Choral Lit Exam 1 Listening Facts (SUMMER 2019) Flashcards
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Billings - The Lord is Risen Indeed
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- Anthem
- harmonically not as complex
- single line phrase, choir tutti
- then, then, then (phrase w/cool cresc.)
- doesn’t say “my son” all over
Billings has no formal training - just some interactions with musicians for help
Billings has singing schools
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Billings - I am the Rose of Sharon
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- Anthem
- Melody gets passed around when individual parts sing
- time signature switches from 2/4 to 6/8
Recognition:
- “skipping”
- “Rise Up”
- “for lo the winter is passed”
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Billings - David’s Lamentation
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- Anthem
- sacred Text
- leading to sacred harp
- sounds most like sacred harp out of all of his compositions
Recognition:
- “wept”
- “oh my son”
- melody rise and fall
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Mozart - Regina Coeli, K276
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- chorus
- quartet
- hallelujah chorus quoted
- shows off importance of orchestral color.
Showing the orch. Is more than just doubling
- 2 oboes, 2 trumpets, timpani, strings, continuo
- Strings = adding texture
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Mozart - Dixit Dominus - from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K. 339
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- in 3/4
- stretto entrances
- short phrases
- typical orchestra did Salzburg works (2 violins, cello, bass, continue, Trumpet, timpani, 3 Trombone’s - colla parte)
- triumphant sounding Mozart that isn’t Regina Coeli
Dixit is in 3/4, Laudate is in 4/4 (alpha-numeric order)
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Mozart - Laudate Pueri - from Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K. 339
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- Bum, bum bum BAAAAA ba dum!
- in 4/4
- Double Fugue
- instruments double voice parts (colla parte)
- Salzburg Orchestration (2 violins, cello, Bass, continuo, trumpet, timpani, 3 Trombone’s=colla parte - alto, tenor, and bass trombone)
- vespers = evening service-mostly sir and listen (no preaching)
- 5 psalms plus Gloria patri
- More backward writing (Fugue, stretto entrances, instruments doubling voice parts)
Dixit is in 3, Laudate is in 4 (alpha-numeric order)
-most like Mozart kyrie
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Mozart - Ave Verum Corpus
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- Influenced BY Michael Haydn and influenced Schubert
- long sustained notes
- Chromaticism
- Strings did not double
- strings were part of the texture
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Mozart - Introit: Requiem - from Requiem
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- Chain of suspensions
- Cantus firmus in the opening
- backward looking because of the Cantus Firmus in the tenor
- Also very modern because the trombones are independent
- Not Stille antico because the strings are not doing that busy writing
Recognition:
- treble soloist w/light strings
- Bomp-String, Bomp-string
- hear “Requiem”
- Et lux per peeeeetua
- minor key
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Mozart - Kyrie - from Requiem
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- Intense Kyrie
- 4/4 time
- Double fugue
- trombones in this movement are colla parte (in the rest of the Requiem, they are independent)
- example of Mozart looking back - because of the doubling (strings and brass)
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Mozart - Lacrymosa - from Requiem
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- bomp da da, bomp da da
- 3/4 time
- supposed to symbolize heavy footsteps
- didn’t finish writing it
- wife hired Süssmayer to finish writing it
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Haydn - Kyrie - from Missa brevi St. Joannis de Deo (Little Organ)
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- less intense 4/4 time Kyrie
- No Fugue
- ABA format
- 2 violins, Cello, Bass, and Organ
- No solo?
