IAH exam 1
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- kyrie eleison composer
- annonymous
- kyrie time period
- medieval, 500-600 AD
- what was kyrie used for
- a chant for mass, or a public service
- what style is kyrie
- ordinary, meaning the same words are used with different melodies, no matter who the composer
- what is the pattern of kyrie
-
aaa, bbb, ccc
kyrie eleison, christie eleison, kyrie eleison - what is the form of kyrie
- 3 part from- formal procedure
- kyrie- what does mellismatic mean
- 4 or more notes per syllable
- what is unique about the language in kyrie?
- most masses are in latin, although kyrie is in greek
- who was the composer of pange lingua
- st thomas aquinas
- when was pange lingua written?
- 13th century medieval
- what is pange lingua used for?
- hymn- proper, specific to a certain day in the church
- what is the style of pange lingua?
- it is responsorial- one person sings a phrase and others join in a phrase
- what is the form of pange lingua?
- strophe- or verse, there are 4 verses or stanzas. each stanza has 6 lines and are formed in pairs
- what is different about the notes from kyrie and pange lingua?
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pangua is syllabic- one note per syllable
kyrie is mellesmatic- 4 or more notes per syllable - what does the text of pange lingua mean?
- praising the miracle of christs birth and death
- who composed quan vei la laustza?
- bernart de ventadorn
- what is sound
- vibration through air we can hear
- what is frequency
- the time it takes to trave;
- pitch
- the way we percieve frequency determined by frequency
- info about polenesian music
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vocal chant
2-3 pitches
1 melodic line - info about african
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rhythm imp
call response singing- gospel or soul - 4 catagories of primitive music
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membrophones-drums with skin heads
ideophones- solid
aerophones- air column
chordophones-strings - info about n american indian
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sand painting- cures
music and dance for good harvest, harmony, etc
vocal- repeated melody - where is mesopotamia and the 5 eras
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modern iraq
sumerian
babylonian
assyrians
babylonian
persians - meso pyrimid to worship patron god- a giant alter
- ziggurat
- what is a stele
- stone announcement
- how did they write?
- cuneiform- pictoral, symbols and sounds
- what was meso music used for
- religion, glorify state, entertainment
- what do egyptians believe about death
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life continues after death, you need your body and things
many obstacles after death - whats important to the ceremonies in egyptian and meso tombs
- harp (originally a shooting bow
- whats the important instrument to the greeks
- lyre, (kithara is the larger version
- in what year were the greeks completely conquered and reconstructed
- 1200 BC; 800 BC
- what is the heroic age
- tales of homer passed through telling stories
- what was the art like in the archeaic era of greek?
- are was more realistic, but not realistic enough to emphasize details
- art in the classic era of greek
- perfect art, they looked somewhat realistic, but all the same and "perfect"
- the mesos and the egyptians worshiped ____ gods
- animal or animal/humans
- the greeks worshipped ____ gods
- powerful but with human like qualities
- at he end of the archaeic era, ____ doubted the gods
- philosophers
-
rational-
irrational- -
predictable events
unpredictable events - egyptian art is ____
- stylized
- the beauty of form was in the ___ era of greece
- classic
- more emotional and romantic art was in the ____ era of greece
- hellenistic
- in greece, the temples were __
- elevated above the city
- the high places in greece
- acropolis
- the standard temple of greece
- parthenon
- who was allowed in the parthenon
- everyone. all free members of society
- whats important about the cella in the parthenon of greece
- anyone can enter, this is where wealth was stored
- describe greek music
- rational, order, harmony,
- what instruments were important in greek music
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lyre- noble (apollo)
kithera (apollo)
aulos (reed) exciting, disturbing- aronysus - whats dionysus
- greek theater and plays
- whats unique about greek plays
- actors always sang, all have a chorus, chorus monophonic to represent community, all in unity to explain
- monophonic
- one note at a time, one melody
- drone
- sustained pitch
- lyric poetry
- greek- accompanied by a lyre,kithera, or guitar
- what was plato concerned about in greek music
- that its affecting the city, it affects character
- the early greeks wrote in... (dev of music)
- ethos or modes
- middle ages wrote in...(dev of music)
- chant, 8 modes, byzantine
- 1600 (dev of music)
- tonality, sense of key, major ,minor, modes
- melody
- a sense of noted arranged in succession in a rhythmic pattern
- rhythmn
- a regular pulse or beat within a music
- harmony
- a combination of notes producing chords within a piece of music
- consonants
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1/8, 1/4, 1/5 - perfect
1/3, 1/6- not perfect - dissonant
- 1/2 1/7
- 4 types of modes (old greek)
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porian
phrygian
lydian
mixoiydian - polyphony
- 2 or more independant monophony lines sung at a same time
- mode
- different from the order of whole and half steps
- texture
- the way different music combinations are combined
- who is paracles
- the king of athens
- parthenon
- high above athens, optical illusion
- athena statue in athens parthenon
- gold and ivory, 40 ft tall, burned because too expensive, thedeus exiled for life
- when was athens most powerful
- 400s
- interior to egyptian temples
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mutlple layers,
walled
only priests allowed in - interior to greek temples
