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89 Cards in this Set
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Middle ages refers to what period of time in European history?
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450-1450
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In the Middle Ages the most important musicians were who?
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Priests
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In the middle ages the organ was a prominent _______ instrument.
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Church
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The foremost composer of the 14th Century France was who?
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Guillame de Machut
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Guillame de Machut was _____, ______, _______ as well as a musician.
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Court official, poet, priest
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What are the parts of the ordinary of the Mass?
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Gloria, Kyrie, Credo
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During the Renaissance every educated person was expected to do what 3 things?
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1. Read Musical Notation
2. Be Skilled in Dance 3. Play a Musical Instrument |
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Who was known for writing string music in the Mid/Ren/Baroque period?
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Correlli
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The compelling drive and energy in baroque music are usually provided by what in music?
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Repeated Rhythmic Patterns
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The orchestra evolved during the Baroque period into a performing group based in the instruments of the _________ family.
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String
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The large group of players in a concerto grosso is known as the what?
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Tutti
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What were the Castrati?
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Male singers castrated before puberty
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Bach chreated masterpieces in all baroque forms except what?
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Opera
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The Text of the opera.
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Libretto
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T/F: Opera started in the Renaissance period?
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False
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______ Period's name means bizarre and elaborately ornamented.
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Baroque
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In Baroque music, melodies are heard once, or more than once?
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More than once
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_____ consists of one or more log sustained tones accompanying a melody.
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Drone
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Organum is a form of what?
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Homophony
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T/F: Pope Gregory wrote a lot of Gregorian Chant.
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False
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A Medieval dance. One of the earliest forms of instrumental music.
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Estampie
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A compositional procedure used in fugues in which a subject is imitated before it is completed; one voice tries to catch the other.
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Stretto
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Ars Nova
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"New Art"
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Between recitative and Aria
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Arioso
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Polyphonic composition based on one main theme or subject.
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Fugue
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Variation of a fugue subject in which the original time values of the subject are shortened.
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Diminution
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Main Theme
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Subject
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Medieval polyphony that consists of Gregorian Chant and one or more additional melodic lines
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Organum
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Two or more notes to one syllable of text
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Melismatic
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Speech-like melody that is sung by a solo voice accompanied only by a basso continuo
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Secco Recitative
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A short orchestral piece that opens and opera and sets the musical mood.
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Overture
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One who writes the text of an opera.
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Librettist
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Speech-like melody that is sung by a solo voice and accompanied by the orchestra
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Accomanied recitative
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"Orfeo"
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Monteverdi
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"La Primavera"
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Vivaldi
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"Notre Dame Mass"
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Machut
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"Wachet Auf"
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Johann Sebastian Bach
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Piece that took 24 days to write
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Messiah
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England's most importaint composer in the Baroque period
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Henry Purcell
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________ Learning: repetition--one line at a time
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Rote Learning
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Opposite of Melismatic; one note to one syllable of text
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Syllabic
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Polyphonic texture; obscures the original melody; more than one melody at the same time
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Paliphany
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_________ Rhythm: created by Leonin and Perotin; from the school of Notre Dame; definite time values and clearly defined meter
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Measured
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-Wrote "O Successores"
-Ran a convent -Visionary and a mystic -One of the only women composers in the Middle Ages |
Hildegard Von Bingen
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-Priest/court official
-Wrote the Notre Dame Mass -Mass ordinary vs. Mass proper |
Guillaume de Machaut
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Mass ________: consists of texts that remain the same from day to day throughout most of the church year. Composers wrote for this. Has 5 sung prayers (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Angnus dei)
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Mass Ordinary
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Renaissance means
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Rebirth
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Mass _____: Changes w/ the seasons
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Mass Proper
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5 sung prayers of the Mass Ordinary:
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1. Kyrie
2. Gloria 3. Credo 4. Sanctus 5. Agnus Dei |
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Musical center of the Renaissance
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Rome, Italy
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T/F: There was secular music in the Midieval and Renaissance periods.
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True
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The space between 2 bar lines
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Measure
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When a violin player plays more than 1 mote at the same time they are playing what?
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Double stops
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The lowest male voice part is the what?
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Bass
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The lowest female voice part is the what?
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Alto
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Percussion instruments are grouped by ______ and ______ instruments.
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Pitched and Non-pitched
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A broken chord
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Arpegio
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Very slow, broad
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Largo
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Slow
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Adagio
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Rapid repetition of a tone
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Tremolo
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Lively
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Vivace
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Small fluctuations of a pitch
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Vibrato
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Moderately slow, walking pace
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Andante
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Fast
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Allegro
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Moderately fast
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Allegretto
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Very slow, solemn
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Grave
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Extraordinary performing artist
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Mezzo-Sporano??
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Middle male voice part
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Baritone
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Highest male voice part
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Tenor
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These periods are an example of what type of periods?:
1. Classical 2. 20th Century 3. Romantic 4. Midieval 5. Baroque 6. Renaissasnce |
Stylistic Periods
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Notes that sound the same but are spelled differently
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Enharmonics
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Principle player
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Concert master
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Emphasized notes
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Accents
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T/F: A round is a type of imitation
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True
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______ Period starts in 1750
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Classical
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T/F: the piano was not used in the Classical Period
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False
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T/F: Sonata form has 2 diff. parts
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False
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"Show-off" time for a performer
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Cadenza
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Beethoven wrote how many symphonies?
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9
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Mozart wrote how many symphonies?
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46
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Haydn wrote how many symphonies?
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Over 104
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What composer was a child prodigy?
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Bethoveen
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A mass for the dead
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Requiem
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The 3 Classical Composers were who?
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Mozart, Bethoveen, Haydn
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Who wrote the 1812 Overature?
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Tchaikovsky
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Musical idea associated w/ a person, object or thought--Wagner
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Leitmotif
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Universal artwork
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Gesamtkunstwerk
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One movement programmatic piece for orchestra
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Tone Poem
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Instrumental music--not designed to tell a story
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Absolute music
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