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Music Appreciation (Quiz 2) Flashcards

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Secular music

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Music for nonreligious activities

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Sacred music

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Music for religious functions

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Medium

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Specific group that performs a piece

Orchestra
Chorus

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Oral transmission

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Music that is not written down but passed orally

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Gregorian chant

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Monophonic, non metric melodies

Early Christian church

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Three categories of chant melodies

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Syllabic, neumatic, melismatic

Based on how many notes are set to each syllable of the text

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Mass

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A daily service of the catholic church

Two categories of prayer
Proper
Ordinary

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Responsorial performance

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Alternating soloist and chorus

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Organum

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Earliest type of polyphony

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Motet

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Short piece of sacred choral music
Polyphonic
Unaccompanied

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Syllabic

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One note set to each syllable

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Neumaticq

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A few notes set to one syllable

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Melismatic

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Many notes set to one syllable

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Hildegard of bingen

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Sold to the church as a tithe

Raised by and as a recluse

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Alleluia, o Virga mediatrix

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Monophonic
Hildegard of bingen
Genre: Alleluia plainchant

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Oblique

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One voice is static and the other is moving

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Contrary motion

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The voices move in opposite directions

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Troubadours
Trouveres
Minnesingers

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Perform secular music in courts,

Wandering minstrels performed in cities

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Secular song text

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Idealized on love and values of chivalry

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Secular songs and dances

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Sung monophonically with instrumental accompaniment

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Sumer is incumen in

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Anonymous

Imitative

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Shawm

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Ancestor of the oboe

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Hammered dulcimer
Rebec
Vielle

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Bowed string instruments

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Sackbut

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Early trombone

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Tabor

Nakers

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Pope Marcellus mass, Gloria

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Palestrina
Monophonic then homorythmic with some polyphony
Genre: Gloria

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Two important secular genres

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Chanson

Madrigal

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Fair Phyllis

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Farmer

Genre: English madrigal

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Pavane

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Stately court dance

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Ronde

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Round dance

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Three dances

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Susato
Genre: ronde

Danserye

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Monody

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Solo song with instrumental accompaniment

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Basso continuo

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Bass part played by two instruments

Harpsichord and cello

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Figured bass

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Indicated what chord was required so the performer can improvise

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Equal temperament

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Tuning system

Uses mathematically pure intervals

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Castrato

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Male singer castrated at boyhood to preserve the soprano or alto register of his voice

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Opera

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Large scale music drama that combines poetry, acting, scenery, costumes, singing, and instrumental music

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Aria

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Lyrical song

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Recitatives

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Speech like declamations of the text

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Librettist

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Writes the text of the opera

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Overture

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Instrumental number heard at the beginning of most operas

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Sinfonias

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Instrumental interludes during an opera

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Libretto

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Text or script of the opera

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Masque

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Entertainment that combined vocal and instrumental music with poetry and dance

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Dido and aeneas

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Purcell

Genre: opera

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Horn pipe

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Dance form often associated with sailors

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Scotch snap

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Reverse dotted figure

Short long

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Ground bass

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A repeated phrase that descends along the chromatic scale

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Cantata

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Multimovement works with solo arias, recitives, and choruses and orchestral accompiment

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Chorale

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Hymn tune sung in four part harmony

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Oratorio

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Large scale dramatic genre
Solo voices, chorus, and orchestra
No staging or costumes

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Suite

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A group of dances usually in the same key

Dances are
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gigue
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Ritornello

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Reoccurring theme

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Solo concerto

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One instrument set against the orchestra

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Concerto grosso

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A group of instruments set against the orchestra

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