Music Appreciation Flashcards
The rhythm of Behold Spring falls into consistent units of how many beats?
3
Hildegard’s play of virtues is
A dramatized allegory of good & evil
What is the meter of Landini’s “Behold Spring”
Triple
A 12th Century cleric name Perotin, who worked @ the Cathedral of Notre Dame, wrote long & detailed works w/the first harmonies, known as
organum
In which Cathedral did Josquin spend several years working?
St Peter’s Cathedral in Rome
From where did Awake, a voice Calls to us derive its name & Primary melody
A choral tune
Which is the following ideas does the text of “The Cricket” explore?
Love Songs
Josquin’s music makes the meaning of a text
more vivid & memorable
What instrument are included in the performance of Moorish Dance
Woodwinds, brass. & percussion
The first & final movements of Bach’s cantata 140 are unified by using a common
Chorale Melody
The meter in dance music correspond to the pattern of
Dance steps
The Renaissance was an age of growing confidence in
The powers of human reason & individuality
The “Hallelujah” chorus features which textures
Monophony, Homophony, Polyphony
Which movement represents the Catholic Church’s response to Protestantism
The Counter-Reformation
What did the council of Trent seek to remove from musical settings of the mass
Secular musical influences
Composers like JaCopo de Bologna, Bernart de Ventadom, & Oswald Von Wolkenstein share w/Machaut a Strong interest in
Courtly Love
By the end of her life Barbara Strozzi had published ___ volumes of music
8
In Dido & Aeneas, Belinda & Dido converse in a vocal style that is partway between speech & singing
Recitative
Monophony occurs when
all instruments play the same notes together in unisom
which of the following is a Baroque Composer who wrote in the Concerto genre
Arcangello Corelli
Which timbres are heard in the solo sections for the finale of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertto #2
trumpet & recorder
In which city was Bach employed
Leipzig
Purcell moves the plot of Dido & Aeneas forward through a series of brief, self contained units known as
numbers
A genre of chamber music cultivated w/special intensity by Baroque composers was the
sonata
The English Madrigal
was directly indepted to the Italian Madrigal
The form of “The Talking Sheep” consists of the repitition of how many melodic units
2
Which musical genres was Bach known to compose
Orchestral works & cantatas
Landini is belived to have written 150 ____
songs which represent about 1/3 of all Italian music
Secular
“Since Robin Hood” is a
Madrigal
Josquin’s “The Cricket” uses what kind of form
Ternary
An Anthem is an example of
a Capella Choral music
What type of musical deice is used to graphically set words like “skip” & “Drip”
word painting
which formal device is used by Bach in the 1st movement of Cantata 140
ritornello principal
Vivaldi was known as the
Red Priest
A musical setting in which each syllable receives its own note
syllabic
The intense spirituality of The Renaissance
gave rise to some of the most moving sacred music ever
Type of chant involves a chorus responding to a solo singer
Responsorial
In the 2nd section of “Since Robin Hood” which meter does the music shift to in order to accomodate the trochaic meter of the poetry
Triple
Handel wrote Italian operas that used ____ area whose form means “from the top”
da capo
How many independent voices in “Since Robin Hood”
3
Josqin des Prez was a
International Celebrity in his time
Which Sons of J.S. Brach were composers
Johann Christian Bach & Carl Philip Emanuel Bach
William Byrd was a
Catholic who wrote Protestant music for the English Monarch
Which portion of the Alleulia text remains the same through out the year
Alleulia
The effect of the drone bass is like what medieval Instrument
bagpipe
What is the form of “No More than one Man Could Count the Stars”
AAB
Which of the following is a character in Hildegard’s play of Virtues
Humility
What was the topic of satire & jest surrounding Barbara Strozzi
Her Chastity
Claudio Monteverdi’s bridged the _____ & Baroque Era
Renaissance
Because of the size, power, & timbral variety, the organ is sometimes called the
King of Instruments
