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Midterm 2 Flashcards

1
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Leonin and Perotin

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First two to write organm
(earliest form of polyphony)

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2
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Sacred music language

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Latin

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3
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Ars Nova

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New Art ( early 1300’s )

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4
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Polyphony began when?

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Late middle ages 1100’s and 1200’s

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5
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Troubadours

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Southern France traveled musicians

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6
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Trouveres

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Northern France

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7
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Plainchant/chant

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features monophonic non-melodic melodics

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8
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Lute

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String Chordophone (bas)

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9
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Recorder

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Aerophone (bas)

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10
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Ordinary mass 5 parts?

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Kyrie, Gloria, Crodo, Santas, Agnus Dei
church service catholic church

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11
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Motet

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Sacred Choral music

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12
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Madrigal

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Secular choral music

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13
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Word painting/madrigalisms

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Where music reflects its text

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14
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Chanson

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Secular French songs

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15
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Magnificat

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Mary finds out she will be giving birth to the child of god.

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16
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Baroque

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Distorted or misshapen

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17
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Florentine Camerata, when?

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Group of musicians (1600’s?) beginning of the Baroque period

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18
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Figured Bass / basso continuo

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F= numbers below lines/independent bag line
BC= chordo instruments

19
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Equal temperament

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New tuning system (bach)

20
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The well Tempered Klavier

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two volume keyboard collection
24 preludes

21
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Opera
Where did it began?

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New genre of of the baroque period
Italy

22
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Castrati

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Young boys who were castrated

23
Q

Virtuoso

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Plays technical Music

24
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Libretto

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Lyrics or text of an opera

25
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Recitative

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Principal components of opera speechlike declamation of text

26
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Henry Purcell

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English opera composer

27
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Church cantatas, who wrote?

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multi movement works (bach)

28
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Language of music in the Lutheran church?

29
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Oratorio/opera difference

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Oratorio’s were not staged or costumes

30
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Who invented the oratorio?

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George Fredric Handel

31
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Ritornello

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Repeated instrumental refrain

32
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De Capo aria

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lyric song ternary form (operas and cantatas)

33
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Messiah

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George Fredric handel english

34
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William Billings

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American composer who invented signing schools

35
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Anthem

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Congregational Singing

36
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The Art of Fugue

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Written by bach collection of fugues

37
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Fugue

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keyboard work in the baroque period.

38
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Instrumental Dance of suite

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Collection of dances put together
allemande, courante, sarabandi, jig, minuet, gavotte, bourree, passepied, hornpipe

39
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Harpsichord

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Strings are plucked by quills

40
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The four seasons?

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Antonio vivaldi virtuoso violinist

41
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Program music

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tells story about person or place

42
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Father of concerto

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Antonio vivaldi

43
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Concerto

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Genre peat, solo instrument or small group of soloists.

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