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Test 2
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Music
Undergraduate 2
10/09/2007

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The primary texture of renaissance
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polyphony
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The group of humanists who wanted to recreate Greek drama in their own time-

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 the Florentine Camerta

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One of the most influential Composers of all time who spent his life in Germany-

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Bach

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Invented the English oratorio-

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 Handel

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Medieval period dates –

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476- 1450

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Wrote over 500 concertos –

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Vivaldi

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The dates of the Baroque period

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 1600-1750

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Renisan composers favoered 4ths and 5th over
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3rd and 6ths

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Vituoso male singers physically changed to sing at a higher pitch
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Castiri
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Early opera made freq use of those new 2 person accompaniment
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basso continuo 
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Opera began in this period
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Baroque
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The scale patterns used by medieval composures
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modes
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Late mid ages poet-composer known for sacred and secular music
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Machaut
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The most important cultural centers in the Dark Ages
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Monasteries

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The most important service of the roman catholic church-
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Mass
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A new philosophy focused on the importance of man
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humanist

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Seen as the eminent composer of Renaissance Style
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Palestrina 
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A main song of an opera
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Aria
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Renaissance composers wrote music for this part of mass
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ordinary
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Speech like singing where the plot action occurs
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recitative
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Early music notation symbols
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neumes
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The new vocal style of all the rage in the early baroque-
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monody
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A prominent contrapuntal tech- each voice enters in the same manner
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imitation

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Text of the opera is called –

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 libretto

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The philosophy that music should arouse emotions one at a time

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 –the doctrine of affections in the Baroque period

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Baroque composure that finally put England on the map-

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 Henry Purcell

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Martin luther wrote a bunch of these for regular Joes like us to sing-

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chorales
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The sacred genre that’s different from ordinary monotony
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Motet
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Shifting an entire melody to a different melody –

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Transposition
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The basic division of the Western musical pitch palette, based on the perception of frequencies with a ratio of 1:2 –

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octaves
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Martin Luther started this movement in the Renaissance –

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Reformation
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Early Italian Baroque composure whose operas helped shaped the genre, he could prima prattica with the best of them-

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Monteverdi
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Smallest interval in Western music-

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Halfstep
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A form based on opposing forces, either solo or grosso-

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concerto
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Bach wrote over 300 sacred versions of these for the Lutheran worship-

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Cantatas

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She was a nun to the nth degree she wrote chant, advised kings, -

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Bingen
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The use of this harmonic system became established practice during the Baroque period –

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– major/minor tonality system

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A strict polyphonic form that includes a subject, countersubject and episodes-

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 fugue

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– organum

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Early polyphony is called this –

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The tonality of a piece is described as this the same as the scale on which it is based-

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Key

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This symbol indicates to raise the pitch a half-step –

Definition

– sharp

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Pope Gregory put his name on this monophonic music, but today that would be copyright infrigment
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Gregorian Chant

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Early Renisance composure who was one of the first great imitators- using imitation that is –
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Josquin Des Prez (THINK EARLY REN when you think his name)
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Instrumental music comes into its own in this period –

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baroque era

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He created French opera…traitor-

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Jean-Baptiste Lully (worked for Louie XIV)

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Allemande, courante, and alla hornpipe could be apart of one of these
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dance suite
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The most popular secular form in the renaissance esp. for the Italians –

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– Madrigal

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Medieval motets have this characteristic while Renaissance motets do not-

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 polytextual

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Speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaking of Gregorian, the text setting just demonstrated-

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- melisma

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The most popular French Secular form in the middle ages and Renaissance, not the most original name-

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 Chanson

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