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Harmony

Two notes sounding at once

Consonnance

A sound that is at rest or calm

Dissonance

A sound that is tense and harsh

Monophony

One single melodic line

Polyphony

Two or more independent melodic lines

Homophony

One melodic line with accompaniment

Orchestra

An ensemble made up of the four families of instruments

Melody

A complete musical idea

Motive

A musical that sounds like a fragment, incomplete

Concert Meister

First chair in the string section

Microtonality

A type of music which uses intervals smaller than a half step

Atonality

A system of music that has no tonal center

Interval

The distance between two notes

The three main members of the New Viennese School

Arnold Schöenberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webner

The composer credited with creating serialism

Arnold Schöenberg

Serialism

A system of music which organizes all the 12 notes of the chromatic scale so that no one now is more important than another

5 types of intervals

Major, minor, diminished, augmented, perfect

Dates of the Baroque

1600-1750

Elements of opera

Aria & Recitative

Concerto

Multi movement work for orchestra and soloist

Concerto has 3 movements, classified by

Fast slow fast

Ritornello

When the theme of the piece returns (only in concertos)

Baroque composers

Antonio Vivaldi - G.F. Handel - J.S. Bach

Suite

Collection/grouping of dances

Orchestral Suite

Collection/grouping for orchestra

Parts of a suite

Prelude - Alemande - Courente - Sarabande - Guige

Romanticism

Emotionally expressive

Classicism

Emotionally restrained

Dates of Classical Period

1750 - 1820

Symphony

Multi movement work for orchestra (standard: 4 movements)

Composers of the Classical Period

W.A. Mozart - F.J. Haydn - Ludwig Van Beethoven

Dates of the Middle Ages

500 - 1450

Congregational singing was brought back by

Martin Luther

Renaissance was the birth of

Grecor Roman human thinking

Dates of the Renaissance

(1300) 1450 - 1600

Rythmic notation was created by

Léonin & Pérotin

Renaissance was the

Golden Age of Polyphony

Dates of Protestant Reformation

1517 - 1648

Renaissance is considered the

"Age of Humanism"

Léonin & Pérotin created a musical style known as

School of Notredom

Consort

Grouping of instruments of like kind

Lute Song

Song accompanied by lute (John Dowland)

Who was responsible for collecting and codifying the chants of the Catholic church?

Pope Gregory

Keyboards of the Renaissance

Harpsichord - Clavichord

Instrumental music was

Not modeled after vocal music

Madrigal

Secular - Polyphonic - Vocal - A capella

Montet

Sacred - Polyphonic - Vocal - A capella

Arrange in order: Rhyming Notation - Organum - Polyphony - Monophony

1. Monophony


2. Organum


3. Polyphony


4. Rhythmic Notation

Music notation was created by

Guido D'Arezzo