Chapter 7 Flashcards
Who wrote “Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice
Nicola Vicentino
What does the word Affect mean
the singular predominant emotion of a piece
What did Vicentino say in “Ancient Music Adapted to Modern Practice” was the composers sole obligation
to animate the words and harmony to represent their passions
What does “Le istitutioni armoniche” mean
The Foundations of Music
Who wrote “Le istitutioni armoniche”
Gioseffo Zarlino
What did Zarlino acknowledge in his work
Contrapuntal intricacies often made words of vocal music hard to understand
What technique did composers advocate to allow for clear projection of the text
transparent polyphonic style
Who wrote “Le nuove musiche”
Giulio Caccini
What new practice did Caccini’s “Le nuove musiche” illustrate
Monody
What is Monody
Singers performing text in a style that measured and free, lyrical yet rhythmically fluid (lies partly between song and speech)
What was the “Florentine Camerata”
a group (club or society) that discussed issues related to the arts
what specifically did the Florentine Camerata discuss
they debated ways to recreate the style of singing used by the ancient Greeks in their dramas
What is Intermedi (an intermedio)
Entr’actes or intermezzos
What distinguishes the “Second Practice” from the “First Practice”
in the Second Practice the rhythms of the music were modeled after rhythms of speech and emphasized the projection of the text.
What is a “Basso Continuo”
a continuous bass line that provides the harmonic framework for the solo above it
What does Homophonic mean
a piece consisting of a principal melodic line with subordinate accompanying voices
Which Composer moved towards a homophonic texture and sang in his own works
Giacopo Peri
Often used synonymously with basso continuo. indicates root position harmonies through a series of numbers
figured bass
What new type of musical genre did solo singing allow for
Opera (sung drama)
What Opera did Giacopo Peri write
Euridice
What year was Euridice written
1600
What did Peri model Euridice after
Greek plays which many people believed featured singing throughout (not necessarily solo singing by the characters)
When did Program Music emerge and what was it
around 1700, it is purely instrumental music that is in some way connected to a story or idea
What did the Basso Continuo polarize
the Soprano or Melody
What does Tactus mean
each beat gets pretty much the same emphasis
What did the Traditional Modes (Dorian, Lydian etc..) give way to after the Renaissance
a single type of diatonic scale with half steps between 3-4 and 7-8 in a major scale
What did Intervalic harmonies give way to after the Renaissance
Chordal Harmonies and Progressions
What is Bardi associated with
Caccini, Florence, Monody
Who was Athanasius Kircher
he was a German Jesuit Scholar
How did Mattheson respond when Buttstett defended the old form of modal harmony
Mattheson wrote a treatise claiming that Mattheson was defending a theory of dead music which was no longer relevant
