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Pope Gregory

-Gregorian Chant


(590-604)

Charlemagne

spread Gregorian Chant


neumes


768-814

Guido of Arezzo

Staff


Guidonian Hand (notation on staff)


1025

Hildegard of Bingen

colorful language


divine visions


1098-1179

Cantus Firmus

Imitative Polyphony


Medieval music

Countess of Dia

poem


courtly love


Medieval

organum

4th,5th, and octave chants


Medieval

Guillame de Machaut

Isorhythm


Notre Dame Mass


1300-1377

Josquin

Ave Maria


motet


latin


1450-1521

Petrucci

Venice


Music Printing


Renaissance

Palestrina

Pope Marcellus Mass


credo


polyphony


1567

Weelkes

As Vesta was Descending from Latmos Hill


madrigal


Renaissance



Florentine Camarata

beginning of opera


recitatives and arias


based on ancient greecian art


Baroque



Oreo, Monteverdi

toccata


opera


ritornello form


1567-1643

Basso Continuo

Figured bass


2 lines of music one for bass one for chords

Dido and Aeneas

early baroque


aria


Doctrine of Affections


1689

Suites

dance compositions


binary form


Baroque



Vivaldi's Concerto

ritornello form


1678-1741

Johann Sebastian Bach

born in Germany


trained to be music director


Weinmar-court organist (toccata/fugue)


Cothen-prince's court, music director, instrumental music (Brandenburg Concertos)


Leipzig-teach at church school, music director for two churches, (Cantatas)


1685-1750

George Friedric Handel

born in Germany


trained to be music director


wrote opera in Germany and Italy


moved to London


head of two opera companies in England (1 a royal patronage) both failed


wrote English oratorios (much cheaper) $$$


1685-1759

texture

voice of music

rhythm

organization of the pulse of the music

melody

succession of pitches that form a coherent whole



sequence

motive that drops higher/lower consecutive times

harmony

system of organization of pitches

Form

sequential order/organization of piece




types: Ritornello, de Capo Aria, binary, fugue

Ritornello

full group (refrain), small group, f,s,f,s, etc.



de Capo Aria

ritornello, solo, ritornello(refrain)

Binary

||: A B:||

Fugue

exposition, episode, statement, ep., s, ep., s, etc.




melody=subject; in statement but not ep.

Trio Sonata

4 instruments


(2 violins, 1 cello, 1 other)

Solo Concerto

Solo vs. full group (de Capo Aria)

Concerto Grosso

Full group vs. small group

cantata

mini opera


recitatives/arias

Lutheran Chorale

cantata element


hymns