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MUSC101 Exam 2
Music Appreciation
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Baroque Era | -means busy -1600-1750 |
| The Baroque Spirits | -turbulent changes in politics, science, arts -Galileo,Newton -American colonies: Jamestown and Plymouth |
| Middle-class Music Making | music making centered in home, church, and universities |
| "New Thing" (Style) | -moved from polyphony to homophony -new style featured solo song with instrumental accompainiment |
| Cantata | -name of genre from the Italian, cantrare- "to sing" -for solo singer(s) and instrumental accompaniment -early secular Italian |
| Rhythm, early: free | -rhythm in the early Baroque -the speech rhythm of monody |
| Rhythm, later: dance-like and vigorous | -rhythm in the late Baroque |
| Ornamentation | subtle dynamics changes done by the performer to enhance the emotion |
| Basso Continuo | -most characteristic of Baroque style -continuously prominent bass layer -hamophony -bass layer presented by two instruments: melody instrument and a chord instrument |
| Major and Minor Modes Dominate | characteristic of the Baroque style |
| Countertenor/Castato | unaltered men to sing alto and soprano |
| Countertenor/Castraoti | altered men to sing alto and soprano |
| Doctrine of Affection (Style) | total relationship of text and music |
| Virtuoso | -associated with high skill and audience a pile -technical improvements in instrument making -composer challenges the performers -Vivaldi - violin virtuoso |
| Women in Baroque Music | -more women were singers and instrumentalists -more often recognized |
| Strozzi | -Italian singer and composer -educated in Venice -excelled in male-dominated fields -prolific composer of madrigals, arias, cantatas, and motets |
| Amor dormiglione | -composer: Strozzi -genre:concert aria -texture: homophony (basso continuo) -rhythmic style is varied -form is tenerany: A-B-A -monody is a style no a texture |
| Baroque Opera | the most important new genre of the Baroque |
| Genre- Opera | large-scale music drama combining... poetry, acting, scenery, costumes, singing, and instrumental music |
| Orfeo | -demigod -played the lyre and sang, very good, to make people fall in love with him -dramatic theme from classical culture -hymn-like and madrigal-like chorus -instrumental dance movements |
| Overture/Sinfora | instrumental movement present before the curton goes up on th dramatic action / small overture |
| Recitative | enhanced recitation, sing songy monidy like movement |
| Aria | -finnish manifestation of the song -exert from an operas |
| Liberetto | little book of just the words of the opera |
| monteverdi | early famous composer of opera: Orfeo, Arianna, Coronation of Poppea -first to put song, monodies, choruses and instruments together |
| Eurydice | person Orfea is to marry |
| Ensamble | a group of musicians |
| Chorus | a group of singers |
| Instrumental | a musical piece without lyrics |
| Vivaldi | -"The Red Priest" -Italian violinist and prolific composer -worked at Conservatorio del' Ospedele ella Pieta |
| Baroque Concerto | -"concerto" from the Latin concertare ("to contend with") -explores relationship between different performing forces |
| Tutti | the full orchestra |
| Primavera, Mvt 1 | -set of four, 3-movment violoin concertos -solo violin and string orchestra -ritornello (a returning passage presented by the full orchestra) |
| Handel | -German born, educated -studied opera in Italy -last, London/the Royal Academy of Music (group of composers) -died an English citizen -composed Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music (inc.,Suite in D Major) |
| Oratorio | -"Opera-like" -performed by chorus, solo voices and orchestra -uses suites and sonatas which are not in an opera |
| Oratorio-Messiah | -Libretto (selected passages from Hebrew and Greek Scriptures) -three segment organization: Part 1 Christmas, Part 2 Easter, Part 3 Redemption through Faith -Hallelujah from Part 2 of Spring |
| "Rejoice Greatly" | -from Messiah, Part 1 -aria -for Soprano -Da Capo (A-B-A') -Word-painting melisma (many tones per syllable) -Ritornelli* |
| Bach, J.S. | -Johann Sebastian -contrapuntalist -organist,composer and educator -career in northern Germany |
| Baroque Orchestra | -strings -woodwind (made of wood) -horn and trumpets "natural" (valveless) -timpani |
| Keyboard Instrumnets | -organ (pipes) -Harpsichord (strings plucked) -Clavichord (strings hit with a hammer) |
| Lutheran Choral | -"Battle hymns of the Reformation" -Martin Luther (came up with Protestantism and said everyone should be able to sing in church) |
| The Late Baroque Contata | -multi-movement genre -Sinfonia(overture) -Recitative -Aria -Chorus |
| Early Cantatas | secular Italian |
| Late Cantatas | -sacred German cantatas -"Chorale" cantatas fro the Lutheran |
| Bach's Cantatas | -typically have five to eight movements -designed to teach church doctrine |
| Ognitation | to double the length of the notes |
| Diminution | to shorten the length of the notes |
| Fugue | -subject (name given to the primary melodic line) -Counter subject (counter melody) -exposition (segment of a piece were the primary materials are present or exposed) -episode ( part of a piece all about modulation, not presentation of a piece) |
| Sonata-Allegro | a form of a movement consisting of three sections, the exposition, development, and recapitulation, often followed by a coda |
| Classical Era | -related to Greek/Roman antiquity -A supreme accomplishment of lasting appeal -Concern for order, objectivity, and proportion |
| Musical Style (classical era) | -frequent use of folk-like elements -sing-able, lyrical melodies ("tunes") -regular meter and "delightful" rhythms -homophonic texture -harmony drivers form |
| -(Wolfgang) Amadeus Mozart | -classical composer...pianist, violinist -Austrian born -Associated always with Vienna - |
| Mozart's music | -Ludwig Kocel ("K" number) -chamber music -piano music -symphonies... -concertos |
| Franz Joseph Haydn | -Austrian composer -choirboy at St.Cathedral in Vienna -ten year 'free-lance" -long time employee of the Esterhasy family -two successful trips to England late in life |
| Classical Concerto | -three movement |
| Classical Symphony | -developed to large extent by Haydn -for the classical Orchestra -special effects early: rocket-a rhythmically, acceding melodic line -four movements |
| Chamber Music | -string quartet |
| Piano Concerto in G Major | -K.453 -written for Barbara von Ployer |
| K.453 Mvt 1 | -form: -exposition(s) -development -recapitulate with cadenza -coda |
| II. Second Mvt | -tempo: slow -Mood: "lyrical" -Harmony -Ternary form |
| String Quartet, Op.76, No.3 | -op.(abbreviation for opus) -composer: Hayden -AKA: "The Emperor Quartet" -tempo: "rather slowly, in a singing style" -form: theme and variation |
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