Music 201 Exam 1

Front 1

canzona

Back 1

renaissance instrumental work, often invovling couterpoint

Front 2

castrato

Back 2

male singer casterated before puberty to retain high voice. common in 18th century

Front 3

chorale

Back 3

a protestant hymn sung in unison by the entire congression in even rhythm. often harmonized for use by church chior.

Front 4

concerto grosso

Back 4

featured a small group of instruments contrasted with the whole group

Front 5

courtly love

Back 5

stylized convention of poetry and code of behavior developed in the medieval courts of southern france.

Front 6

ground bass

Back 6

a phase in the bass tht is repeated over and over again

Front 7

madrigal

Back 7

secular vocal work ,often in italian ,for a small group of singers

Front 8

magnus liber organi

Back 8

"great book of polyphony", late 12th century collection of polyphonic compositions designed for the cathedral of notre dame in paris

Front 9

melismatic

Back 9

musical setting of text with a large number of notes to a single syllable

Front 10

modes

Back 10

system of melodic organizatiomn used in music of the middle ages and early renaissance, there are four main medical modeswsm designating pieces ending on D,E, F and G, respectivly

Front 11

motet

Back 11

(renissance)a vocal setting of a latin text, usually sacred

Front 12

neumatic

Back 12

musical setting of text with varying numbers of notes per syllable

Front 13

octatonic scale

Back 13

scale with eight notes within the octave, seperated by a series of alternating whole and half steps

Front 14

opera seria

Back 14

"serious opera", italian borque form of opera in three acts, with conventional plots, and alternating recitatives and arias

Front 15

passion

Back 15

similar to the ortatorio. an unstaged dramatic sacred work, featuring solo singers (including a narrator). choir, and orchestra and based on one of the gospel accounts of the last days of jesus

Front 16

prelude(toccata)

Back 16

free, improvisatory work or movement, usually for organ

Front 17

recitative

Back 17

music for solo voice and simple accompaniment, designed to reflect the irregularity and naturalness of speech

Front 18

ritornello

Back 18

an orchestral passage in a concerto that returns several times, in the same or different keys

Front 19

secular music

Back 19

music that is nonreligious

Front 20

strophic song

Back 20

song in which all stanzas are sung to the same music

Front 21

suite

Back 21

a series of short piecesm usually based on various baroque dance forms

Front 22

syllabic

Back 22

musical setting of text with one note per syllable

Front 23

troubadour

Back 23

poet-musican of medieval southern france

Front 24

troueve

Back 24

poet-musician of medieval northern france

Front 25

interval

Back 25

distance in pitch between two notes

Front 26

scale

Back 26

a system of pitch organization-a series of whole and half steps

Front 27

melody

Back 27

horizontal organization of pitches-notes sound one after the other

Front 28

harmony

Back 28

vertical organization of pitch-2 or more notes sound at the same time

Front 29

chord

Back 29

3 or more simultaneous sounds

Front 30

arpeggio

Back 30

play a chord one note at a time

Front 31

duration

Back 31

(time)-the length of notes and rests

Front 32

rhythm

Back 32

combination of patterns of duration

Front 33

tempo

Back 33

rate of speed of music: largo-adagio(slowly), andante-moderato(moderate), amd allergo-vivance-presto(fast)

Front 34

meter

Back 34

organization of the beat into groups-patterns of strong and weak beats;downbeat-upbeat or anacrusis;duple-triple-free-mixed-syncopation

Front 35

dynamics

Back 35

level of loudness; pianisamo, piano, mesopiano, meso forte, forte, fortesemo, sportzando

Front 36

genre

Back 36

type or catergory of music

Front 37

notatioin

Back 37

the use of written or printed symbols to indicate musical sounf

Front 38

octave

Back 38

unison, m2, M2, m3,M3, TT, P4, P5, m6, M6, m7, M7 octave

Front 39

textures

Back 39

thin-thick; monophonic-homophonic-polyphonic

Front 40

folk music

Back 40

the traditional music that grows out of the folk culture of a nation, region, or ethnic group-a living, ever-changing music that reflects the spirit and personality of the people who create, perform, and value it

Front 41

field recording

Back 41

to preserve traditional folk songs

Front 42

mass

Back 42

polyphonic settings of part of the massm especially the ordinary(kyrie, gloria, credo, sanctus, angue dei)

Front 43

orgabum

Back 43

early polyphony

Front 44

ballad

Back 44

have many stanzas, each frquency comprised of four lines ofpoetry with a consistant rhyme scheme

Front 45

cadence

Back 45

are like punctuations in grammar, provide stopping points in the flow of the discourse.

Front 46

consonance

Back 46

pleasant sounding harmony

Front 47

dominant

Back 47

chord V in a key is second importance to the tonic chord

Front 48

fiddle tune

Back 48

a common genre for folk dance music. tunes arranged for a variety of instruments, notably string bands, which in the 19th century featured fiddle and banjo.

Front 49

lining out

Back 49

using a combination of their own memory and the leading of someone with a powerful voice

Front 50

homophoic(texture)

Back 50

mostly the instruments play in the same rhythm at the same time

Front 51

fugue

Back 51

worked out polyphonic composition that uses a theme that occurs in all voicesm or musical lines in turn.

Front 52

basic 4 families

Back 52

strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion