Music 132 Test 2

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Pope Gergory I

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midevil, gregorian chant

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Palestrina

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renaissance sacred music composer. Roman Catholic liturgy.

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Claudio Monteverdi

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baroque composer, first important composer of opera

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George Handel

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baroque composer, oratorio

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Antonio Vivaldi

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baroque composer, concerto

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Johann Bach

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baroque musical, fugue

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Franz Haydn

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classical period, string quartet and symphony

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Wolfgang Mozart

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childhood prodigy, classical composer, greatest opera composer of all time

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Ludwig Beethoven

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bridged Classical and Romantic, symphonies and piano sonatas

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Franz Schubert

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romantic, 600+ lied

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Frederic Chopin

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romantic, exclusivelyt for piano, etude

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Richard Wagner

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romantic, musical drama, librettos

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Giuseppe Verdi

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romantic, italian opera

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Igor Stravinsky

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ballet music. primitivism.

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Arnold Schoenberg

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systematic method of composition that obscure pitch and key center. atonality.

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gregorian chant

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official liturgical song of the Roman Catholic Church.

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syllabic

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one note per syllable of text

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mellismatic

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many notes per syllable of text

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liturgical drama

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dramatic presentation of Biblical scenes.

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chant style characteristics

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vocal only (monophonic), slow

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organum

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the addition of one or more melodic lines to gregorian chant

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motet

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polyphonic choral set to a sacred latin text other than the mass

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renaissance mass/motet characteristics

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polyphonic voices, contrasting textures, stepwise melodies

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madrigal

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renaissance, polyphonic. vocal music without instruments. lively.

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word painting

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musical depiction of text

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a capella

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vocal music without instruments

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english lute song

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solo song with lute accompaniment. strophic form

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baroque characteristics

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faty guy - meatballs, wide melody, homophonic

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terraced dynamics

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dynamics change suddenly and are contrasting

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opera

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drama that is sung, using vocal soloists, chorus, orchestra, costumes and scenery.

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recetitive

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singing free rhythm, minimal accompaniment

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aria

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singing with full accompaniment, elaborate, strophic.

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basso continuo

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accompaniment made up of base (cello) and choral instrument (harp, organ, lute)

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oratorio

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religious music similar to opera but without staging, costumes, scenery.

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sequence

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immediate repition of a melody at a higher or lower pitch

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concerto

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fast-slow-fast. extended composition for instrumental solists and opera

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solo concerto

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orchestra against a soloist. separately.

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concerto grosso

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orchestra against small ensemble

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fugue

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polyphonic composition based on one main theme. keyboard

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cantana

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composition in several movements, written for chorus, one or more solists, and instrumental ensemble.

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classical characteristics

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emphasis on melody, lyrical melody, stepwise, smooth

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multimovement form

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divisions in large work separated by a pause. fast slow dance fast

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string quartet

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2 violins, cello, viola

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theme and variation form

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stated theme followed by a series of variations on that theme

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symphony

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extended orchestra exploiting the expanded range of tone color and dynamics of the orchestra

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sonata form: exposition. development, recapitulation

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presents instability, intensifies, resolves

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classical opera

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vocal, continuous drama arranged in scenes

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requiem

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liturgical mass for the dead

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romantic characteristics

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homophonic, wide melodies, pace and motion in rhythm

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art song/lied

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setting of a poem for solo voice and piano. music and poetry. emotions

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strophic

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same music, new text

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through composed

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text and melody change every verse

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character piece

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piano instrumental counterpart to vocal art song

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etude

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a study piece designed to help a performer master specific technical difficulties

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german romantic opera

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like folklore, triumph of good over evil

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libretto

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words to an opera

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wagner musical drama

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dramatic flow to story

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leitmotif

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musical motive or melody which represents character, object, idea, or situation

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program symphony

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work for orchestra in multiple movements related to a story

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modern characteristics

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complex, emphasis on silence, random to controlled range, makes people feel uncomfortable

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avant garde

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experimental composers who are in the forefront of musical development in the development of new and unconventional music styles

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primitivism

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evocation of primitive power through insistent rhythms and percussive sounds

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atonality

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musically treating each pitch importantly