In a 1551 debate, Vicente Lusitano defended the primacy of the “diatonic” one of these constructs against the more radical Nicola Vicentino. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give the collective term for these three classes of Ancient Greek tetrachords that differ in the placement of interior tones between hypate (“HIH-pah-tee”) and mese (“MEE-see”), which were separated by a perfect fourth.
ANSWER: genera [or genuses]
[10e] Vicentino advocated for the use of the “chromatic” genus as well as a microtonal genus described by this word, which he built into his archicembalo keyboard. F-sharp and G-flat have this sort of “equivalence.”
ANSWER: enharmonic [accept enharmonic equivalence]
[10m] Emilio de’ Cavalieri included striking microtonal cadences marked henarmonico in his setting of this book of the Bible. Thomas Tallis set this book twice for ATTBB choir in the first section of his Tenebrae service.
ANSWER: Lamentations [or Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet; or Lamentatione jeremiae prophetae; or Eikah]
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