- slow arpeggios in strings
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Haydn - Agnus Dei - from Missa brevis St. Joannis de Deo (“Little Organ”) H4. H.XXII, 7 B2 (1778)
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- Dona nobis has different character than the rest of the Agnus Dei
- this Dona nobis is in a major key but it is still somber
No solos
Recognition slow 3/4 -violin 1 and 2 -slow arpeggios 1&2&3& -subito dynamic shifts/released tension f, p, f, p
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Haydn - Awake the Harp - from The Creation
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- melismatic writing
- fugue
- Ends the 3rd day of the Creation
- recit. at the beginning
- Preceded by the three angels singing
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Haydn- The Heavens are Telling - from The Creation
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- Has a trio
- trio alternates w/chorus
- plays with tempo at cadences
- genre- oratorio
- choruses of praise - celebrate and praise what happened before
- kind of like Greek chorus - commenting on previous event
- 3 angels narrate (Gabriel- sop, Uriel - tenor, Raphael-bass)
Recognition:
- Big Brass
- strings = motor rhythm
- “displays the firmament”
- “The wonder of his works”
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Haydn - Achieved is the Glorious Work - from The Creation
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- Chorus, trio, chorus
- orchestra is expanded
Recognition:
- happy, jubilant, English
- strings = moving, some doubling, interlude playing, string line chugs along
- solo trio
- “his name forever” - fugue
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Schubert - Kyrie - from Mass in G
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- gentle smooth kyrie in 3/4
- no fugue (Mozart’s has double Fugue)
- ABA kyrie (choir solo choir)
- choir enters at the same time as orchestra
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Schubert - Gloria - from Mass in G
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- telescoping of text between doors I/bass soloists and tenor/alto chorus (singing miserere nobis)
- Sop and bari solo alternate w/chorus
Recognition:
- The only Gloria
- treble/bari duet
- ascending opening lines (per expectation)
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Schubert - Agnus Dei - from Mass in G
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- Treble, Bass, treble solos
- choir only sings miserere and dona
- key center is e minor, not the same as the rest of the mass. (G, D , G, D, e minor)
- Dona nobis ends in a Major Key (G Major)
- this Dona is somber, unlike most.
- mDona usually = skipping out of the service
(This one has solos, the Haydn does not)
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Schubert - Lebenslust
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- Quartet
- use of Piano
- in 6/8
- homophonic -some dueting
- growing importance of the piano
- 3 stanzas of text, only uses 1
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Schubert - Schicksalslenker (aka: Des Tages Weihe)
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- Piano
- in 3/4 instead of 6/8
- originally written for quartet
- roll of piano makes it romantic
- specific genre - vocal chamber music instead of vocal partsong. Original intent=1 voice/part
-piece with piano and contains no solos
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Schubert - Credo - from Mass in G
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- G Major
- walking bass line 1&2&3&4&
- some text painting “Et resurexit” and ascendit
- theme from beginning comes back at the end
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The Salzburg Orchestration consists of
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Violin 1, violin 2, Cello, bass, continue, trumpet, timpani, organ?
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Haydn - The Creation
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- Salieri played on the premiere
- formula:
- spoken
- soloist dang
- choir sings
Orchestra expanded (includes viola, more winds, more horns)
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Angels from Haydn - The Creation
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Gabriel - Soprano
Uriel - Tenor
Raphael - bass
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Schubert Mass In G (general notes)
-All strings included (including viola)
No brass!
Violin1, violin 2, VIOLA, bass/organ
-Legato playing indicated w/the slur marking
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Ordinary of the mass
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Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus and Benedictus
Agnus Dei (which includes Dona Nobis Pacem)
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Proper of the mass
Introit
Gradual with Alleluia or Tract (Sequence)
Offertory
Communion
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Ordinary and proper of the mass
Kyrie (o)
Gloria (o)
Gradual w/Alleluia or Tract (sequence) (p)
Credo (o)
Offertory (p)
Sanctus (including Benedictus and Hosanna (o)
Agnus Dei (includes Dona nobis pacem) (o)
Communion (p)
Ite, Missa est, or Benedicamus
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Mozart Requiem
orchestrations
Introit: Requiem
Introit: Requiem
-violin 1, Violin 2, VIOLA, cello, bass, trumpet, trombone, timpani, organ, more brass and winds added to expand orchestra
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Mozart Requiem orchestrations
| Kyrie
Kyrie
- same as Introit
- colla parte doubling (looking back)
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Mozart Requiem orchestrations
| Lacrymosa
Lacrymosa
- violin 1, violin 2, viola ONLY
- looking forward- viola, and no colla parte ur stile antico- independent lines.
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Missa brevis
Short, small orchestration, just strings
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Missa solemnis
Longer than brevis, add trumpet, brass, timpani, more winds (oboes etc.)
Solemn= bright, festive, dressed up
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Missa brevis et. solemnis
Short, but dressed up with winds, timpani, and brass
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Vespers
Evening service- all music
5 psalms and Gloria Patri
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Mozart Requiem orchestration
Expanded!
Included violas!!
More winds/brass
Forward looking
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The creation general notes
Salieri played harpsichord at premiere
Formula spoken, soloist, chorus
Like Greek chorus
Angels -
Gabriel -S
Uriel - T
Raphael -B
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Schubert Mass in G
| General notes
- All strings, including Viola
| - Legato playing indicated w/slur
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Billings general notes
- Associated w/singing schools
- Anthems are in English (if in Latin it would be called a motet)
- Billings had singing schools to teach people how to sing the hymns
- Not conservatory, more like pop up...area to area trying to preserve the written tradition
