Music Appr Test 02

Front 1

Name four Categories of Non-Western music: Based on what generates the sound

Back 1

1) Chordophones
2) Aerophones
3) Membranophones
4) Idiophones

Front 2

Chordophones

Back 2

Harps and Lutes
Generated by Stretched Strings

Front 3

Aerophones

Back 3

Flutes and Trumpets
Generated by a column of air

Front 4

Membranophones

Back 4

Basically Drums
Generated by stretched skin or other membrane

Front 5

Idiophones

Back 5

Bells, gongs, scrapers, rattles, and xylophones
Generated by it's own material make-up (No tension applied)

Front 6

Name four Instrumental Categories of Non-Western music: Based on what generates the sound

Back 6

1) Chordophones
2) Aerophones
3) Membranophones
4) Idiophones

Front 7

Non-Western music:
Chordophones

Back 7

Harps and Lutes
Generated by Stretched Strings

Front 8

Non-Western music:
Aerophones

Back 8

Flutes and Trumpets
Generated by a column of air

Front 9

Non-Western music:
Membranophones

Back 9

Basically Drums
Generated by stretched skin or other membrane

Front 10

Non-Western music:
Idiophones

Back 10

Bells, gongs, scrapers, rattles, and xylophones
Generated by it's own material make-up (No tension applied)

Front 11

Name six characteristics of Non-Western music:

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1) Oral Transmission
2) Improvisational
3) Voices, Singing
4) Instruments (See Examp.)
5) Rhythm and Melody
6) Variety of scales

Front 12

Name four characteristics of Western music:

Back 12

1) Oral Transmission
2) Improvisational
3) Voices
4) Instruments (See Examples

Front 13

Western Music Characteristics:

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1) Notation
2) Written record
3) Harmonic Development - Polyphonic as well (Non-West as well)
4) Major and Minor Scales Chromatic (1/2 Steps)
5) Distinct Performance Practices and Colors (esp Electronic)

Front 14

Vibrato

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1) Nuance
2) Slight Fluctuation
3) Lack of = Sterile sound
4) Used continually in Opera
5)

Front 15

Harmonic Development

Back 15

Combination of sounds (Proper use)

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Polyphonic Texture:

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Two or more melodies at a time.

Front 17

Two Part Form:

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1) Piece of music divided into two sections.
2) First part doesn't have to be repeated. "A B...AAB... ABAB"
3) Any relative length
4) Must end in "B"

Front 18

Three Part Form:

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1) ABA is an indication
2) Opening is the closing
3) "AABA"

Front 19

Rondo:

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1) Must end with "C"
2) "A" alternates
3) "ABACA"
X) Came from: Randeau French Version

Front 20

Woodwin Description:

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1) Made of wood at time
2) Metal Instruments use a wood reed
3) Soprano mostly
4) Clarinet, Oboe, Flute, Piccolo
5) Reeds

Front 21

Two Main Renaissance Music Types:

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1) Sacred (Latin)
2) Secular (Choirs)

Front 22

Four Renaissance Music Types:

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Sacred:
1) Mass
2) Motet
Secular:
3) Madrigal
4) Ballett

Front 23

Mass (Five Parts of):

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1) "Kyrie"
2) "Gloria"
3) "Credo"
4) "Sanctus"
5) "Agnus Dei"

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Motet:

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1) Latin
2) Ave Maria

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Madrigal:

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1) English
2) Romantic
3) Courtship Games
4) Poetic
5) Thomas Weekles

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Ballett:

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1) Only Monophonic one (of 4)
2) "Falla la la la"
30 Dance Like

Front 27

Joaquin Des Pres:

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1) Cannons and Rounds
2) First to be pleasing
3) Father of Musicians

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Giovani Gabrielli:

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1) First composer to use specific parts dedicated to specific instruments.

Front 29

Michael Pretoria (Michael Shultz):

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1) Last names both mean Sheriff
2) Syntagma Musician

Front 30

William De Machant:

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1) Clergy (Composer)
2) Important to Middle Ages - Era
3) Beneficiary of the church
4) Sec of the King
5) Musician / Priest / Court Official
6) Mass of Notre Dame
7) Mass of our Lady
8) Planned out as a musical whole
9) Ex "Kryrie".. ABA

Front 31

Gregorian Chant:

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1) 600 A.D.
2) Pope Gregory I
3) Monophonic Chants
4) Sacred Latin Chants
5) Duple or Triple hard to tell
6) Melody is narrow
7) Color is Narrow

Front 32

Troubadours:

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1) French Travelers
2) Troubadours = North Bound
3) Trouvere = South Bound
4) Minnisinger = German/Swiss
5) Nobility
6) Had Interns
7) Alba - "Dawn Song"
8) Was sung after being up all night (Alarm Clock)
9) Traveling Information
10) Monophonic
11) Shawm "Jew's Harp

Front 33

Organum:

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Earliest form of Polyphonic (2 or more). Popular with Women groups???

Front 34

Baroque:

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1) Monarches in control
2) Composers were like high paid workers - Not wealthy
3) Royal Wealth - main contributor
4) Curch - Music Directors - Funerals made money
5) Means Irregular
6) One mood only, Sad is sad, or happy is happy.
7) Immatation
8) Sudden shifts of sound
9) violin used heavily
10) Small and flexible instruments
11) Word Painting

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Dissonance:

Back 35

Sounds that clash

Front 36

Renaissance:

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1) Polyphonic Texture
2) Doesn't work well with voices

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Zenith of Baroque:

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1) 50-100 years
2) Best - Homophonic
3) Polyphonic returns and mostly used through out period as a whole