music and arts ☆ Flashcards
What is Tocatta?
A composition for keyboard instruments.
Adam de la Halle is also known as?
“Adam le Bossu,” “Adam the Hunchback,” “le Bossu d’Arras” and “Adam d’Arras,”
Known as the “Golden Age of Polyphony”, “Golden Age of Acapella”
Renaissance Period
Know as the “Greatest Composer of Liturgical Music”
Giovani Pierluigi da Palestrina
Guillaume Dufay (Gee·owm Doo·fay)
Earliest composer of the Burgundian School.
Composed or performed for religious use
Sacred Music
Non-religious music
Secular Music
Written for a small group of solo instruments. Suitable for small hall or a room.
Chamber
What is a Ballade?
A narrative song without words.
Created “idée fixe”
Berloiz
A single melody that reappears in movement after movement, in a total of 8 times during the symphony.
“idée fixe” (fixed idea)
A CAVE OF LE TUC D’ AUDOUBERT, ARIEGE, FRANCE
Bison reliefs C.A 15,000-10,000 BCE
Three Periods of the Stone Age
Paleolithic or Old Stone Age:
Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age
Neolithic or New Stone Age
Three types of Megalith
Menhir – standing VERTICALLY
Dolmen – forms a TABLE
Cromlech - CIRCLE of standing stones
- are produced by the converted Barbarians, consisted of TWISTING AND TURNING LINES.
Medieval or Illuminated Manuscript
