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Music West. Civ.
Section 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| staff | set off five horizontal lines on or between which the notes are placed |
| pitch | the highness or lowness of a tone |
| interval | the distance between two pitches |
| octave | interval between notes of the same name |
| pitch range | difference between highest and lowest pitch that an instrument can produce |
| dynamics | levels of loudness and softness |
| forte | loud |
| piano | soft |
| mezzo | medium |
| timbre | distinctive sound quality of an instrument |
| 3 Musical Elements | Rhythm, Melody, Harmony |
| rhythm | ordered flow of music through time |
| beat | pulse |
| Parts of rhythm | beat, meter, measures, time signature |
| meter | organization of beats into regular groups/ beats per measure |
| measures | units of organized beats |
| downbeat | first beat of each group |
| melody | series of notes that add up tp a recognizable whole |
| harmony | depth - vertical element |
| cadence | punctuation in music that allows the melody and harmony to sound complete |
| musical form | organization of musical ideas in time |
| 4 Parts of Orchestra | Strings, Woodwind, Brass(wind), Percussion |
| 4 Parts of Choir | Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass |
| monophonic | one single melodic line/ one note at a time |
| homophonic | one melodic line w/ chords and harmony |
| polyphony | two or more melodies played at same time |
| syllabic | one syllable for every note |
| melismatic | one syllable of text and a lot of notes |
| Kyrie | only greek text in Roman Catholic liturgy |
| 5 parts of Ordinary section | Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei |
| troubadours | sing love songs |
| strophic form | repeating a formal section of music in a song |
| through composed form | non-repeating of sections in a song |
| 400 to 1350 CE | Middle Ages Period |
| 640 CE | Pope Gregory I began writing music |
| 725 CE | Pope Gregory II continues progression of writing music |
| starts in plainchant and ends in gregorian chant | The Middle ages startes with what type of music and ended with what? |
| neumes | earliest form of written chanting |
| Hildegard of Bingen | early female composer of sacred music/ monophonic and written in unmeasured rhythms |
| Leonin and Perotin | created earliest polyphonic works that had unmeasured rhythm - involved in sacred music |
| organa | two melodies moving at same time with unmeasured rhythm |
| Guillaume de Machaut | wrote one of the earliest polyphonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass |
| Secular music | was non-religious and couuld be written in the vernacular instead of Latin |
| secular music songs by troubadours | their music was strophic in form and monophonic |
| motet | second set of words added to the chant |
| 1351 to 1600 | Renaissance period |
| Josquin des Prez | composed Ave Maria and wrote many sacred motets during renaissance period |
| Giovanni Palestrina | during Renaissance period helped stopped church from abandoning polyphony texture of music |
| Madrigal | principle form of secular music during the Renaissance - a poem set to music - present in Italy and England |
| Chanson | Renaissance period songs in France that were essentially homophonic |
| ayres | lute songs in renaissance |
| Lied | german form of Madrigal |
| Praetorius | german composer of late renaissance who wrote many chorales |
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