Audio review - Baroque Flashcards
Identify the title of the piece
Identify the poetic image
Describe the music
Spring, The Four Seasons
Sreams flows quietly with light wind creating small waves
Musical depction: violins play a fast wavy pattern
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“Spring” ritornello theme
Poetic Image: Spring has arrived
Musical depiction: rhythmic, bright and dance-like
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Spring, The Four Seasons
Poetic image: Birds celebrates the returns of spring with a happy song
Musical depiction: high-pitch trills; also repeated-notes
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Spring, The Four Seasons
Poetic image: Thunder and lightning of a storm
Musical depiction:violin’s tremolando passages (quick repetition of notes) describes thunder; rising 32nd note scales suggest lightning
Identify the title and movement of the audio recording
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Describe the music
Second movement of Spring, The Four Seasons
Poetic image: the goathered sleeps in a meadow besid his dog, the leaves make a gentle sound
Musical depiction:
- solo violin’s lazy melody describes the sleeping goatherd
- the violin’s dotted-note in parallel thirds describe the leaves gently making a sound
- the viola ostinato represents the barking dog
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Describe the music
Spring, The Four Seasons
Poetic image: nymphs and shepherds dance to bagpipe
Musical depiction:
- the bass pedal point suggests the drone of bagpipes
- the lilting compound meter creates a dance-like feeling
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Composer
Title of the entire piece
Describe the music.
Composer: JS Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Prelude (part A) from the Prelude and Fugue in B flat Major, BWV 866
- very fast broken chord in 32nd notes
- also 32nd note runs
- starts in F flat major and ends in F major (dominant key) and moves to the next section
Listen and answer the following:
Composer
Title of the entire piece
Describe the music.
Composer: JS Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier
Section B of the Prelude portion of the Prelude and Fugue in B flat Major, BWV 866
- extremely fast cadenza-like runs
- requires virtuosity (great skills) throughout
- improvisatory style contrasts with the controlled order demonstrated in the fugue
Listen and answer the following:
Composer
Title of the entire piece
Describe the music (see the hints below):
- describe the subject
- how many motives (smallest part) does the subject
have and describe each part.
Composer: JS Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier
The fugal Exposition of the Fugue from the Prelude and Fugue in B flat Major, BWV 866
The subject in B flat major is a very long and in top voice
The subject has two motives - the first is disjunct and the second is conjunct.
(conjunct = melodies that are mostly stepwise)
(disjunct = melodies that have leaps and change of diretion)
Listen and answer the following:
Composer
Title of the entire piece
Describe the music.
Composer: JS Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier
The Fugue from the Prelude and Fugue in B flat Major, BWV 866
- subject in bass voice
- countersubject 1 in middle voice
- countersubject 2 in top voice
- Tonal answer in top voice again
Identify the audio and provide the following:
Title of the entire work and composer
Title of this movement
Tempo of this section
Texture of this section
Predominant rhythm
Predominant affect
Messiah by Handel
Sinfony
Tempo: Grave
Texture of this section: homophonic
Predominant rhythm: dotted figure
Predominant affect: majestic, stately
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Title of the entire work and composer
Title of this movement
Tempo of this section
Texture
Number of voice
Subject introduced by
Type of answer
Predominant affect
Messiah by Handel
Title of this movement - Sinfony
Tempo of this section - allergo moderato*
Texture: polyphonic (fugal)
Number of voice: three
Subject introduced by: 1st violins and oboes
Type of answer: tonal
Predominant affect: energetic, lively
Identify the audio and provide the following:
Title of the entire work and composer
Voice type of this recitative
Type of recitative
Key
Tempo
Meter
Text
Word painting
Messiah by Handel
soprano recitative
recitativo secco
Key: C major
Tempo: not indicated
Meter: 4 / 4
Text “There were shepherds abiding in the field”
Identify the audio and provide the following:
Title of the entire work and composer
Title of this movement
Voice type of this recitative
Type of recitative
Key
Tempo
Meter
Text
Word painting
Messiah by Handel
soprano recitative
Type of recitative: recitativo accompagnato
Key: F Major
Tempo: Andante
Meter: 4 / 4
Text” “And Lo! The Angel of the lord came upon them”
Word painting: repeated 16th notes describe teh trembling of the fearful shepherds
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Title of the entire work and composer
Voice type of this recitative
Type of recitative
Key
Tempo
Meter
Text
Messiah by Handel
soprano recitative
Type of recitative: recitativo secco
Key: begins in D major
Tempo: not indicated
Meter: 4 / 4
Text” “And the angel said unto them: “Fear not:”
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Title of the entire work and composer
Voice type of this recitative
Type of recitative
Key
Tempo
Meter
Text
Messiah by Handel
soprano recitative
Type of recitative: recitativo accompagnato
Key: begins in D major
Tempo: not indicated
Meter: 4 / 4
Text” “And suddenly there as with the angel”
Identify the audio and provide the following:
Title of the entire work and composer
Movement genre
Key
Tempo
Meter
Text
Word painting
Messiah by Handel
Genre: chorus
Key: D major
Tempo: Allegro
Meter: 4 / 4
Text “Glory to God, glory to God in the highest, and peace on earth”
Word painting: “Glory to God in the highest” is in the upper voice lines
“And peace on earth” is shown by a drop of an octave in bass
Identify the audio and provide the following:
Title of the entire work and composer
Title, genre and part of this movement
Key of this section
Form
Tempo
Meter
Text of this section
Word painting in this section
Messiah by Handel
“Rejoice Greatly” - soprano aria - part A
Key of this section: B flat major
Form: ABA1
Tempo: Allegro
Meter: 4 / 4
Text of this section “Rejoice, rejoice, rejoice greatly, oh daughter of Zion”
Word painting:
- Rejoice has melismas to show the joy
- “Shout” is sudden and in the upper register
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Title of the entire work and composer
Movement genre
Key
Tempo
Meter
Text
Textures and give examples
what instruments are used to increase the mood of praise and joy?
Messiah by Handel
Genre: chorus
Key: D major
Tempo: Allegro
Meter: 4 / 4
Text “Hallelujah, for the Lord God”
Texture: alternation of homophonic and polyhphonic settings
- “Hallelujah!” has homorhythmic texture so the text is clear and powerful
” and He shall reigh for ever and ever” has imitative polyphony to emphasis the repeated words (ever and ever)
Trumps and drums heighten the overall mood (affect) of praise and joy
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Title of the entire work and composer
Title, genre and part of this movement
Key of this section
Text of this section
How is the mood of thoughtful created?
Messiah by Handel
“Rejoice Greatly” - soprano aria - part B
Key of this section: G minor
Text of this section “He is the righteous Savior”
The introspective (inward looking / thoughtful) mood is created by the minor mode and long vocal lines
