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Exam 1
Elements, Renaissance, and Baroque
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Music
Undergraduate 3
03/02/2011

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music in the Middle Ages
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church was center of musical life; woman not allowed; no instruments; Gregorian Chant
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Gregorian Chant
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official music of the Roman Catholic Church; monophonic, set to Latin; flexible rhythm
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secular music in the Middle Ages
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Troubadors/ Trouveres; performed by jonglers; instrumental dances; about love and crusades
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Polyphony Organum
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2+ melodies playing together; initially parallel to chant, then developed its own melodic curve
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Madrigal
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word painting & unusual harmonies; several solo voices set to a short love poem; combined homo & polyphonic
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Lute Song
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song for solo voice and lute; popular instrument in the Renaissance home; homophonic
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Baroque
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1600-1750; flamboyant; visual arts; fills the space
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Early Baroque
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1600-1640; homophonic
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Middle Baroque
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1640-1680; Major & Minor
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Late Baroque
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1680-1750; dominant chord to the tonic
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Baroque characteristics
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one mood; repeated rhythms; constant volumes with abrupt changes; mostly polyphonic; bass; extended words
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Trill
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note above, long
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Mordent
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mini trill
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Turns
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sideways 'S', turn back on the note and go to the next one
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Grace Note
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superscripted note, go to the note above and back; can com in 2s or 3s
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The Fugue
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cornerstones of Baroque music; polyphonic composition based on one theme; sang in a round
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Diffinution
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faster
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Augmentation
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longer
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Inversion
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opposite tones
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Retrograde
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opposite direction
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Antonio Vivaldi
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Late Baroque; sacred and secular vocal and instrumentational music; Il Prete Rosso; La Primavera
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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late Baroque; organist & violinist; wrote everything but opera
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Baroque Suite
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instrumental, multi-movement work; written for listening, based on dance; binary; often began w/ French overture
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The Oratorio
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like opera- large scale work with scales and ensembles; unlike opera- based on Bible w/o acting, scenery, or costumes
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George Frederic Handel
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England's most important composer; had own opera company; buried at Westminster Abbey
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