Music

lyres

Small harp, string instrument

harps

plucked string instruments

genres

types of musical composition

hymns

songs to a god

diatonic

notes within a given scale or key

melody

tune; derived from melos

monophonic

one melody

heterophony

multiple voices elaborating the same melody at the same time

polyphony

Music with two or more melodies blended together.

harmonia

the unifications of parts in an orderly whole

psalms

sacred poems of praise

cantillation

chanting of sacred texts

Proper of the Mass

texts that change with the liturgical year

Ordinary of the Mass

dont change during mass

Introit

sung when priest enters the church

Kyrie

Lord have mercy; after Introit

Gloria/Geater Doxology

formula of praise; after Kyrie

Gradual

Gradus: stairstep

Alleluia

praise god

Tract

florid setting of several verses in the Psalms

sequence

sometimes sung after Allelulia

Offertory

sung during the priest prepares the communion

Sanctus

Holy, Holy, Holy; chorus of praise

Agnus Del

Lamb of God

Communion

choir sings based on the psalm

responsorial

Pertaining to a manner of performing CHANT in which a soloist alternates with a group.

antiphonal

2 groups or halves of the choir alternate

direct

without alteration

syllabic

one note per syllable

neumatic

3-6 notes per syllable

melismas

groups of notes on one syllable

melismatic

chants that are melismas

recitation formulas

simple melodic outlines that can be used with many different texts