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music test 2
history of music
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Undergraduate 2
10/24/2012

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Pope Gregory
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responsible for inventing the way music is written today
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1st love songs came about in the
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middle ages
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syllabic means
Definition
1 pitch/syllable
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nuematic means
Definition
2-5 pitches/syllable
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mellismatic means
Definition
5+ pitches/syllable
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Hildegard of Bingen
Definition
1st women musician of the Western World
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Guillaume de Machaut
Definition
French
popular, advanced for his time
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John Farmer
Definition
Englishman
known for secular story-telling ballads
Fair Phyllis
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the term Bas means
Definition
soft sounding, indoor music
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the term Haut means
Definition
loud outdoor music
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Baroque
Definition
1600-1750
everything was overdone
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Baroque examples
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Spring from the 4 seasons
Ave Maria
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Baroque composers
Definition
Bach
Vivaldi
Handel
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Bach was known for _______ and was a master of _______ writing
Definition
known for Pipe Organs, master of polyphonic writing
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Bach learned to play on the ____
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clavier (keyboard instrument)
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Bach was _____ and grew up in ____
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german, grew up in poverty
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____ had 20 kids and never traveled outside of his home town
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BACH
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how did Bach die?
Definition
from a boched eye surgery
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BAch's full name
Definition
Johann sebastian Bach
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Bach's most famous piece
Definition
A mighty fortress is our God
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____ was responsible for the method for tuning the piano
Definition
Bach
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_____ was a master organ designer
Definition
Bach
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Bach's religion was ____
Definition
Lutheran, though he wrote for the catholic church
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Vivaldi's nickname
Definition
The Red Preist
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Vivaldi wanted to become a priest so he could
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get an education
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vivaldi was known for writing
Definition
solo pieces for all the primary instruments
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Italian composer who wrote the 4 seasons
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vivaldi
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George Handel was from _____ and was born in the same year as _____
Definition
from Germany, born in same year as Bach
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____ worked for the king of england as a court musician
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Handel
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Handel's famous pieces
Definition
water music
royal fireworks music
"messiah"
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Messia was _____ most famous piece and was written for ____
Definition
Handel's. written for a childrens hospital benefit write before he died
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Oratorio
Definition
preformed by solo voices, chorus, orchestra
no staging or costumes, usually religious
ex: Messiah
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Libretto
Definition
compilation of old & new testament
ex: Messiah
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secco
Definition
"dry" = unaccompanied
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accompagnato
Definition
accompanied by orchestra
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Messiah was written in ____ days
Definition
24
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_____ had visions/dreams about his music
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Handel
Term
long runs of notes in Arias are definitive of _____ music
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Baroque
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examples of Oratorios
Definition
hallelujah chorus
for unto us a child is born
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The classical period
Definition
1750-1825
philosophy was changed
simple, less decorative period
Term
the american and French revolutions were going on during the _____ period
Definition
classical
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____ was called the father of the symphony
Definition
Joseph Haydn
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Joseph Haydn was born a ______ and lived most of his life in ______
Definition
born an Austrian
spent life in London
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Joseph Haydn's family
Definition
had little $
father was a miller
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____ tried out for the vienna boys choir at age __ and made it
Definition
Haydn, age 8
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Haydn taught
Definition
Mozart and Beethoven
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Joseph Haydn's famous pieces:
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Surprise Symphony
Toy Symphony (done with toy instruments)
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Beethoven was born in
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Germany
Term
______'s father was an alcoholic who beat him and forced him to practice piano perfectly
Definition
Beethoven
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______ became totally deaf in his adulthood
Definition
Beethoven
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Symphony
Definition
a piece for an orchestra
4 movements
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Concerto
Definition
piece for a solo instrument with orchestra
3 movements
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Sonata
Definition
piece for solo instrument + piano
4 movements
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3 types of Opera
Definition
opera buffa
opera seria
singspeil
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kershing number
Definition
"K. 191"
way of identifying chronological order of Mozart's pieces
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Don Juan was the _____ and was the inspiration for Mozart's piece _____
Definition
greatest lover who ever lived
inspiration for Mozart's opera: Don Giovanni
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opera is set apart bc it has elements of
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theater
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Requium
Definition
piece written in honor of someone that died
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Mozart wanted
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to be accepted by others, to be loved.
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____ died in his 30s from being overworked, poor, and exhasuted
Definition
Mozart
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____ died while writing a Requium
Definition
Mozart
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