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Trope (music)

Troparium (called as such because the tropes of the chant are written down) of St. Michael, who is depicted fighting fantastic birds, 11th century

A trope or tropus may refer to a variety of different concepts in medieval, 20th-, and 21st-century music.

The term trope derives from the Greek τρόπος (tropos), "a turn, a change",[1] related to the root of the verb τρέπειν (trepein), "to turn, to direct, to alter, to change".[2] The Latinised form of the word is tropus.

In music, a trope is adding another section, or trope to a plainchant or section of plainchant, thus making it appropriate to a particular occasion or festival.

  1. ^ Liddell and Scott 1889.
  2. ^ Anon. 2009.

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