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Refers to a characteristic way of using melody, rhythm, tone color, dynamics, harmony, texture and form. The particular way these elements are combined can results in a total sound thats distinctive or unique.
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Style
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Middle Ages Dates
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450 - 1450
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Renaissance Dates
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1450 - 1600
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Baroque Dates
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1600 - 1750
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Classical Dates
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1750 - 1820
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Romantic Dates
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1820 - 1900
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Contemporary Dates
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1900 ->
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Consists of melody set to sacred Latin texts and sung without accompaniment.
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Gregorian Chant
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In the middle ages instead of major and minor they had these, which were...
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Church Modes; consist of 7 different tones on an eighth tone that duplicates the first an octave higher.
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Church Mode staff
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consists of 4 lines instead of 5 and have square and diamond notes.
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Consists of one or more long, sustained tones accompanying a melody.
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A Drone
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Music Performed outside of the church.
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Secular Music
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These people would take the most recent news and make a story out of it to perform in the streets.
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Minstrels
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Medieval music consisting of gregorian chant and use one or more additional melodic lines. (first attempt at harmony)
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Organum
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This is what people looked forward to every year and wrote about often
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Primavera - spring
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These consists of texts that remain the same from day to day throughout the church each year.
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Mass ordinary (Mass)
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The 5 sung prayers of the mass ordinary are:
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1. Kyrie Eleison
2. Gloria 3. Credo 4. Sanctus 5. Agnus Dei |
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Musical representations of specific poetic images
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Word Painting
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Choral unaccompanied music
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Acapella
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The 2 forms of Renaissance music
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Motet and The Mass
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A polyphonic choral work set to a sacred latin text other than the ordinary of the mass.
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Motet
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A polyphonic choral composition made up of 5 sections
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Mass Ordinary (Mass)
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Vocal music of the Renaissance
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Made for solo voices with 0-2 accompanying instruments
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A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
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Madrical
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A dance-like song for several solo voices
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The Renaissance Ballett (Fa-La)
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A Versatile plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear - ancestor to the guitar
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Lute
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Was first created in the St. Marks Cathedral in Venice
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Stereophonic Sound
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A polyphonic composition based on one main theme, called a Subject.
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A Fugue
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The main theme of a fugue
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The subject
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Different melodic lines that imitate the subject of the fugue.
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Voices
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An alteration of hard and soft dynamics
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Terraced dynamics
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The ancestor of the piano which is played with one or two keyboards, the top being soft and the bottom being loud
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Harpsichord
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What keyboards are called for the organ
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Manuals
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Has a set of 5 keyboards(manuals) and pedals
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Organ
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The organ requires these to be activated in order to be played
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Stops
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Where the organist is seated, and no sound comes out of the organ btw
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Console
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The baroque orchestra originally started with this instrument group
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Sting -> violins
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A piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition.
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Movement
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When a small group of soloists is pitted against a larger group of players called the tutti.
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Concerto Grosso
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The large group in a concerto grosso.
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Tutti
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An alteration of hard and soft dynamics
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Terraced dynamics
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The ancestor of the piano which is played with one or two keyboards, the top being soft and the bottom being loud
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Harpsichord
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An alteration of hard and soft dynamics
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Terraced dynamics
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What keyboards are called for the organ
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Manuals
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The ancestor of the piano which is played with one or two keyboards, the top being soft and the bottom being loud
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Harpsichord
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Has a set of 5 keyboards(manuals) and pedals
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Organ
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What keyboards are called for the organ
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Manuals
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The organ requires these to be activated in order to be played
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Stops
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Has a set of 5 keyboards(manuals) and pedals
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Organ
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An alteration of hard and soft dynamics
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Terraced dynamics
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The organ requires these to be activated in order to be played
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Stops
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The ancestor of the piano which is played with one or two keyboards, the top being soft and the bottom being loud
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Harpsichord
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Where the organist is seated, and no sound comes out of the organ btw
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Console
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Where the organist is seated, and no sound comes out of the organ btw
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Console
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What keyboards are called for the organ
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Manuals
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The baroque orchestra originally started with this instrument group
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Sting -> violins
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The baroque orchestra originally started with this instrument group
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Sting -> violins
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Has a set of 5 keyboards(manuals) and pedals
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Organ
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A piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition.
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Movement
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A piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition.
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Movement
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When a small group of soloists is pitted against a larger group of players called the tutti.
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Concerto Grosso
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The organ requires these to be activated in order to be played
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Stops
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When a small group of soloists is pitted against a larger group of players called the tutti.
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Concerto Grosso
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Where the organist is seated, and no sound comes out of the organ btw
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Console
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The large group in a concerto grosso.
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Tutti
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The large group in a concerto grosso.
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Tutti
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The baroque orchestra originally started with this instrument group
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Sting -> violins
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A piece that sounds fairly complete and independent but is part of a larger composition.
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Movement
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When a small group of soloists is pitted against a larger group of players called the tutti.
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Concerto Grosso
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The large group in a concerto grosso.
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Tutti
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The 3 main instruments in a concerto grosso
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Violin, flute, harpsichord
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An ornament back and forth sound
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Trill
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Bach never wrote for the Piano, he wrote for the ___ and the ___
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Harpsichord and organ
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A composition in several movements for one to eight instruments.
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Sonata
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Bach had __ children, __ of which became well known composers.
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20; 4
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Led to the piano
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Clavicord
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A hhym tune, easy to sing and remember, having only one note to a symbol.
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Chorale
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A short composition based on the hymn tune that reminded the congregation of the melody
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Choral prelude
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Originally a piece that was sung. Designed for Lutheran service in Germany. A sermon in Music.
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Cantada
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Sets of Dance inspired music made up of movements that area l written in the same key but differ in tempo, meter, and character.
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Suites
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A large scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra; it is usually in a narrative text.
- differs from opera in that it has no acting, scenery, or costumes. |
Oratorio
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World's greatest opera and oratorio composer
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Handel
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Handel's most well known oratorio and its 3 parts
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Messiah (1741)
part1 - christmas section part2 - Easter section part3 - appropriate any time |
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King George the 1st stood up during this song so now everyone always does today
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Hallelujah
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KNOW SONGS BY TITLE AND COMPOSER, known vocal categories, know meter, and how to identify musical era
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BITCH
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