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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)

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-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

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Introit

Gradual with Alleluia or Tract (Sequence)

Offertory

Communion

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Ordinary and proper of the mass

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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

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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

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Kyrie

  • same as Introit
  • colla parte doubling (looking back)
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Mozart Requiem orchestrations

Lacrymosa

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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

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Short, small orchestration, just strings

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Missa solemnis

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Longer than brevis, add trumpet, brass, timpani, more winds (oboes etc.)

Solemn= bright, festive, dressed up

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Missa brevis et. solemnis

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Short, but dressed up with winds, timpani, and brass

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Vespers

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Evening service- all music

5 psalms and Gloria Patri

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Mozart Requiem orchestration

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Expanded!

Included violas!!
More winds/brass
Forward looking

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The creation general notes

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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

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  • All strings, including Viola

- Legato playing indicated w/slur

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Billings general notes

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  • 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

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