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Intro to music
Test 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Hildegard Von Bingen | german, did a lot of activities, including music: gospely, slow, women singing in high voices, chant |
| Chant | taking every syllable and articulating it (not rhythmic) (words)(no patterns) |
| monophonic texture | 1 melody on it's own |
| Drone | anger note, point of reference, low constant tone |
| Quadrivium | arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy of music |
| John Tavener | like hildegard, takes old ideas (chant and drone) makes them modern, wrote a song played at princess dianas funeral |
| Expressionism | uncovering and relaying extreme emotional states through means that obscure or abstract realism |
| Sigmund Freud | created psychology |
| Arnold Shonberg | founder of second viennese school, created atonal music, no center, all over the place |
| symphonic poem | series of emotional states, or story, is depicted in terms of musical ideas rather than the composer implementing any one of the traditional forms to structure and composition |
| Anton Webern | Schonberg's most sever student, non-motivic |
| Alban Berg | most liberal student of Schonberg's, adapted ideas without being strict like Webern |
| amplitude | dynamics, how loud or soft |
| frequency | pitch, high or low |
| MIDI | musical instrument digital interface (using a digital/electronic keyboard to instruct a computer to make particular sounds, or using info to do the same |
| virtual instrument | live instruments that have been recorded one note at a time, manipulated by MIDI |
| multitrack reading | each voice or instrument is recorded with it's own microphone, sometimes at the same time, but then brought together as a whole |
| mixing | multiple track recording, each sound can be brought into a balance that can be manipulated |
| compression | difference between loud and soft is decreased |
| gain | controls the over dynamic of the track |
| cross-fading | seemlessly edit 2 takes of the same track together |
| Galileo and Kepler | scientifically directly affected art at the time |
| Dietrich Buxtenude | used polyphonic texture, wrote fugues, weaved layers of music together |
| polyphonic texture | interweaving of independent melodic strands into a coherent musical fabric |
| Fugue | polyphonic texture that employs imitation (stretto-layer, inversion-flip, and retrograde-backwards) |
| Cantata | short, dramatic, multiple movements, original text |
| oratorio | synonymous to cantata, just longer |
| Harry Partch | born in china, but american composer, lived in a garage, made random instruments |
| microtonal | notes in between the western scale |
| Gesamtkunstwek | total concept of how an idea should be displayed |
| Franz Joseph Haydn | success depended on Esterhazy, who provided everything for him, created sonata form and the symphony |
| Nikolaus Esterhazy | very rich, never wanted to hear something twice |
| Sonata Form | exposition, development, and recapitulation |
| Symphony | built on the idea of instrumental families to make a hierarchical ensemble, strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion/keyboard, goes fast, lyrical, moderate dance, and then very quick |
| Oliver Messiaen |
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