Exam 2 Flashcards
Pope Gregory
Gregorian chant
Chant
Plainchant, music of early Christian church
Melisma
Notes set to a single syllable
Troubadours
Poor musicians in southern France
Organum
Plain chant was decorated with one or more simultaneous interweaving musical
Hildegard of bingen
The daughter of a noble couple who promised her, as their 10th child, to service the church as a tithe
A Capella
Choral music performed without instrumental accompaniment
Motet
Single Latin text
Word painting
Musical pictorialization of words as an expressive device feature of Renaissance
Mass
Central service of the Roman Catholic Church
Council of Trent
Long meeting with the church
Opera
Music drama that is sung throughout
Libretto
Text and scripture of opera and musical
Aria
Lyric song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment, intense emotion, opera
Da capo aria
Lyric song in ternary, a-b-a opera
Recitative
Solo vocal declamation that focuses the inflections of the text, resulting in a distjunct vocal style
Overture
Introductory movement, as in a opera or oratorio orchestra work for concert performance
Church cantata
Of Johann Sebastian Bach were mostly written for the Lutheran church service
Oratorio
One of the great baroque sacred vocal forms, decended of the counter reformation