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Midterm Vocab and facts
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Meter | recurring pattern of strong and weak beats |
| Syncopation | accents on off-beats |
| tone color | difference in sound for a given pitch |
| overtones | pitches which interact and resonate |
| Lute | giant guitar |
| diatonic scale | western music scale with seven pitches per octave |
| tonic | the home pitch |
| minor scale pattern | whwwhww |
| major to minor | start on the 6th |
| modality | what the base scale is |
| form | order of parts, ie aabb |
| where did gregorian chant come from | plainchant |
| melisma | when one syllable has multiple notes |
| sequence | AA'BB'CC' where soloist first time then choir |
| strophic form | AAA |
| organum | earliest form of polyphony |
| chanson | early secular polyphony |
| significance of Pope Marcellus mass | said to have convinced the pope that polyphonic church music was clear enough to the congregation to still be acceptable |
| madrigal | genre of music form Italy with 4-6 voice parts set to a one-stanza poem, typically a love poem, lots of imitative polyphony and homophony |
| baroque description | extravagance and control |
| basso continuo | combination of bass voice/cello/bassoons ALSO WITH organ/harpsichord/lute |
| ground bass | the part played by the basso continuo |
| functional harmony | each chord has a set function |
| recitative | the speaking park, minimal accompaniment (just continuo) |
| aria | extended solo piece, full orchestra |
| suites | collection of dances all in the same key, with the last typically fast |
| concerto | solo parts + orchestra parts |
| ritornello form | ritornello in tonic key, solo, part of ritornello, solo, part of ritornello, finish off with ritornello |
| cadenza | improvized/solo passage |
| fugue | polyphonic composition for a fixed number of lines based on a principal theme that reappears again and again |
| minuet | simple dance in triple time at moderate tempo |
| gigue | a dance in compound meter (think jig) |
| baroque dance form | binary form |
| binary form | aabb |
| Minuet form | usually Minuet (A) Trio (B) Minuet (A) with A being aabb and trio ccdd |
| modified strophic form | all the same theme, but slight variations ie A' |
| Back to Beethoven big idea | Beethoven fundamentally reshaped the idea of being a composer, composer is God in the hierarchy, now people can look to music for meaning not just religion, introduced the idea of the Canon |
| kunstreligion | where people once looked to religion for meaning, now people turn to art |
| Bildung | personal growth, "becoming" through education -> but not for women |
| Sonata form and gender | 1st theme is masculine theme, 2nd is feminine theme, because in the recap women are captured |
| men vs women | culture vs. nature, becoming vs. being, men are default |
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