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music exam 2gege
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When was the baroque period? | 1600 - 1750 |
| Age of Kings with absolute rule | Age of Absolutism |
| Known for drama, passion and action | Baroque Art |
| The idea that a piece of music should endorse a single emotion | Doctrine of Affections |
| Music that only uses instruments | Instrumental music |
| Individual sections of music that when put together, comprise an entire piece | Movements |
| A musical structure that establishes a starting point, moves far away from it, then returns home | Tonality |
| The home key | Tonic |
| The far away key | Dominant |
| A way to organize sound that is not related to worlds, and allows composers to create expectation in instrumental music | Musical Form |
| A two section form with repetition, AABB | Binary Dance form |
| Genre that uses Binary Dance form | Dance suite |
| A piece for larger orchestra that contrasts the sound of a small group and large group | Concerto |
| Alternating between large and small groups, the form used in the FIRST movement of a concerto | Concerto Form |
| The music that the entire group plays when the focus is not on these soloist | Ritornello |
| A style of singing with a lot of notes | Coloratura |
| ABA' form where the last section is supposed to be ornamented by the singer through improvisation | Da Capo Aria |
| Genre that uses Da Capo Aria | Baroque Opera |
| A type of polyphonic music with strict limitation | Fugue |
| The melody that is repeated in each voice of a fugue | Subject |
| The beginning of a piece, when the subject appears sequentially in each voice of a fugue | Exposition |
| Imrpovisatory-like music in a fugue | Episodes |
| An instrument genre with four movements, general slow-fast-slow-fast. | Sonata |
| Two different kinds of sonatas | Sonata da Chiesa, Sonata de Camera |
| A single instrument backed up by a keyboard and bass instrument | Solo Sonata |
| Two solos backed by a keyboard and bass instrument | Trio Sonata |
| Pieces that have solo singers, small orchestra, and a choir | Cantata |
| How many cantatas did Bach write? | 300 |
| Some kind of grand orchestral section | The beginning of a cantata |
| Alternation between recitative and aria | The middle of a cantata |
| A chorale | The end of a cantata |
| Very basic choral piece tied to the Lutheran religion | Chorale |
| A big cantata, tells a story, most likely biblical | Oratorio |
| German musician who wrote italian music in England | Handel |
| Classical Period | 1750-1830 |
| There are abstract ideas that the world creates approximations of | Platonic ideas |
| Musicians are interested in form and organization, balance, symmetry | Result of the platonic ideas of Classical period |
| The rise of rational thought in Western culture | Enlightenment |
| The idea that enlightenment philosophy can make monarchies better for everyone | Enlightened Absolutism |
| Created a new revenue source for musicians in the area of selling music to amateur musicians | Rise of Middle class |
| New Genres created in the Classical period | Symphony, sonata, string quartet |
| Orchestral piece with 4 movements and follows fast-slow-dance-fast order | Symphony |
| Chamber music played by 2 violins, one viola, one cello, that follows fast-slow-dance-fast order | String Quartet |
| Became more defined than in baroque period, with the number of movements changed, basso continuo group goes away | Sonata |
| Fast-slow-fast | Order of Sonata |
| Exposision, development, recapitulation | Sonata form |
| Introduction of two themes in sonata form | Exposition |
| An improvisatory section in which the composer chops up the material in the exposition and creates new music by mixing them in a variety of keys | Development |
| Both themes return but this time they're both in the same key (tonic) | Recapitulation |
| It's used in the Sonata genre, symphony and string quartet, and almost always the first movement | Sonata form |
| A B A C A D A, more catchy than sonatas | Rondo form |
| Becomes one of the artistic capitols of Europe in the classical period | Vienna, Austria |
| One of the primary goals of music in the classical period | Entertainment |
| Becomes more important in classical period | Folk music |
| Created by someone who studies the technique of art | High art |
| Made by folk artists, who don't have formal training | Low art |
| Classical period is considered (this) while baroque is more complex | Simplistic |
| Why have differences in conceptions of complexity? | If you want the common listener to listen, you make it understandable |
| The father of the symphony | Haydn |
| An adjective that describes a person with natural genius | Mozartian |
| A secret piece of the Vatican, no written copy of the music existed outside the church | Miserere |
| Musics that existed between the baroque and classical periods | Transitional Music |
| Dark emotional music known for a lack of structure | Sturm und Drang |
| Easy listening music | Gallant |
| The style of music is almost always directly dependent on... | Technology of instruments |
| repetition that makes your music memorable | Formulas |
| Most common instrument that sonatas were written for | piano |
| flashy pieces meant to show off technique of the player | Concertos |
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