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Test I
Music in the Human Imagination Test I
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Undergraduate 1
09/12/2011

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Term
Fundamentals of Western Music
Definition
Rhythm, meter, and tempo
Pitch and dynamics
Timbre
Melody
Harmony
Texture
Tonality and modality
Form, genre, and style
Term
Characteristics of Plainchant
Definition
Nonmetrical
Modal
Monophonic
Syllabic or melismatic declamation
Antiphon or sequence
Term
"In Paradisum"
composer? Meter? Mode? Texture? Declamation? Genre?
Definition
Anonymous, Nonmetrical, Medeval Mode, Monophonic, Syllabic, Antiphon
Term
"Columba aspexit"
Composer?
Meter?
Mode?
Texture?
Declamation?
Genre?
Form?
Definition
Hildegard of Bingen (12th c.)
Nonmetrical
Medeval Mode
Monophonic
Melismatic
Sequence
Double Verse Form
Term
Double Verse Form
Definition
AA, BB, CC, etc
Term
Troubadours
Definition
All About Non-Church (secular) music about Chivalrous love
Term
"La douza voz"
Meter?
Mode?
Texture?
Form?
Genre?
Definition
Non Metrical
Medeval Mode
Monophonic
Strophic form w/ bar form
ALBA
Term
Strophic form with bar form is?
Definition
Same music with different text with each repeat. Bar form is aab
Term
How was polyphony used in Medieval times?
Definition
As a way to embellish plainchant
Term
"Alleluia"
Composer?
Meter?
Mode?
Texture?
Sacred or secular?
Genre?
Definition
Perotin
Nonmetrical
Medieval Mode
Polyphonic
Sacred
ORGANUM
Term
"Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient"
Composer?
Metrical?
Sacred or secular?
Genre?
Definition
Machaut
Metric
Secular
Chanson
Term
Liturgy
Definition
A system of Worship
Term
Pope Gregory I
Definition
Standardized music, thus made it more important in the church
Term
Renaissance
Definition
Rebirth
Term
Medieval Organum
Definition
Original Plainchant in Bass voice with new melodies composed above it to create polyphony
Term
Renaissance was about...
Definition
the individual
Term
What was the Renaissance approach to Plainchant?
Definition
The plainchant is placed in the soprano voice, and other voices end up losing independence, creating homophony.
Term
Guillaume Dufay
Definition
Composer/Priest, studied in Italy. One of the first composers to be universally revered and to acquire personal wealth from compostion
Term
"Ave maris stella"
Genre?
Form?
Mode?
Definition
Hymn
Strophic
* Paraphrasing*
Medieval mode
Term
5 parts of the Mass
Definition
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Term
Blend of imitative counterpoint and homophony is a characteristic of what style?
Definition
High Renaissance Style
Term
Equal voiced melodies are a characteristic of what style?
Definition
High Renaissance
Term
Josquin Desprez
Definition
Composed in High Renaissance style. Perfected the polyphonic mass.
Term
"Missa Pange Lingua"
Composer?
Genre?
Definition
Josquin Desprez
Mass: Kyrie and Gloria
*Paraphrase of a plainchant hymn*
Term
Imitation
Definition
First voice enters on a motive. Staggered entrances for other voices on the SAME motive but at different pitch levels. First voice enters again on a new motive. Staggered entrances for other voices on the same new motive but at different pitch levels. Etc.
Term
Word painting
Definition
musical illustration of text
Term
The meaning of text is very important in what style?
Definition
High Renaissance
Term
"Mille regrets"
Composer?
Definition
Josquin
Term
Giovanni Palestrina
Why is he important?
Definition
Saved music, hence known as the Prince of Music. Religious music.
Term
Thomas Weelkes
Definition
Composer of english madricals
Term
Galliard
Definition
Renaissance Dance
Term
Baroque music, classified by extravagant style combined with rigid formal control, led to the rise of which two types of music?
Definition
Opera and instrumental music.
Term
Giovanni Gabrieli
Definition
Organist at St. mark's Basilica. Used Polychoral technique (Different choirs in different parts of the church)
Term
"O magnum mysterium"
What's different about this?
Who is the composer?
Definition
2 choirs in different lofts
Gabrieli
Term
Musical Style of the Early Baroque:
Rhythm and Meter?
Form?
Tonality?
Definition
Clear and definite
ground bass form
Major and Minor
Term
Key genre of Baroque is?
Definition
Opera
Term
Recitative
Definition
Declaim words musically in a heightened, theatrical manner
Term
Aria
Definition
Extended piece for solo singer
Term
Monteverdi
Definition
Wrote first great Opera
Term
Henry Purcell
Definition
Wrote only great English opera before the 20th century
Term
The three sources of Instrumental Music
Definition
Dance, Virtuosic improvisation, and vocal music
Term
Girolamo Frescobaldi
Definition
Virtuoso organ player for St Peter's. Big influence on Bach
Term
Balletto and Corrente are?
Definition
Baroque dances
Term
Concerto- What are the three movements?
Definition
1 Fast, Bright
2 Slow, emotional
3 Even faster
Term
Ritornello
Definition
?
Term
vivaldi's volin concerto, mvm. III is what form?
Definition
ritornello
Term
JS Bach's birth and death year
Definition
1685-1750
Term
Brandenburg Concerto year?
Definition
1721
Term
Concerto Grosso
Definition
Orchestra contrasts with small group of soloists
Term
Fugue
Definition
Polyphonic composition for a fixed number of voices built on a single principle theme
Term
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Years?
Definition
Books by Bach
1722, 1744
Term
Minuet
Definition
triple meter dance, moderate tempo
Term
Gigue
Definition
compound meter dance, fast
Term
Binary form
Definition
a a b b
Term
Jean-Phillipe Rameau was famous for?
Definition
Treatise on Harmony. Also an opera composer
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