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Question

Answer some questions about the development of Mozarabic chant, the Christian liturgical music of Iberia before the Muslim conquest. For 10 points each:

[10m] Mozarabic chant likely had somewhere between two and seven of these musical systems. Another group of these systems is divided between authentic and plagal pairs.

ANSWER: modes [or modus; or modi]

[10e] Mozarabic chant was eventually mostly replaced by this main plainchant tradition of the Catholic Church, which has eight modes. It shares its name with the calendar that replaced the Julian calendar.

ANSWER: Gregorian chant

[10h] Much of the surviving evidence of Mozarabic chant is recorded in either ekphonetic notation or this notation system, which does not precisely represent pitch or rhythm.

ANSWER: neume (“n’YOOM”) [or neumes; accept neumatic notation]

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2025 Penn Bowl - BU	11/01/25	Y	4	10.00	75%	0%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - CWRU	11/01/25	Y	3	13.33	100%	0%	33%
2025 Penn Bowl - Mainsite (UPenn)	11/01/25	Y	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%
2025 Penn Bowl - Murray State	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Northwestern	10/25/25	Y	4	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Online	11/08/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - Ottawa	11/01/25	Y	7	14.29	100%	14%	29%
2025 Penn Bowl - Stanford	10/25/25	Y	4	17.50	100%	50%	25%
2025 Penn Bowl - UK	11/01/25	Y	9	12.22	100%	0%	22%
2025 Penn Bowl - UNC	11/01/25	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2025 Penn Bowl - WashU	11/01/25	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%

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Yale	Brandeis	0	0	0	0
MIT A	Harvard	0	10	0	10
RIT	MIT B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Pittsburgh	Michigan A	0	10	10	20
Central Oklahoma	Oklahoma	0	10	0	10
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	0	10
Columbia A	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
JHU B	NYU B	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
Mount Sinai	Maryland C	10	10	10	30
NYU A	JHU A	0	10	0	10
Swarthmore	John Jay	0	10	0	10
rusty shackleford	New Young Whigs of America	0	10	0	10
abg academy	Wake Up Paddington A Washington Mystery	0	10	0	10
UChicago B	Illinois	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	UChicago A	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Purdue A	0	10	0	10
Indiana	UChicago C	0	10	0	10
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Aweille Kevin Fan osti continue comme ça	Carleton A	0	10	0	10
#OpenToBuzz	McGill Fartlets	0	10	0	10
Ottawa 67s	Toronto G	0	10	0	10
Queen's is monitoring the situation	Toronto Murder on the Rider Express	10	10	0	20
Toronto E	Toronto Sunshine Bubbles	0	10	10	20
Waterloo you are crooked	Toronto Operation PBSuccess	0	10	0	10
Stanford A	Berkeley B	0	10	0	10
In Search of Lost Clues	Berkeley A	10	10	10	30
The best time to buzz was twenty clues ago. The second best time to buzz is now	Berkeley C	0	10	0	10
Free Win	Stanford B	10	10	0	20
UNC A	Planck Sinatra	0	10	0	10
VT A	UNC B	0	10	0	10
Wise Duke	VT B	0	10	0	10
Truman State	WashU Bouba	0	10	0	10
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question mark	Bristold	0	10	0	10
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To buzz is to be perceived	Knorr Stock Clue	0	10	10	20
Quiztian Bale in Ratman Begins	Alas poor Warwick, I knew him Edinburgh	0	10	0	10
Hail to the Sheaf	The Bit and the Penndulum	0	10	10	20
Washed Scrubs	Chimp Brisket	0	10	0	10
why is it called a score clue if nobody scores points on it	Of Mice and Penn	0	10	0	10
Guelph perfomative male competition	McGill B	0	10	10	20