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Music151 Quiz #1
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Undergraduate 1
09/26/2012

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Pythagoras
Definition
Recognized that music had relation to math. Ratio in the length of hammer is related to the sound.
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Plato
Definition
Thought music had a powerful effect on the psyche. hought music was very serious and should be cautioned.
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Aristotle
Definition
Thought music was for enjoyment and entroduced idea of music education.
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Boethius
Definition

Three tyoes of music:

1. Musica Mundana (of the universe)

2. Musica Humana (of body)

3. Musica Instrumentalis (of voice or musical instruments)

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Constantine
Definition

-Edict of Milan: Chants recite passages on a tone.

-Legalized Christianity.

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Early chant types:
Definition

-Lectic

-Gallic

-Old Roman

-Mozarabic

-Beneventian

-Ambrosian

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Gragorian Chant
Definition

-established by Pope Gregory I

-Created consistency of servoces

 

Characteristics:

-Monophonic

-Free rhythm

Medieval Modes used

-Genres: Recitation, Antiphonal

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Charlemagne
Definition
Encouraged the written documentation of music
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Goliards
Definition

-Students of monastaries

-Had patrons

-Varied subject matter(nobles vs. commoners)

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Troubadours
Definition

-From the South of France
-Nobility

-Played the lute

-Used Joglar (Chansons de gest)

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Amour Fin
Definition

-Courtly Love

-the idea of hopeless love

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Trobar Clos
Definition

Troubadour poetry

serious, sad, hopeless love

 

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Trobar Leu
Definition

Troubadour poetry

more playful

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Senhal
Definition

Troubadour poetry

used secret code (women = flower, husband = jealous one)

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Chansonneres
Definition

-Canso (trobar clos)

-Alba(Dawn song)(Trobar Leu)

-Plahn (lament)(Trobar clos)

-Tenso(Contest/Dialogue) (Trobar Leu)

-Sirventes (Servant song) (Praised greatness of master)

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Bernhart de Ventadorn
Definition

Wrote stophic songs

 

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Recitative
Definition
 is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech
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monody

Definition

imitating speech was the most important thing

not too mant ornaments because it could be distracting

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Florentine Camerata
Definition

-a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence who gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de' Bardi to discuss and guide trends in the arts, especially music and drama

-Thought having a soloist and basso continuo was more relaisic

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basso conitnuo
Definition

-there's a bass line

-harpsichord or organ on chords

-clarifies harmony

-simple accompaniment

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Pietro Bernbo
Definition
Stresed importance of using the vernacular language(Italian)
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Madrigal
Definition

-word paintings

-expressed the text and phrases

-through composed

-secular

-4-8 voices

-high quality poetry

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Carlo Gesuldo
Definition

-"Io Parto"

-prince under house arrest

-expressionist

chromaticism and dissonace

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Claudio Moneverdi

 

Definition

-"Cruda Amarilli"

-LAST GREAT MADRIGAL WRITTER, FIRST GREAT OPERA WRITER

-Got into a fight with Giovanni Artusi over breaking contrapuntal rules

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cori spezatti
Definition

-"split choir"

-St. Mark's Basillica

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isorhythmic motet
Definition

-performed in court

-repeating pitch and rhythm patter, voices interrupt each other

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organum
Definition

-singing two different lines of music

-Vox Principalis(tenor) and Vox Organalis

-Only sung by soloists and for special church occasions

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florid organum
Definition
bass note held out note
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discant organum
Definition
both lines move independant of each other
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Leonin
Definition

-Magnus Liber Organi=four voices

-switch from floid organum to discant organum

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Perotin
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-Leonin's student

-3 and 4 part organum

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Motet
Definition

-two different music lines, texts, languages, themes

-confusing at times

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Counterpoint
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counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony), but independent in rhythm and contour.
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