Exam 2 Flashcards
The most important of the council of Trent (counter reformation) toward music pertained to…
Textual intelligibility and lasciviousness in sacred music
(No secular music in church(
First all female vocal ensemble
The concerto delle-Donne
Composition for an individual vocal line with a companionment
Monody
The first operas were produced and performed in
Florence at the Medici court (at the turn of the seventeenth century)
Musical sections between acts
The intermedi
Style half-way between speaking and singing
The stile reppresantivo
Venice in 1637
First public opera theatre
Composing for two or more choirs that were separated
Cori spezzati
Most influential composer of keyboard music in the early 17th century
Frescobaldi
Strictly religious opera
The oratorio
ABA
Da capo aria
4 movements
The corellian sonata
3 movements
The concerto grosso
Section near the end of concerto which was improvised
Cadenza
Main theme that returns again and again, but alternates with episodes
Ritornello form
French serious opera
Tragedie lyrique
Purcell
Dido and Aenas
Fugue by J.S. Bach
Subject
Exposition
Counter-subject
Episode
City that J.S. Bach lived and worked from 1773 until his death in 1750
Leipzig
What does the term classical refer to?
Desire to emulate the works of Ancient Greeks and Romans
The main patron of the arts during the classical period was
The aristocracy
Major musical center during the 18th century
Vienna
Italian comic opera
Opera buffa
II Barbiere de Siviglia and La Serva padrona by…
Pasiello and Pergolesi
By the late 18th century the standard structure of a symphony was
4 movements within the 1st sonata form
Which composer gave the most significant contribution to the early development of string quartet
Haydn
Invented around the beginning of the 18th century, by crsitofori
Pianoforte
Full or companionment
Rcitativo obligato
Simple and tuneful melodies
Opera buffa
Quarrell between supporters of French and Italian opera
Quenelles de bouffons
Example of English comic opera (ballad opera)
John Gay’s the beggar’s opera
Recitatives and arias
Opera seria
In his preface to Alceste..
Gluck condemned singers for excessive ornamentations
1st movement of mozart’s symphony no. 40 in G minor, k.550
Sonata form
3 main sections of sonata form:
Exposition
Development
Recapitulation
In sonata form the development is usually characterized by
Unstable harmonies and frequent modulation a
Minuet form
A(ab) B(cd) A(ab)
Rondo form
ABACA
Sonata form ternary
ABA
First to regularly compose 4 movement symphonies
Stamitz
Hayden early career was in
Vienna at the Esterhazy court
“Don Giovanni”
“Le mezze di figaro”
“Cosi fan tutte”
are Mozart’s operas based on
Libretto by Lorenzo de Ponte
German term for comic opera
The singspiel
Mozart’s requiem mass was completed by
Franz Xavier Sussmayr
Beethoven composed…
9 symphonies
Poetic text for voice and piano companionment
German lied
Music that depicts a story
Program music
An important center for music during the nineteenth century
Paris
Main idea behind “absolute music” (German school) is…
Music has no literacy or pictorial associations
Predominant composition in Lutheran music.
The chorale
