music midterm
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| Describe the social structure of the middle ages | show 🗑
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| Why does history record so much sacred music from the middle ages? | show 🗑
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| show | the official music of the Roman Catholic Church-monophonic ABA religious small collection of pitches
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| show | anon: Alleluia Vidimus Stellam, not rythmic, latin, often monophonic-no strong beat, mostly in latin
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| What is an estampie? | show 🗑
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| show | plainchant was more churchy/solumn/slow music-estampie was not.
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| What is organum? | show 🗑
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| Describe the evolution of organum | show 🗑
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| Who are Leonin and Perotin and what significant contribution did they make to musical history? | show 🗑
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| show | "rebirth"-the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century, marking the transition from the medieval to the modern world.
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| show | revival of greek & roman culture. the crusades- Many of the Crusaders passed through the Byzantine empire and came into contact with this Greek and Roman knowledge that had been preserved there.
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| show | Christian society was held to have two aspects, the church and the state. These two aspects of Christian society were sometimes referred to as Christendom.-the church started to have power over the state
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| show | intellectual movement focusing on human life & its accomplishments
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| What is a madrigal? | show 🗑
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| show | renaissance music; musical representation of specific poetic images
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| show | Thomas Weelkes
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| show | Queen Elizabeth in 1601
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| Vesta is also called_____? | show 🗑
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| By what other names is Queen Elizabeth I described in this madrigal? | show 🗑
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| show | predominately polyphonic. vocal music often shifted texture from polyphonic to homophonic as the text demanded
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| show | repeated; unity of mood is conveyed primarily by continuity of rhythm; rhythmic patterns heard @ the beginning of a piece are repeated throughout it providing compelling drive & energy
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| show | this music usually expresses one basic mood: what begins joyful will remain joyful throughout, etc..
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| show | constant volume ;volume tends to stay constant for a stretch of time; when dynamics do shift, the shift is usually sudden, like stepping from one level to another.
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| What is a terraced dynamic? | show 🗑
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| Describe the basso continuo and the figured bass | show 🗑
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| What was the role of the musician in court life? | show 🗑
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| What instrument family do you hear in Brandenburg Concerto #5? | show 🗑
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| What instruments do you hear in instrumental soloists? | show 🗑
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| Has the texture changed in the instrumental soloists? how? | show 🗑
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| show | major
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| How would you describe the tempo of Brandenburg #5? | show 🗑
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| show | duple meter
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| what is the texture of brandenburg #5? | show 🗑
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| Cadenza-purpose? what's wrong with it? | show 🗑
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| show | a polyphonic composition based on one main theme called a subject. throughout a fugue, different melodic lines (or voices) imitate the subject- tonic, dominant, tonic, dominant..cloudy sounding
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| What is a fugal exposition? | show 🗑
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| show | a different melodic idea that accompanies a fugue subject
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| show | the subject is imitated before it is completed; one voice tries to catch the other
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| show | the pitches are presented upside down
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| retrograde | show 🗑
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| show | the pitches are presented upside down & backwards
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| show | Statement of a motive in rhythmic durations that are proportionately doubled or halved.
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| show | a staged play that is sung
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| Recitative | show 🗑
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| Secco recitative,Accompanied recitative | show 🗑
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| show | a song for solo voice and orchestra. used to express emotional state of the characters
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| show | musical form prevalent in the Baroque era. It was sung by a soloist with the accompaniment of instruments, often a small orchestra.
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| Who is Henry Purcell? | show 🗑
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| What is the plot of Dido and Aeneas? | show 🗑
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| What is the ground bass? | show 🗑
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| What is meant by the term “affection” in the Baroque period? | show 🗑
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| What specific “affection” is used in the ground bass of Purcell’s “When I am laid” and what is its meaning? | show 🗑
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| show | reform
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| show | text of opera
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| what is a librettist? | show 🗑
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| What are the characteristics of opera? | show 🗑
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| What are the voice categories of opera? | show 🗑
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| What is an oratorio and how does it differ from opera? | show 🗑
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| show | Messiah "Hallelujah Chorus" -written in English
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| What country did Handel spend most of his life? | show 🗑
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| What was his country of origin? | show 🗑
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| Why was G.F. Handel nicknamed "The Charming Brute"? | show 🗑
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| coloratura soprano | show 🗑
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| show | rather light voice; sings roles calling for grace and charm
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| dramatic soprano | show 🗑
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| lyric tenor | show 🗑
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| show | powerful voice; is capable of heroic expression
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| basso buffo | show 🗑
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| show | very low range; powerful voice; takes on roles calling for great dignity
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| Moteverdi: Orpheo | show 🗑
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