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Understanding Music Test 2 OU
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Music
Undergraduate 1
10/08/2012

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Monteverdi: L. Orfeo
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ABA, polyphonic, monody, baroque, opera, madrigals, dance numbers, arias, trillos, passagios; drama served the music
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Barbara Strozzi: "Lagrime mie"
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vocal cantata, baroque, secular
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Handel: Messiah, "There were shepherds"
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oratorio, baroque, recitative
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Handel: Messiah, "Halleluiah" Chorus
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oratorio, baroque, recitative, ABA?
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, la primavera
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program music, ritornello, theme and variations, baroque, among the first successful examples of program music
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Bach: The Art of the Fugue, Contrapunctus III
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fugue, baroque
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
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homophonic, classical, opera, AB structure for drama; music served the drama
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Mozart: Piano Concerto Number 17 in G, K. 453
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piano, concerto
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Recitative
Definition
speech-like singing used to convey conversational dialogue
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Oratorio
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has no staging, not part of Sunday church service; large scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra; substitute for opera
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Tone painting
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when the music directly portrays the feeling of the music, so as to invoke dramatic imagery
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Bach's musical lineage
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shows music was treated as more of a craft than an art
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Castrato
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artificially created male soprano who dominated the Italian opera stage in the 17th century
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Exposition
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the first section of a fugue
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Movement
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a large, self-contained section within a larger work, such as a symphony
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Chamber music
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music for a small ensemble of two to about ten players, with one player to a part
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Episode
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short passages of other music which provide contrast to later subject entries in a fugue
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Concerto
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an instrumental work for solo instrument and orchestra
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Recitative in opera
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serves to bridge between other numbers, where the text keeps the story going
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Pipe organ
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known as the "King of the Instruments"
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Doctrine of Affections
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notion that an artist must select a desired affect, an emotional state that his or her work will achieve in the viewer or listener, which evokes a single, unadulterated emotional state
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Baroque period
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1600-1750, word baroque comes from Portuguese "barroco"
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Classical period
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1750-1825
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Terraced
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describes the use of dynamics in the baroque period
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Piano-forte (piano)
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new keyboard instrument in the classical period that meant "soft-loud"
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Ritornello form
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orchestral music that begins a movement; means return, which is appropriate as the opening music returns in various keys and fragments until the end
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Gallant style
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simple style of music during the classical period
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Vocal genres in the Baroque period
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vocal cantata, opera, oratorio
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Basso Continuo
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in baroque music, almost always consists of a bass line instrument and a keyboard instrument
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Vienna
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became one of the main music centers in Europe during the classical period
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Program music
Definition
instrumental music associated with a story, poem, or other extra-musical idea
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Enlightenment impact on music
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artists began to serve themselves as the relationship between composer and powerful consumer was broken
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Sources of instrumental music in the baroque period
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dance numbers, virtuosos, vocal styling
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Concerto grosso
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for a group of soloists and a small orchestra
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Fortspinnung (forward spinning)
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just as one instrument's melodic phrase is coming to an end, another instrument enters with a fresh melodic idea
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Bach
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referred to as the "father of the Western style of harmonization"
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Vocal cantata
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sizable work for small orchestra, chorus, and vocal soloists. could be religious or secular
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Aria
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a tuneful section in which the singer reflects upon the action that has just taken place
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Fugue
Definition
polyphonic composition built on a single principled theme called the subject
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Counter subject
Definition
distinctive polyphonic line that recurrently accompanies the subject in another voice in a fugue
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Ideal music
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universal language; noble and entertaining; expressive but in good taste; sound natural
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Florentine camaratta
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created opera
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Monody
Definition
solo singer accompanied by basso continuo
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Trillos
Definition
places in songs where performers are expected to improvise
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Passagios
Definition
improvisations in scales
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