Music App Exam 1

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The metronome was invented in 1816 by

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Johann Maelzel

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Homophonic

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one main melody that is accompanied by chords

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Monophonic texture

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is a single melodic line without accompaniment

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Heterophonic texture

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the combining of two or more textures in the same
composition

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Polyphonic texture

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is two or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest performed
at the same time

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After 1150 A. D. the center of polyphonic music was

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Paris at the Cathedral of Notre
Dame (1163).

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The first notable composers known by name were

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Leonin and Perotin.

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12th and 13th century music of the Notre Dame School developed

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rhythmic notation.
(Measured rhythm) (and pitches).

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Guillaume de Machaut was the foremost French composer of the 14th century called

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"new art" (ars nova)

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The five sections of the Mass Ordinary are

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Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

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The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly

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polyphonic.

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Renaissance choral music did not use instrumental accompaniment and is sometimes
known as the

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Golden Age of A Cappella.

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The two main forms of Sacred Renaissance music are the

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Motet and Mass.

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was the most important late Renaissance sacred composer

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Palestrina

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An important secular vocal music of the Renaissance was the Madrigal

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Set to a short
poem, usually about love, for several solo voices, combining homophonic and polyphonic
texture in the vernacular language and uses word painting.

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The Baroque period can be divided into three
parts:

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1600 - 1640
1640 - 1680
1680 - 1750

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Characteristic of Baroque music is Basso continuo - two instruments, a keyboard and
low melody instrument, like cello or bassoon which accompany a speechlike melody
characterized as

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secco recitative

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Opera was born in Italy around

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1575

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A recitative leads into

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arias and is a vocal line that imitates the rhythms and pitch
fluctuations of speech.

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A Concerto Grosso is

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a baroque instrumental work of several movements that contrast
in tempo. It features a solo group pitted against a larger group

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The form of the first and last movements of the Concerto Grosso is often

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Ritornello
form.

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Trio Sonata has three melodic lines

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two high ones and one lower one played by two
instruments.

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Classical music refers to music written in the style common in the last quarter of the

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18th century

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The sequence of movements of a symphony are:

For the
concerto they are:

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fast, slow, dance like, fast.

fast, slow, fast.

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The Cadenza is an unaccompanied showpiece in the _______ of the classical
_________, coming at the end of the ___________.

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first movement
Concerto
Recapitulation

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Beethoven's only opera is entitled

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Fidelio