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exterior columns
houselike structure
all people allowed in - parthenon- triangle at top
- statues and symbols of athena and battle
- parthenon- below triangle
- relief sculpture, some only from front and sides
- parthenon- frize
- sculpture area- scenes of athena and battle
- capitol
- top pf column
- doric order
- simple, geometric shape
- ionic order
- curving, flowing
- parthenon- steps
- all around, represent accessability to the world
- parthenon- columns
- shaped like human body
- greek philosophy
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athens was the rise
balance between religion and reason - sacretes
- asked around about truth and "why", was tried for impiety
- greek music in athens
- was an emphasis on harmony and proportions
- who conquered the persians
- alexander
- what are the 3 areas of the greek empire
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egypt
iraq
greece - hellenistic world
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-greek dominant lang
-people werent citizens of city, but of empire
- fight for the state
-monarchy
-people not allowed to participate in public affairs - hellenistic art
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romantic
entertainment- exciting and emotional
large theaters with music - how did the roman king leave
- replaced by republic in 500 BC
- who first attacked the romans
- barbarians (gauls) and took everything
- how did the romans chang eafter being first attacked
-
decided to attack people first
adopted latin and roman culture - 30 BC rome
- rise of the roman empire
- whta did the romans adopt of the greeks
- art, archetecture, religion
- what was roman religiona
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worshipped many gods
emperor was a god - when was roman pantheon built
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50-100 AD
-represents unity or romans and proportion - ampitheater
- romans plays and fights (gladiators)
- what was unique about the roman world
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baths,
sewers and water supply
the arch
the vault - what did the romans use to build their temples
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concrete
volcanic ash- light, strong, durable - when did rome become a republic
- 500 BC
- roman expansion
-
ruler of western empire
stopped losing too many battles, began taxing for the money loss - roman empire
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adopted latin and roman
rich and poor desparity
destruction of jewish state - pax romana
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greatest flourishing of empire
"roman peace" - paternalistic
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roman- ran by husband
- if he is unpleased, wife is out - roman slavery
- by being captured in warfare
- roman art
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much hellensitic greek art,
to glorify state, emperor, militaty conquest - portraiture
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nobles, generals, emperors,
very realistic
serious, demanding, not self indulgent, serve , sacrifice - roman temples
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many rectangular temples
many gods
similar to greek - roman jews
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isolated themselves in palistine
fought romans in jeruselum
the became the early christian church
confronted romans - fire in rome
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blamed in christians
put them in colleseum to die - constantine
- saw a sign that told him to fight and he won
- christian emporers
- christianity became state religion- all others went to jail
- christian- collesiun
- banned for killing
- christianity- drinking
- society became sober
- christianity- considered sins
- anything fun or exciting
- roman music before christianity
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music and poetry in homes
-music in drama
-music in arena - roman music after christianity
- shouldnt be pleasureable, only songs for God
- st augustine
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rome- if careful music is ok
- nothing exciting or secular
-no instruments - chant 600s
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gregory (middle ages)
text on one pitch- psalms, readings, no meter - roman mass
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celebration of the lords supper
public
teaching - roman office
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diff times of the day, hours
psalms and hymns - early christian basilica
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like in a ship
dome on end
rectangle
adopted from pagan gods
also a meeting place for government - art in chistian age
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mosaic
little bits of colored stone - secular music
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handed down by oral tradition
troubador - troubador song
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courtly love song
noble woman, common man
monophonic
originated in southern france - romanesque basilica
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shape of a cross
100 AD, service to saints
pilgrammage
3 doors- represnts trinity and perfection - 400-500 AD
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people became depressed
barbarians invade - goths
- invadors of italy and spain
- vandals
- invadors of n africa
- huns
- invaded everyone
- after roman was invaded in500s
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people lived in country
didnt move
spoke latin
church people were safer - gallian chant
- france- oral
- roman chant
- rome- orally
- 400-800 AD
- dark ages
- empire of charlemange
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chants from rome had to be translated
promoted writing and wrote chants
copy books, build chapels - romanesque era
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orally transmitted info became written
things became more positive again