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15 Cards in this Set
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The 6 music eras in order and years |
Medieval 1400 Renaissance 1400-1600 Baroque 1600-1750 Classical 1750-1815 Romantic 1815-1900 Modern 1900-now |
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The ways to describe music |
Melody, rhythm, harmony, texture, form, tempo/dynamics, color, music relationships |
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Saint Thomas Aquinas |
Articulated and defended orthodoxy, by synthesizing Greek rationalism and Christian doctrine. |
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Monophonic, homophonic polyphonic |
Musical textures: One line of transmission, one melody supported by a rhythmn,multiple lines of equal importance |
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Melisma |
The singing of multiple notes in one syllable. |
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Plato |
427-347 B.C.E wrote republic, laws, and timaeus. Convinced of the harmony in the universe. |
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Aristotle |
384-322 b.c.e Pupil of Plato, logical and analytical. Influenced scholasticism. Wrote politics and poetics |
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Saint Augustine |
354-430 c.e. One of Christianities most influential thinkers, from Numidia wrote confessions wrote about music being misused to seduce the senses. |
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Martianus |
Wrote the marriage of mercury and philology (early 5th century) martianus describes the 7 liberal arts |
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Trivium |
Grammer, dialectic (logic), rhetoric |
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Quadrivium |
Geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, harmonics (music) named by Boethius |
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Pythagoras |
Discovered octave, fifth, and fourth, long recognized as a consonance were generated by numeric ratios. |
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Epitaph of Seikilos |
A short song about the first century, |
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Ethos |
Greek 1.moral and ethical way of behaving 2.character, mood, or emotional effect of mode, meter, or melody. |
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Syllabic |
One note per syllable |
