Music 150
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- Middle ages refers to what period of time in European history?
- 450-1450
- In the Middle Ages the most important musicians were who?
- Priests
- In the middle ages the organ was a prominent _______ instrument.
- Church
- The foremost composer of the 14th Century France was who?
- Guillame de Machut
- Guillame de Machut was _____, ______, _______ as well as a musician.
- Court official, poet, priest
- What are the parts of the ordinary of the Mass?
- Gloria, Kyrie, Credo
- During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to do what 3 things?
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1. Read Musical Notation
2. Be Skilled in Dance
3. Play a Musical Instrument - Who was known for writing string music in the Mid/Ren/Baroque period?
- Correlli
- The compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by what in music?
- Repeated Rhythmic Patterns
- The orchestra evolved during the Baroque period into a performing group based in the instruments of the _________ family.
- String
- The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the what?
- Tutti
- What were the Castrati?
- Male singers castrated before puberty
- Bach chreated masterpieces in all baroque forms except what?
- Opera
- The Text of the opera.
- Libretto
- T/F: Opera started in the Renaissance period?
- False
- ______ Period's name means bizarre and elaborately ornamented.
- Baroque
- In Baroque music, melodies are heard once, or more than once?
- More than once
- _____ consists of one or more log sustained tones accompanying a melody.
- Drone
- Organum is a form of what?
- Homophony
- T/F: Pope Gregory wrote a lot of Gregorian Chant.
- False
- A Medieval dance. One of the earliest forms of instrumental music.
- Estampie
- A compositional procedure used in fugues in which a subject is imitated before it is completed; one voice tries to catch the other.
- Stretto
- Ars Nova
- "New Art"
- Between recitative and Aria
- Arioso
- Polyphonic composition based on one main theme or subject.
- Fugue
- Variation of a fugue subject in which the original time values of the subject are shortened.
- Diminution
- Main Theme
- Subject
- Medieval polyphony that consists of Gregorian Chant and one or more additional melodic lines
- Organum
- Two or more notes to one syllable of text
- Melismatic
- Speech-like melody that is sung by a solo voice accompanied only by a basso continuo
- Secco Recitative
- A short orchestral piece that opens and opera and sets the musical mood.
- Overture
- One who writes the text of an opera.
- Librettist
- Speech-like melody that is sung by a solo voice and accompanied by the orchestra
- Accomanied recitative
- "Orfeo"
- Monteverdi
- "La Primavera"
- Vivaldi
- "Notre Dame Mass"
- Machut
- "Wachet Auf"
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Piece that took 24 days to write
- Messiah
- England's most importaint composer in the Baroque period
- Henry Purcell
- ________ Learning: repetition--one line at a time
- Rote Learning
- Opposite of Melismatic; one note to one syllable of text
- Syllabic
- Polyphonic texture; obscures the original melody; more than one melody at the same time
- Paliphany
- _________ Rhythm: created by Leonin and Perotin; from the school of Notre Dame; definite time values and clearly defined meter
- Measured
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-Wrote "O Successores"
-Ran a convent
-Visionary and a mystic
-One of the only women composers in the Middle Ages - Hildegard Von Bingen
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-Priest/court official
-Wrote the Notre Dame Mass
-Mass ordinary vs. Mass proper - Guillaume de Machaut
- Mass ________: consists of texts that remain the same from day to day throughout most of the church year. Composers wrote for this. Has 5 sung prayers (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Angnus dei)
- Mass Ordinary
- Renaissance means
- Rebirth
- Mass _____: Changes w/ the seasons
- Mass Proper
- 5 sung prayers of the Mass Ordinary:
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1. Kyrie
2. Gloria
3. Credo
4. Sanctus
5. Agnus Dei - Musical center of the Renaissance
- Rome, Italy
- T/F: There was secular music in the Midieval and Renaissance periods.
- True
- The space between 2 bar lines
- Measure
- When a violin player plays more than 1 mote at the same time they are playing what?
- Double stops
- The lowest male voice part is the what?
- Bass
- The lowest female voice part is the what?
- Alto
- Percussion instruments are grouped by ______ and ______ instruments.
- Pitched and Non-pitched
- A broken chord
- Arpegio
- Very slow, broad
- Largo
- Slow
- Adagio
- Rapid repetition of a tone
- Tremolo
- Lively
- Vivace
- Small fluctuations of a pitch
- Vibrato
- Moderately slow, walking pace
- Andante
- Fast
- Allegro
- Moderately fast
- Allegretto
- Very slow, solemn
- Grave
- Extraordinary performing artist
- Mezzo-Sporano??
- Middle male voice part
- Baritone
- Highest male voice part
- Tenor
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These periods are an example of what type of periods?:
1. Classical
2. 20th Century
3. Romantic
4. Midieval
5. Baroque
6. Renaissasnce - Stylistic Periods
- Notes that sound the same but are spelled differently
- Enharmonics
- Principle player
- Concert master
- Emphasized notes
- Accents
- T/F: A round is a type of imitation
- True
- ______ Period starts in 1750
- Classical
- T/F: the piano was not used in the Classical Period
- False
- T/F: Sonata form has 2 diff. parts
- False
- "Show-off" time for a performer
- Cadenza
- Beethoven wrote how many symphonies?
- 9
- Mozart wrote how many symphonies?
- 46
- Haydn wrote how many symphonies?
- Over 104
- What composer was a child prodigy?
- Bethoveen
- A mass for the dead
- Requiem
- The 3 Classical Composers were who?
- Mozart, Bethoveen, Haydn
- Who wrote the 1812 Overature?
- Tchaikovsky
- Musical idea associated w/ a person, object or thought--Wagner
- Leitmotif
- Universal artwork
- Gesamtkunstwerk
- One movement programmatic piece for orchestra
- Tone Poem
- Instrumental music--not designed to tell a story
- Absolute music