Listening to Music Quiz 3

Question 1

Non-concert eras

Answer 1

medieval: 450-1450
Renaissance: 1450-1600

Question 2

Concert Music eras

Answer 2

Baroque: 1600-1750
Classical: 1750-1820
Romantic: 1820-1900
Modern: 1900-1970
Post-Modern: 1970-

Question 3

Medieval music

Answer 3

"Gregorian" Chant (plain song)
monophonic
no accompaniment
all in Latin
polyphony: many sounds
-organum

Question 4

Leonin

Answer 4

composer at Notre Dame
added more lines to the top
florid organum - stretched out underlying notes underneath
viderunt omnes

Question 5

Perotin

Answer 5

Leonin’s successor

music sounds happy - 12/8 time

Question 6

5 parts of every ordinary mass (opposed to proper)

Answer 6

kyrie
gloria
credo
sanctus
Angus Dei

Question 7

secular music in the Middle Ages

Answer 7

minstrels

-acted as servants as well as musicians/poets

Question 8

meistersingers

Answer 8

union for musicians
three levels
-apprentice
-journeyman
-master

Question 9

Renaissance

Answer 9

turning away from the church toward “secular” world of art and science
court composers arise

Question 10

Madrigal

-word painting

Answer 10

Form of music during the renaissance
piece written for small group
word painting
-idea that the music can express the words in a direct way

Question 11

Renaissance composers

Answer 11

Josquin DesPrez
Carlo Gesualdo
-interesting
Palestrina (1525-1594)
-foremost counter-reformation composer
-smooth and consonant

Question 12

Baroque (1600-1750)

Answer 12

Language change from Latin to the vernacular
highly ornamented music
means “misshapen pearl”

Question 13

2 big baroque ideas

Answer 13

specific instrumentation

accompaniment - “continuo”

Question 14

concertato style

Answer 14

brings contrasting groups together

-beginning form of an orchestra

Question 15

trio sonata

Answer 15

written for 2 solo instruments and continuo

Question 16

baroque opera

Answer 16

libretto - the text of a dramatic musical work
soloists
-castrati
-bel canto - beautiful singing
–lilting flow of melody that contained high ornamentation and improvisation

Question 17

oratorio

Answer 17

church stories set to music
not staged
no acting
in the vernacular
George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)

Question 18

cantata

Answer 18

like oratorio but secular

Question 19

J.S. Bach

Answer 19

1685-1750

Question 20

Well-Tempered Clavier

Answer 20

wrote pieces in all 24 keys to show the function of the new scale and tuning system

Question 21

instrumental music

Answer 21

keyboard - harpsichord, organ
-main forms of expression were prelude and fugue
-dance (French) suites - 5 different dances based off of dance steps
concerto
-harpsichord and string orchestra accompanying a string orchestra

Question 22

concerto grosso

Answer 22

soloists and accompaniment go back and forth
tutti - together
ripieno - the full orchestra

Question 23

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Answer 23

wrote mostly concertos

The Four Seasons