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Music Exam #2
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Undergraduate 1
02/19/2013

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When was the Medieval ages?
Definition
476-1450; almost 1,000 years
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When was the Renaissance Ages?
Definition
1450-1600
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What is Liturgy?
Definition
set order of services, structure of each service in the church.
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What is Syllabic?
Definition
One note per syllable
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What is Neumatic?
Definition
2 or 3 notes per syllable
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What is Melismatic?
Definition
many notes per syllable
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What is a plainchant or Gregorian Chant?
Definition
  • monophonic - one syllable per note.
  • nonmetric - beat irregular or not easy to find.
  • Latin text.
  • Pope Gregory organized music.
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What was the Church language?
Definition
Latin
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Chant consisted of what?
Definition
  • Oral transmission.
  • neumes - early notation
  • modes - scale patterns 
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What are the two types of music in the daily Mass?
Definition
  • proper - changed with the season by the calender.
  • ordinary - stayed the same all year round.
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What is polyphonic?
Definition
two or more voices combined into music.
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What is the earliest form of polyphonic?
Definition
organum
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Where was the first organum performed?
Definition
in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris
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Where was secular music performed?
Definition
in courts for the King and Queen
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What is troubadours?
Definition
France south
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What is trouveres?
Definition
France north
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What is Minnesingers?
Definition
Germany music
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What is chivalry?
Definition
idealized love songs
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Secular songs were sung what?
Definition
monophonically, with improvised accompaniment.
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What is a patron?
Definition
sponsorship to play music. Most came from the church.
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What is morality play?
Definition
a drama meant to teach "good values"
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What is a cantus firmus?
Definition
a fixed melody.
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What is chansons?
Definition
French music
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What is motet?
Definition
French music, the most important form of early polyphonic music.
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Who was Hildegard von Bingen?
Definition
A German woman composer who composed religious poetry with music and came up with morality play.
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Who was Leonin?
Definition
was the first person who used polyphonic and the earliest composer of organum.
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Who was Perotin?
Definition
followed Leonin, but added 3-4 vioces to organum.
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Who was Gaullaume de Machaut?
Definition
  • French composer
  • a cleric and courtier (who works for the church and the court).
  • He wrote motets, chansons, and wrote the first polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary
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What is the difference between Medieval and Renaissance motets?
Definition
  • Medieval Motet = mostly secular.
  • Renaissance Motet = mostly sacred.  
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What is a cappella mean?
Definition
singing with no instruments
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What is word painting?
Definition
notes and rhythm matched to words of a song.
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What is cantus firmus?
Definition
fixed melody, used as the basis for a new composition.
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What does vernacular mean?
Definition
language of a country
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Early Masses were based on what type of music?
Definition
Gregorian chant and cantus firmus
Term
What is a requiem?
Definition
Mass for the dead
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What consisted of the Renaissance Motet?
Definition
  • Single Latin text
  • Marian motets (Virgin Mary)
  • Written for 3, 4, or more voices.  
Term
What is the Protestant Reformation?
Definition
an up-rise against the church
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What was the counter reformation?
Definition
the reaction of the church to the protestant reformation.
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What consisted of the Council of Trent?
Definition
  • Corruption of chant by embellishment.
  • Use of certain instruments in religious services.
  • Incorporation of popular music in Masses.
  • Secularism of music.
  • Irreverent attitude of church musicians.  
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What is madrigal?
Definition
Italian music
Term
What made up professional musicians?
Definition
courts and civic functions (people who had money).
Term
Where did merchant-class amateurs play music?
Definition
They played and sang at home.
Term
Women studied music as part of their being what?
Definition
well educated and higher class
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Chanson were what type of French song?
Definition
love
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What was the chief form of Renaissance?
Definition
Italian madrigal
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Italian madrigals where what?
Definition
short poem of lyric or reflective nature.
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Englans adopted what type of music?
Definition
  • the Italian madrigal.
  • England lightened and shortened it in style.
  •  Section included syllables fa-la-la
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Who was Josquin?
Definition

Patrons

  • Milan, Cardinal Ascanio Sforza
  • Ferrara, Ercole d' Este
  • Rome, papal choir

Made sacred and secular music.

 
 
 
 
Term
Who was Martin Luther?
Definition
Was the Protestant Reformation leader.
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Who was Palestrina?
Definition
  • known for Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina and Pope Marcellus.
  • Italian composer, organist, and choirmaster.
  • Sistine Chapel Choir to Pope Julius III
  • Wrote mostly sacred music.  
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Who was John Farmer?
Definition
  • Active in 1590s in Dublin, Ireland.
  • Organists and master of Choirboys at Christ Church.
  • Later moved to England. 
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What was Hildegard known for?
Definition
Alleluia, O virga mediatrix
Term
What was Machaut known for?
Definition
Puis qu'en oubli
Term
What was Josquin known for?
Definition
Ave Maria
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What was Palestrina known for?
Definition
Pope Marcellus Mass, "Gloria"
Term
What was Farmer known for?
Definition
Fair Phyllis
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