Test 3 Flashcards
2 types of music being composed (one type for religious needs, one for everything else)
Sacred
Secular
Early music during the medieval time was being written by ______ in monasteries and _____ in convents.
Monks
Nuns
3 social classes during the middles ages were:
Nobles
Peasants
Clergy
The Roman Catholic Church, including the music portion, was reorganized under Pope ______
Gregory
______ was a nun, theorist, mystic, diplomat, wrote many of theses on different topics, and is the first recognized composer of plainchant.
Hildegard of Bingen
The Middle Ages existed roughly between the years ______ and ______.
450-1450
The beginning of the Middle Ages started after the fall of the ______ and ended with the invention of the _____.
Roman Empire
Printing press
_______ performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares.
Minstrels
The first polyphony was created by monks adding a second line Parallel to the primary line in a piece of music. Gregorian chant with one or more additional melodic lines is called ______.
Organum
In 1150, this city became the center of polyphonic music: ______
Paris
The two composers at the heart of the School of Notre Dame were _____ and ______.
Perotin
Leonin
Ars Nova music, is written in France and Italy during the __ th century, was polyphonic and included the use of _________, rhythms that are off the beat and would also be used in Dixieland and ragtime in the 19th century.
14
Syncopation
_________ (Italian) and _________ (Frenchman) were the two most famous Ars Nova composers.
Francisco Landini
Guillaume de Machaut
______ was the first person to put five prayers/section of the mass ordinary to music.
Machaut
The five basic sections of the mass ordinary are:
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Angus Dei
The renaissance is known as the age of ______
Rebirth
The Catholic Church was far less powerful during the renaissance partially because of the movement know as ________ led my Martin Luther
Reformation
The invention of the _______ allowed for books and music to be copied and distributed throughout Europe
Printing press
Renaissance composers often used a musical representation of specific poetic images known as
Word painting
The texture of renaissance music was chiefly ________
Polyphonic
Renaissance vocal music did not need accompaniment and was sung
A cappella
The renaissance ______ is a polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary mass.
Motet
The renaissance ______ is a polyphonic choral composition made up of five sections.
Mass
The five sections of the mass are
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Angus Dei
Which voice of the vocal choir came into fruition during the renaissance?
Tenor
An important kind of secular vocal music during the renaissance was the ________, piece of music for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
madrigal
A simpler type of secular music than the madrigal is the song for the solo voices and _____
Lute
Renaissance lute songs are primarily _________ in texture.
Homophonic
Instrumental music became more popular and independent during the renaissance. Some popular instruments during this period were:
Lute
Viola de Gambla
Harpsichord
Recorder
The two composers at the heart of the Venetian School were ________ and _________ who were also uncle and nephew to each other.
Andrea Gabrieli
Giovanni Gabrieli
Venetian composers were inspired by an architectural feature of the church called, which had two choir lofts, each with its own organ.
St. Marks Cathedral
The baroque period was known as the age of ______
Absolutism
The word baroque means _______
Bizarre
Which two textures were featured during the barque period
Homophonic
Polyphonic
The bulk of music we hear from the barque period comes from which stage? Early, middle, or late?
Late
Dynamics during he baroque period were not gradual, in part because of the keyboard instruments could only play loud or soft and nothing in between. What’s the term for dynamics that shift drastically?
Terraced dynamics
During the barque period the demand was for old music (renaissance and medieval to be performed) true or false
False
Name four genres that were being composed during the barque period and the composers who were writing them
Opera - Monteverdi/Purcell
Oratorio - George Handel
Concerto - Antonio Vivaldi
Fugue - J.S. Bach
What’s the difference between an opera and an oratorio
Oratorio has no dancing or acting
What musical ensemble finally took shape during the barque period and dominated the musical scene during this period?
The orchestra
What’s the difference between an aria and a recitative
Aria is a homophonic piece
Recititive is a speech like delivery on beat
Name 2 baroque opera composers
Monteverdi
Handel
Difference between concerto and concerto grosso
Concerto grosso is a group of soloists
Concerto is one soloist
What Italian composer wrote over 450 concertos
Antonio Vivaldi
The four seasons is an instrumental piece that tells a story. What is the term for instrumental music that tells a story or describes a scene mood etc
Programmatic
What instrument did J.S. Bach play
Organ and harpsichord
