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Final Exam Review (MUSIC 5) Flashcards

1
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Sacred Music

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Religious

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Secular

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Earthier

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Different Musical Textures

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Monophonic
Monophonic w/ Accompaniment
Homophonic
Polyphonic

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Monophonic

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One sound

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5
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Monophonic w/ Accompaniment

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Solo voice with musical accompaniment

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Homophonic

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Same sounding

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Polyphonic

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Many sounding

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8
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Where can monophonic sounds be heard?

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In a chant

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What is the earliest known music?

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A chant

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10
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What languages were Gregorian Chants sung in?

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Latin

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11
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What are the musical characteristics of a Gregorian chant?

Texture and Sound

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Texture: Monophonic
Melismic

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Melisma

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One sound with many syllables

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13
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Motet

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Songs with words

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14
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What was music making seen as in the Romantic Period?

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A social activity

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15
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What are the characteristics of a lied?

Texture and Lyrics

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Texture: Solo Voice w/ Piano
Text from poem

Solo Voice or Monophonic w/ Accompaniment

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16
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A song cycle is an adjacent form of what song form?

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A suite

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17
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Who wrote Erlkonig?

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Franz Schubert

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18
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Who wrote Gonnaelaid?

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Fanny Mendelssohn

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19
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English Madrigal

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Dramatic ideas through song

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20
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What are the characteristics of a madrigal?

Texture and Sound

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Texture: a capella
Mixed voices (male and female)

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Expressionism

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Rejects beauty and embraces ugliness of people and emotions

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22
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Who figured out how to create pitch and rhythm?

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Leonin and Perotin

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23
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Cantus Firmus Chant

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Abandoned Gregorian Chant

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What are the characteristics of a sacred motet?

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Texture: Polyphonic
Delivers “the word”

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25
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Who created Ave Maria?

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Josquin Des Prez

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26
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What was Mozart’s Requiem Mass?

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A musical representation of the afterlife

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27
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Cantata

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A work for choir, solo vocalists, and orchestra whose texts, secular OR sacred, can come from a variety of sources

28
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How would Baroque Period operas be characterized?

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Mythological and Tragic

29
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Recitative

A

“Song Speech” - Pseudo-spoken
Sparsely accompanied

30
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Aria

A

Driving home the point
Accompanied by a full orchestra

31
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What are the similarities and differences between an opera and an oratorio?

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Similarities: Both have recitative and aria, Tell stories
Differences: Operas act stories out, Oratorio just tells a story

32
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What are some ways they dealt with needing sopranos but not allowing women in the art form?

A

The invention of Castrato Soprano

33
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How did Mozart evolve the art of opera?

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Mozart moved opera away from Greek tragedies and want ed to focus on comedies

34
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What are the two categories of opera?

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Opera Seria
Opera Buffa

35
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Opera Seria

A

Serious Opera

36
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Opera Buffa

A

Comedic Opera

37
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Trouser Role

A

Women portraying a young man

38
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Verismo

A

Truthful/Realistic Opera

39
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Who wrote the opera Carmen?

A

George Bizet

40
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Exoticism

A

What another culture might look like from the outside

41
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Who wrote La Boheme?

A

Giacomo Piuccini

42
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Leitmotif

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A recurrent musical idea, linked to a specific, character, location, or objects

43
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Ballet

A

Drama expressed through dance

44
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What are some ballets written by Tchaikovsky?

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The Nutcracker
Swan Lake
Sleeping Beauty

45
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What was the Ballet Russe?

A

A travelling ballet company

46
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What are some ballets written by Stravinsky?

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The Firebird
Petrouchka
The Rite of Spring

47
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What are some ballets written by Adam Copland?

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Rodeo
Billy the Kid
Applachian Spring

48
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Who choreograpghed Appalachian Spring?

A

Martha Graham

49
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What are the three forms of Program Music?

A

Symphonic Sound Poem/Tone Poem
Program Suite - Symphonic Suite
Program Symphony - Concert Overture

50
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When was Program Music at the height of its popularity?

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The Romantic Period

51
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Who wrote Pictures at an Exhibition?

A

Modest Mussorgsky

52
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Fixed Idea or Idee Fixe

A

Unifies 5 movements

53
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What opera is used in “An Episode in the Life of an Artist”?

Bonus: Who was it written by?

A

Dies Irae

Hector Berlioz

54
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Symphonic or Tone Poem

A

Single movement work intended to represent a story, drama, or concept sound

55
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Who wrote Scherezade?

A

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

56
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Who wrote The Pines of Rome?

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Ottorino Repighi

57
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Who wrote an American in Paris?

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George Gershwin

58
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Who wrote the Grand Canyon Suite?

A

Ferde Grofe

59
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What does the movement Cloudburst in the Grand Canyon Suite represent?

A

A storm rolling through

60
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Who wrote The Planets?

A

Gustav Holst

61
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Who wrote the Metropolis Symphony?

A

Michael Daughtery

62
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What is the Metropolis Symphony about?

A

Superman

63
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What is the purpose of film music?

A

Heighten emotion
Support the Story
Establish setting/period

64
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What can a Main Title Sequence capture?

A

Frame and Foreshadowing
Sets tone for movie

Overature Equivalent

65
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What can an End Credits Sequence capture?

A

Movie Review

Medley or Symphonic Suite

66
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Underscore music

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Intended for audience to heighten experience

67
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Source music

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Experienced by characters on screen part of the action

Eg. Radios, Bands, Club

Some source music could phase into underscore music in many different movies like biopics

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