Where was the drum part for “He who Gladly Serves” notated
nowhere
In addition composing music Hildegard
experienced visions & directed the life of a thriving convent
In Baroque art & music, artists tried to express a single emotion, known as
affect
Music was already the _____ in the middle ages, long before Shakespeare coined the phrase
Food of Love
During the Baroque era, all concertos were built around the
ritornello principal
The difference between Bach’s original Fugue in G minor & Leopold Stokowki’s arrangement of the same place for orchestra is one of
timbre
William Byrd worked for Queen Elizabeth I of England, who was a
protestant
What is a name for a brief pattern in the bass line that is repeated throughout the enter number
ostinato
The recitative section of “He Dwelleth in Heaven” is accompanied only by
basso Continuo
Which assembly was responsible for crafting the Catholic Church’s reaction to the Protestant Reformation
The Council of Trent
During the Baroque Era
Churches spent large sums of money on lavish decorations & powerful organs
In a fugue, the passages were the main subject (the main theme) is absent are called
episodes
Baroque composers wrote music for services of different faiths
Catholic, Lutheran & Angelican
Beethoven’s Wellington’s Victory & Berlioz’s fantastique are both examples of
program music
William Byrd’s “Sing Joyfully” is notable for its
word painting
G F Handel
composed opera & Oratorio
From where does Palestrina’s name come
the town near Rome where he was born
The text for Alleluia of the feast of Corpus Christi is drawn from the
Gospel of John
Which of the following is a physiological effect of plainchant
lower blood pressure
In “ No more than One Man Could Count the Stars” cadences are identified in the music by a
point of arrival
The chorale melody of “Awake, a voice Calls to us” appears in which sections of the finale of Bach’s Cantata 140
the chorale section
Which is the best way to describe the recitative style of “He that Dwelleth in Heaven
Choral
Who sings the part of the “Caro Mea Alleluia that includes biblical verses
soloist
late 6th century Venetian Composer wrote a large amount of Brass Music
Giovanni Gabrielli
Monteverdi spent the last 3 decades of his life working @
St Mark’s Basilica in Venice
The more lyrical numbers in opera that convey deeper feelings are called
arias
The Renaissance maybe described as
an age of the “rebirth” of arts & sciences from antiquity
Female composer of the Middle Ages
Hildegard of Bingen
Bach had ___ children
20
Although there is a choir, the texture of the “Caro Mea” is monophonic because they sing in
unison
How many Structural cadences occur in “No More than one Man could Count the Stars”
6
In Hildegard’s Play of Virtues, Satan
shouts his lines
How many soloists are in a Baroque number
no fixed number
Byrd creates a sectional from in “Sing Joyfully” by giving each line of the text its own
melodic idea
Counter point is an ____ that is still taught in almost exactly the same manner as it was in the Renaissance
demanding art
Which genre of music did Bach compose for the weekly Lutheran service
Cantata
The Middle Ages was known as the age of
Courtly Love
The 2 Subfamlies of reed instruments are
double and single
In Baroque opera the group of instruments that always accompanies a singer is
basso continuo
In “no More than One Man Could Count the Stars” the section B is ____ than the A section
longer
The longest pipes of an organ can be up to ___ feet high to produce the lowest notes
16
Which texture does Handel use in “Hallelujah” chorus
Monophony
The Drone Bass beneath a melody is what texture
homophony
The texture of Gregorian Chant is
monophonic
What is the name for the equal-voice texture that results from Renaissance counter point
polyphony
Texture of “No more than One Man Could Count the Stars”
Polyphonic
musical texture during Orpheus’s recitative in “Tu Se morta”
homophonic
What is the word for a poem’s basic rhythmic unit
meter
Which timbres are used to emphasize the regal nature of the “king of King’s text in the “hallelujah” chorus
Trumpet & Timpani
In William Byrd’s “Sing Joyfully,” each voice is differentiated by its
range
What does an elided cadence omit?
textual reputition
