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Messiah, Hallelujah Course |
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- George Frederic Handel - Baroque - Monophony, homophony, and polyphony - Oratorio |
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Sacred or religious music of the Baroque era - basically an opera on a religious subject. No grand stage, performance orientated. |
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Julius Caesar - La Guistizia |
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- George Frederic Handel - Baroque - In Da Capo Form - Opera Aria - Non-imitative Polyphony |
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A set piece for a solo singer that has much more musical elaboration - emotional |
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- Typical of Baroque Opera Aria - A B A |
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Recitatives accompanied by orchestra or one kind or another |
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Technique of declaming words musically in a heightened, theatrical matter. Plot specific. |
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Recitative with continuo accompaniment |
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Serious opera - designed to stir up powerful emotions, plot was usually derived from ancient history. |
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Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D, Air |
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- J.S. Bach - Air - Baroque - Walking Bass - In French Overture style, B is in imitative polyphony |
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The special preparatory number prior to a dance suite. |
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a general term for any substantial piece of music introducing a play, opera or ballet. - In A B A' pattern |
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a a b b typical of Baroqeu Dance Form |
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A genre of dance, it is a collection of miscellaneous dances together |
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Dances meant to be listened to, not danced to. |
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is a polyphonic composition for a fixed number of instrumental lines or voices - usually 3 or 4 - built on a single theme. This theme is called the subject - it appears again and again. - Systemized imitative polyphony |
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The fugue begins with an exposition, in which all the voices present the subject in an orderly, standardized way. |
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After the exposition, the subject enters at intervals, these are called subjct entries. |
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The passages of music separating the later subject entries are called episodes. |
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The Art of the Fugue, Contrapunctus 4 |
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- J.S. Bach - Fugue - Baroque - Imitative Polyphony |
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Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 |
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- J.S. Bach - Congerto Grosso - Ritornellos - Non imitative polyphony - Baroque |
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Entail the successive, uninterrupted repetition of one clearly defined melodic unit, with changes that rouse the listener's interest w/o ever losing touch with the original unit. Systematic. |
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Repeating bass figure in Baroque Variation Form |
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Contrast between an orchestra and a soloist |
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Contrast between an orchestra and a small group of soloists |
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A self contained section of music that is part of a larger work 1st - bright, extroverted 2nd - gentler, slower, more emotion 3rd - fast again, sometimes faster than the first |
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Concerto movements are often in ritornello form, the name of the orchestral music that starts the movement off. Contrast is back to the concerto, and ritornello form focuses on contrast between two musical ideas - one of the orchestra one of the soloist(s). |
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- Vivaldi - Baroque - First movement - faster, extroverted - Concerto - Ritornello |
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- Vivaldi, 2nd movement, slower, more gentle - Baroque - in Ground bass form - Conterto - Baroque Variation Form |
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Improvising melodic extras in the aria |
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Standard texture of Baroque music is? |
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Continuo aka figured bass. |
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The continuo is a bass part that is always linked to a series of chords, usually played by the harpischord or organ, or lute. |
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Feature that hammers the home beat - moves absolutely in even notes, usually 8ths or quarters |
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- Henry Purcell - Opera - Baroque - Chorus is in style typical of the madrigal - homophony and imitative polyphony w/ word painting - Recitative - Aria - built over slow ground bass |
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Drama presented in music, with characters singing instead of speaking- often called the most characteristic art from of hte Baroque period. |
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Composers developed a new way of handling hte chords so that their interrelation was felt to b e more logical, or at least more coherent. Each chord now assumed a special role, or function, in relation to the tonic chord. Purpose + predictable. |
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- Giovanni Gabrieli - Baroque - Motet - Written for the X-Mas season - Polyphonic |
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- Anonymous - Renaissance - in simple dance tune, a a b form - recorder, viol, lute - ornaments are piled on |
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A short composition set to a one-stanze poem - typically a love poem - in imitative polyphony and homomphony |
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As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending |
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- Thomas Weelkes - Renaissance - Madrigal - Full of word painting and declamation |
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a sacred vocal composition. Early motets were based on fragments of gregorian chant. - Homophony and imitative polyphony |
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Typical high renaissance texture? |
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Homophony and imitative polyphony |
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Pope Marcellus Mass, from the Gloria |
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- Palestrina - Renaissance - Mass - Qui Tollis - Manly homophony, some polyphony - 6 person vocals, semichoirs |
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Pange Lingua Mass, from the Gloria |
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- Josquin Desprez - Renaissance - Mostly imitative polyphony, some homophony - used to give sense of communal worship - 4 person vocals, semichiors |
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Matching music to the meaning of the words "high" vs "low" |
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made sure that words were sung to rhythms and melodies that approximated normal speech |
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a brief passage of imitative polyphony covering one short phrase of a compositions verbal text and using a single musical motive. |
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Pange Lingua Mass, from Kyrie |
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- Josquin Desprez - Renaissance - Mass - Non-imitative and imitative polyphony |
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a simply religious song, sang ina few stanzas, used for congregation |
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a simply religious song, sang ina few stanzas, used for congregation |
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- Guillaume Dufay - Renaissance - Harmonized Hymn - Homophony |
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Homophony began in the... |
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- Mauchet - Motet - Middle Ages - Non-imitative poloyphony - Hocket, isorhythmic motet |
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technique of writing successive lengthy passages in identical rhythms but with distinct melodies |
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Motets that employ isorhythm |
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Upper lines are given their own words - a new sort of polyphony expaned from organum |
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Alleluia. Diffusa est Gratia |
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- Perotin - Middle ages - Organum - a section is plainchant therefore monophonic, b section is non imitative polyphony - our first example of polyphony |
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Original plainchant that forms the basis of a new composition |
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Earliest type of polyphony, it is based on cantus firmus, added another melody in counterpoint |
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- Bernart de Ventadorn - Middle ages - Troubador Song - Homophony - singer + accompaniment - strophic form A A A... |
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- Anonymous - Middle ages - Gregorian antiphon - Monophonic |
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a genre of plainchant usually showing a simple melodic style with few melismas |
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the pitch on which the text is sung, it is held except for small variations. In gregorian recitation |
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2 Characteristics of Plainchant |
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1 - all nonmetrical - no clearly established meter, therefore free rhythm 2 - not constured in major/minor system according to medievil modes |
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D-DORIAN E-PHRYGIAN G-MIXOLYDIAN F-LYDIAN |
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the official music of the catholic church in the middle ages. |
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The standard five polyphonic sections of hte renaissance mass |
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Kyria Gloria Credo Sanctus Angus Dei |
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Parts of the catholic mass that use the same text throughout the year |
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Alternation of short melodic phrases or notes |
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Many consecutive notes sung with one syllable/vowel |
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