Exploring Music Quiz 2 Review Flashcards
Syllabic
1 note per syllable of text (i.e. star spangled banner)
Madrigalism (word painting)
A musical setting of a text in a single strophe (stanza)
Word painting
Music that imitates, describes, or conjures images of the text being sung
Liturgy
a pattern of prayer or worship
a cappella
without instrumental accompaniment
Gregorian chant (plainchant)
Monophonic vocal music in the medieval church, designed to project religious texts
Humanism
An early-Renaissance intellectual and cultural movement that explored human interests and values through the pursuit of science, philosophy, literature, painting, sculpture, and music, particularly vocal music
The Medieval Era (450-1420)
- Monophonic, anonymous, and unaccompanied melodies called plainchant or Gregorian chant
- Meant to teach
- courtly love, heroism, pastoral living, and even explicit texts
Jacques Arcadelt (1507-1568)
Belgium-born, renaissance-era composer of Italian madrigals, including “Il bianco e colce cigno” (The white swan poem)
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)
- Composed play of virtues
- female medieval composer
- adds leaps for dramatic effect
The Play of Virtues (Ordo Virtutum)
- morality plays feature virtues personified as characters in a dramatized struggle of good vs. evil
- The devil has spoken parts
- In latin
- Non-metrical
-Monophonic
Melismatic
many notes per syllable of text (Glo-ria)
Form of “Behold Spring”
- Complete form: A-B-A-A
- Verse 1 : Music A; statement
- Verse 2: Music B; contrast
- Verse 3: Music A; variation
- Verse 4: Music A; repetition
Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300-1377)
- French court musician who wrote both secular and sacred music
-helped shape the ars nova and demonstrated an unusual level of creative ownership for the period
- one of the first Western artists to discuss his work and methods and one of the first composers to collect and preserve his own music
Ars Nova
a French movement of the early 1300s that introduced new complexities of rhythm, meter, and harmony into music
Form of “I Can All Too Well Compare My Lady”
- Complete Form: A-A-B
- In French
- Three-voice polyphony
“The Talking Sheep” by Alfonso el Sabio
- Complete form: A-A-A-A-B-A-A-B-B-A-A
- primary instrument is the shawm (3 in the song)
- Largely Homophonic with drone bass underneath
The Renaissance (1425-1600)
- system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters
- Renaissance cultural movement that turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought
- God AND us
“The Cricket” by Josquin des Prez
- Complete form: A-B-A
- Word painting with long notes on longo verso (“long line” or “long noise”).
- Polyphonic (four equal voices)
“Since Robin Hood” By Thomas Weelkes
- Polyphonic (3 voices)
- Iambic (short-Long)
- In English
