Listening Exercise

Question 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2WMhaogDsI&t=1s

Answer 1

Title: In pardisum
Composer: N/A (church mass???)
Genre: Gregorian Chant
Era: Medieval
Special features: Monophonic, latin text, church mass

Question 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2WMhaogDsI&t=1s

Answer 2

Title: In paradisum
Composer: N/A (church mass??)
Genre: Gregorian Chant
Era: Medieval
Special features: Monophonic, sung in Latin text, church mass

Question 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glbYiXAwOWk&t=7s

Answer 3

Title: Jubilemus Exultemus
Composer: Francois Coupin II
Genre: Organum (Florid Organum)
Era: Medieval
Special Features: Polyphonic (earliest form), added on top of organum

Question 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX7-r-12f5I

Answer 4

Title: La Dousa Vota
Composer: Bernad de Ventadorn
Genre: Chanson
Era: Medieval
Special feature: love song, secular, troubadour singing

Question 5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXMZoKofu7g&t=11s

Answer 5

Title: Ave Maria
Composer: Josquin des Prez
Genre: Motet
Era: Renaissance
Special features: Imitation, Polyphonic, A capella

Question 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdZ_7dFbl1A&t=1s

Answer 6

Title: Kyrie, Pope Marcellus Mass
Composer: Palestrina
Genre: Mass Ordinary
Era: Renaissance
Special features: Church, polyphonic, A capella, imitation

Question 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95DJ7oqTWK8&t=2s

Answer 7

Title: As Vesta was Descending
Composer Thomas Weelkes
Genre: Madrigal
Era: Renaissance
Special features: Word painting (sounds like run up and down a hill), polyphonic, imitation, 4 voice parts

Question 8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Wo-3DtI34&t=483s

Answer 8

Title: Tu Sei Morta, Orfeo
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Genre: Opera
Era: Baroque
Special features: Recitative

Question 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou8A0g_jYyA&t=69s

Answer 9

Title: “When I am laid in Earth”, Dido and Aeneas
Composer: Henry Purcell
Genre: Opera
Era: Baroque
Special features: Aria

Question 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZib08sHrwE

Answer 10

Title: Rondeau form Suite des Symphonies
Composer: Jean-Jospeh Mouret
Genre: Dance suite
Era: Baroque
Special features: Rondo form (repeats of patterns ABACA)

Question 11

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzE-kVadtNw&t=4s

Answer 11

Title: The Four Season (Spring Concerto)
Composer Antonio Vivaldi
Genre: Program music
Era: Baroque
Special features: Soloist Concerto, Ritornello form

Question 12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJyTfttQvdA&t=298s

Answer 12

Title: Suite from Water Music
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Genre: Baroque Orchestra
Era: Baroque
Special features: small orchestra

Question 13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weFJHtcxJt0

Answer 13

Title: Hallelujah from Messiah
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Genre: Oratorio
Era: Baroque
Special: Polyphonic, sacred, Oratorio

Question 14

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHjbRMIIhuM&t=7s

Answer 14

Title: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
Composer: Johann Sebastion Bach
Genre: Concerto Grosso
Era: Baroque
Special: harpsichord, violin, flutes, Cadenza from harpsichord

Question 15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddbxFi3-UO4&t=4s

Answer 15

Title: Organ Fugue G Minor (Little Fugue)
Composer: Johann Sebastion Bach
Genre: Fugue
Era: Baroque
Special: Organ played, imitation