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Music 100 Exam 1
Cards for chapters 1-6
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rhythm | the motion of music in time |
| Beat | steady underlying pulse |
| Duple and Triple Meter | two or three beat measures/common time |
| Asymmetrical Meter | other than 2-3 meter, beats are measured from 5-7 beat measures |
| Tempo | Rater of the beat |
| Simple meter | beat is divided evenly in half |
| compound meter | beat is divided into thirds |
| syncopation | -accent that contradicts the meter -rhythmic surprise |
| Polyrhythm | more than 1 rhythm at the same time |
| Melody | consecutive pitches that promote a coherent idea |
| Identify a major scale | C to C scale |
| White keys | A-G keys |
| How many tones in an octave | 12 tones with 7 different letters |
| Half step | smallest type of interval between keys |
| whole step | two half steps |
| intonation | tuning |
| countour | shape of the melodic line |
| disjunct contour | wide intervals with jagged contour or wide range |
| conjunct contour | narrow intervals with smooth contour and narrow range |
| What is a sentence? | complete melody |
| what is a phrase? | sentence divided into sections |
| what is a cadence | a pause in a phrase |
| tonality | momentum toward a final tone or "home" |
| Humanism | center around the human body rather than the divine. |
| Renaissance | rebirth of classical learning. (ancient greek and roman) 1450-1600 |
| Josquin | -sacred and secular music -polyphonic mass -uses imitative polyphony -pange lingua |
| Palestrina | -used in religious activities because emphasized the words -homphonic style -pope marcellus mass |
| Motet | -religious text but not used in religious services -polyphonic style [imitative and hompoh] -no repetition -Ex. Josquin Ave Maria |
| Madrigal | -secular -polyphonic setting -derived from text and no repetition -vernacular languages -subject: love and praising patrons -Ex. Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta Was From Latmos Hill Descending |
| Chanson | -French with courtly love -homophonic setting -repetitions -flexible arrangements with voices and instruments -Ex. Claudin Sermisy: Tand que Vivray |
| 4 categories of Instrumental music | -strings -brass -woodwinds -percussion |
| Consorts | similar instruments set from low to high pitch |
| broken/mixed consorts | different instruments in combinations -emphasizes individual instrumental parts |
| shwams and sackbuts | loud band |
| recorders | soft band |
| lute | popular instrument that can polyphonic pieces |
| instrumental music | used for arranging voices in vocal works |
| Texture | layers of musical activity |
| Monopohonic texture | 1 melody with nothing added to it |
| heterophony | several voices/instruments performing the same melody but with slight variations |
| homphonic texture | one primary melody with support |
| rhythmic unison | supporting parts have same rhythm just different pitches |
| melody and accompaniment | supporting parts with and independent rhythm |
| imitative polyphony | same melody played against itself |
| non-imitative polyphony | different melodies at the same time |
| Call and response | one melody divided between two groups or people |
| Medieval Europe | 450-1450; music central to worship, composers were mainly patrons to the church |
| Medieval European Composers | linked to the church and educated by the church in notation |
| Neumes | notation without lines [memory aides] |
| Single line staff | notation with pitch reference |
| Four line staff | notation with four lines |
| Square notation | notation that is still used today |
| Gregorian Chant | -Plainchant -flexible rhythm -single melodic line -syllabic or melismatic -Ex. Haec Dies |
| syllabic | one note for each syllable |
| melismatic | one syllable held over many notes |
| Hildegard von Bergen | -one of earliest composers -nun,abbess |
| Organum | -vocal polyphony based on plainchant |
| Ars Nova Style | -polyphonic -voices and instruments mixed |
| 4 attributes of sound | pitch, amplitude, timbre, duration |
| dynamics | descriptive terms for volume levels |
| crescendo | gradually louder |
| static | unchanging dynamics |
| terraced | suddenly louder or softer |
| decresdcendo | gradually softer |
| timber | quality of sound that separates each instrument and voice -dependent on overtones -combinations of instruments [nirvana vs nirvana unplugged] |
| harmony | simultaneous pitch with chords in logical sequences |
| form | structure and organization [shape] |
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