Lesson 2 Unit 2 Flashcards
Historical Traces of Music
remains, writings, visual images, bone flute
Ancient Greek ideal
Humanism - human kind is center of all things, surfs did not have joy
Religious Music
Sacred
Non-Religious Music
Secular
Only music from dark ages
Plainchant
Text Setting
How a composer takes words and makes music with it
Syllabic
One note for each Syllable
Melismatic
A lot of notes on one syllable
Golden Age of Acapella
The renaissance
Recitative
Speechlike melody
Baroque Opera
Secular, Italian, staged, ARC, Florentine made it
Baroque Cantata
Sacred lutheran, German, 5-7 mvts, ARC
Baroque Oratorio
Sacred, English, Concert, ARC, Basso continuo
Bach
German, Spent life in Germany, Organist, church director, no fame
Handel
German, traveled, Italian opera, lots of fame