Palestrina

Missa Aeterna Christi Munera: Kyrie


Questions to answer

PALESTRINA: Missa Aeterna Christi Munera: Kyrie The Score
Listen to this track three times.

1.	For how many voices - or parts - is this Kyrie written?
2.	What word best describes the vocal texture at the beginning?
3.	What is the interval between the first part's and the second part's entry at the very beginning?
4.	What note is missing from the tonic chord in the perfect cadence at 0:36?
5.	What happens to the texture at this cadence point?
6.	The second section (' Christe eleison') begins at 0:38. At what interval from the opening phrase of the Kyrie is this section begun?
7.	The final section ('Kyrie eleison') begins at 1:22. Which part begins this section?
8.	In which musical period would this Kyrie have been written?
9.	Pick three terms from this list which apply to this Kyrie. Polyphonic Monodic Modal Sacred Secular Melismatic