Lesson 2 Unit 2 Flashcards

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1
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Historical Traces of Music

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remains, writings, visual images, bone flute

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2
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Ancient Greek ideal

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

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3
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Religious Music

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Sacred

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4
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Non-Religious Music

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Secular

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5
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Only music from dark ages

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Plainchant

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6
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Text Setting

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How a composer takes words and makes music with it

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7
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Syllabic

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One note for each Syllable

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8
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Melismatic

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A lot of notes on one syllable

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9
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Golden Age of Acapella

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The renaissance

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10
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Recitative

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Speechlike melody

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Baroque Opera

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Secular, Italian, staged, ARC, Florentine made it

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12
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Baroque Cantata

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Sacred lutheran, German, 5-7 mvts, ARC

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13
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Baroque Oratorio

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Sacred, English, Concert, ARC, Basso continuo

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14
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Bach

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

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15
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Handel

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German, traveled, Italian opera, lots of fame

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16
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Improvements to Instruments

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Similar to modern day

17
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Virtuoso

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Someone who plays really difficult music and is fast and flashy

18
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Organ

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King of Instruments, Wind and Keyboard, pipes, stops

19
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Harpsichord

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

20
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Clavichord

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capable of dynamic gradations, small sound for home use