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Exam 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Soprano | |
| Alto | |
| Bass | |
| Tenor | |
| Monophony | |
| Polypony | |
| Homophony | |
| Gregorian chant | 3,000 anonymous chant melodies |
| Charlemagne | helped standardize aspects of workshop - including chants |
| Monasteries | |
| Neumes | used as a memory device |
| The mass | weekly liturgy ( for everyone) |
| Kyrie | a chant used at the mass |
| Gloria | a chant used at the mass |
| Chanted morality play | music composed by Hildegard used at Hildegard's Ordo Virtutum |
| Cantillation | Judaism - specially trained cantors learn _____ for pslasm and other prayers |
| Maqam | Islam - the Adhan is called five times per day by a muezzin who uses a "scale" called a maqam |
| Organum | adding an extra voice above or below the main chant |
| Simple organum | accompanied by a 2nd voice |
| organum duplum | Leonin's ______ pieces ( a high soloist sings along melismas over the chant which is sung very slowly ) |
| quadruple | Perotin's 4 part piece ( three upper parts against the slow tenor chant) |
| Notre Dame school | organum flourished here( leonin attended) |
| Leonin, Perotin | Lenin's successor at Notre dame was _____ |
| tenor ( in organum) | slow lower part |
| Ars nova | Guillaume de Machaut - composer |
| Humanism | human issues and the individual person |
| Polyphonic Mass | Guillaume de Machaut's La messe de Nostre was perhaps the earliest _____ setting of the ___ ordinary |
| Cantus firmus | a borrowed melody ( Du Fay used a ___ _____ from a secular ( non religious ) melody) |
| Franco - Flemis | Josquin des Prez was a ___ ____ composer |
| Imitation | imitate the music of previous entrances (Josquin des Prez) |
| Counter - reformation | The Roman Catholic Church responding to the reformation by holding a church - wide meeting led to church reforms |
| Council of Trent | concerns about church music ( embellishment of chant, secular music influence , polyphony) |
| Motet | polyphonic sacred music that is NOT one of the mass ordinary texts |
| English sound | The difference was because they used 3rd intervals to make a "sweeter" sound. |
| Reformation | rethinking old ideas ( martin Luther and John Calvin) |
| Martin Luther | a catholic priest who believe that the Bible, not Catholic Church leaders, was the ultimate religious authority (wanted greater participation) |
| John Calvin | thought anything decorative might distract Christians from focusing on prayer ( no stained glass, no colorful robes, no instruments, and NO POLYPHONIC SINGING) |
| Chorale | rhymed religious poetry |
| Metrical Psalm | translated into vernacular languages in a poetic styles (bourgeois) |
| Madrigal | a cappella music that used word painting |
| Word Painting ( text- painting | used text/ word painting to express the words ( lyrics) in the music itself |
| English Madrigal school | Thomas Weelkes uses ___ _____ with obvious word painting madrigals by English composers |
| Opera | ( play) that is sung throughout |
| Aria | emotional, tuneful songs |
| Recitative | speech- like singing |
| The Camerata | created the first operas |
| Jacopo Peri | created a voice- plus - accompaniment texture |
| St. Mark's Basilica ( Venice) | Giovanni Gabrieli worked here and Heinrich Schutz studied with Gabrieli |
| Polychoral | Giovanni Gabrieli wrote ___ music |
| Sacred concerto | Neinrich Schutz used a ____ on "Saul, was verfolgst du mich" |
| Lutheran cantata | a musical sermon |
| Lubeck | Dieterirch Buxtehude had a position in ? |
| Dresden | Jan Dismas Zelenka was employed at? |
| St. Thomas church ( Leipzig) | Johann Sebastian Bach had a big job at? |
| Fortspinnung | repeats basic musical ideas with different harmonies |
| Erdmann Neumeister | came up with the idea to use arias and recits |
| Passion | combines choral numbers with arias and recitatives for solo singers |
| Picador | Bach wrote St. Matthew Passion in 1727. who wrote the libretto? |
| Ospedale orphanage ( Venice) | Antonio Vivaldi was the music master at |
| Standalone Gloria | the 12 sections would have been two long to be used for an actual mass; so this is a |
| English Oratorio | opera- style music with religious content ( Handel made this exist in England) |
| Charles Jennens | wrote the libretto for Handel's Messiah or Hallelujah |
| Gottfried van Swieten | |
| Orchestral depiction | |
| Storm and Stress | From Haydn's "Ach, das Ungewitter naht!" uses musical style created by Haydn ( storm and stress) |
| Requiem Mass | a mass for the dead; the opening words of the Introit prayer |
| Dies Irae | a sequence from the mass ( funeral) |
| Tuba Miriam | a sequence from the mass ( funeral) |
| Franz Xavier Sussmayr | Mozart's student; he completed his unfinished requiem |
| Louis XVI | was executed in the Revolution in 1793 with his wife Marie Antoinette. Later Cherubini wrote a requiem mass for their memorial service ( this is one of Cheribuni's two requiem masses) |
| Marie Antoinette | was executed the Revolution in 1793 with her husband King Louis XVI. Later Cherubini wrote a requiem mass for their memorial service ( this is one of Cherubini's two requiem masses) |
| tam tam | a gong the is used in the opening of Cherubini's Dies Irae |
| Joseph Haydn | traveled to England twice and worked for the wealthy Esterhazy family |
Created by:
addyrussell