Music Flashcards
Medieval Characteristics
Gregorian chant Based on modes
Relative notation of pitch
Beginning of harmony controlled by melody
Beginning of har,money controlled by melody
Renaissance
Moving toward major and minor tonality
Barque
Innovations of Barques music
Development of Orchestra
Sacred and secular music equally valued
Making of high-quality instruments begins.
Vivaldi
Baroque Concerto
Work for soloist and orchestra
Interplay and contrast between orchestra or tutti and solo parts through our entire piece.
Johann Sebastian Bach
Between Baroque and classical
Jesu Juva. Soli Deo Gloria
Composed for every genera except opera
Apus numbers were not yet used by composer and publishers.
Absolute Music
Wolfgang Schneider
Bach-Werke Verzeichnis give each work a BWV number
Subject
Opening theme , same in each chapter
Episode
A section where the subject in absent in all voices.
Subject
Start with subject
After an episode the voices in turn take the subject ,
Gregorian chants music basted on modes
Renaissance
Bagan moving towards major and minor tonality
System of notating rhythm developed
Polyphony of single liners sounded together
Use certain combinations of pitch’s especially at cadences, became standard
a musical composition for a solo instrument or instruments accompanied by an orchestra, especially one conceived on a relatively large scale.
Concerto
a contrapuntal composition in which a short melody or phrase (the subject) is introduced by one part and successively taken up by others and developed by interweaving the parts.
Fugue
Famous baroque
Antonio Vavladi