Lesson 2 Unit 2

Question 1

Historical Traces of Music

Answer 1

remains, writings, visual images, bone flute

Question 2

Ancient Greek ideal

Answer 2

Humanism - human kind is center of all things, surfs did not have joy

Question 3

Religious Music

Answer 3

Sacred

Question 4

Non-Religious Music

Answer 4

Secular

Question 5

Only music from dark ages

Answer 5

Plainchant

Question 6

Text Setting

Answer 6

How a composer takes words and makes music with it

Question 7

Syllabic

Answer 7

One note for each Syllable

Question 8

Melismatic

Answer 8

A lot of notes on one syllable

Question 9

Golden Age of Acapella

Answer 9

The renaissance

Question 10

Recitative

Answer 10

Speechlike melody

Question 11

Baroque Opera

Answer 11

Secular, Italian, staged, ARC, Florentine made it

Question 12

Baroque Cantata

Answer 12

Sacred lutheran, German, 5-7 mvts, ARC

Question 13

Baroque Oratorio

Answer 13

Sacred, English, Concert, ARC, Basso continuo

Question 14

Bach

Answer 14

German, Spent life in Germany, Organist, church director, no fame

Question 15

Handel

Answer 15

German, traveled, Italian opera, lots of fame

Question 16

Improvements to Instruments

Answer 16

Similar to modern day

Question 17

Virtuoso

Answer 17

Someone who plays really difficult music and is fast and flashy

Question 18

Organ

Answer 18

King of Instruments, Wind and Keyboard, pipes, stops

Question 19

Harpsichord

Answer 19

plucked strings, solo or accompemential, no cable of dynamic gradations

Question 20

Clavichord

Answer 20

capable of dynamic gradations, small sound for home use