a torculus and what is the other in which the notes are sung?9. What note does the Do clef indicates? (Letter name)10. How many pulses do a bistropha and a tritropha get? 11. What note does the Fa clef indicates? (Letter name)12. Do you rearticulate the repeated notes in bistropha and a tristropha?13. What is a liquescent? Draw and example of a liquescent.14. What is a crescendo?15. What is the solfeggio syllable for a lowered leading tone (7th degree scale) in a

major key? 16. What is the pulse value of a liquescent?17. In traditional chant notation, how many pulses does any given note get?

(Excluding the pressus, bistropha and tristropha) 18. The clefs in chant notation are fixed and unmovable, true or false?19. In modern notation, what note value is consider equivalent to the basic pulse

used in chant?20. How do you sing a porrectus?21. How many pulses (beats) does a single rhombus get?22. How many lines does a modern staff have?23. In what order are the notes within a climacus sung?24. What is a diphthong?25. Are the notes within a pressus rearticulated?26. What is the only accidental in chant?27. The liquescent is used in Latin syllables that end in what kind of consonant?28. Draw all the variants for the Do and Fa clefs?29. What is the solfege (solfeggio) for a major scale?30. What is a custos and what is its purpose?