music appreciation test 2

Time period for Middle Ages

14th-15th century

Music most likely to be written down in middle ages

Religious/sacred

Long ceremony in cathedrals

Mass

Single line melodies of church

Plainchant

NOT a characteristic of chant

Meter

How to determine harmonies and notes played in chant

Medieval notes

Medieval southern composers

Troubadours

Earliest type of polyphonic music

Organum

What happened to polyphonic music during 13th century

They started to be removed from services because of the reformation and schisms

One universal feature from music is present where

Role of its service in the church and religion

Short simple tune sung through many stanzas of text

Hymn

Most important service in Christian liturgy

The mass

Not a divided mass movement

Cantus

Two blended techniques in renaissance music

Imitated counterpoint & homophonic music

High renaissance composers wanted to use polyphonic music to create what?

Homophonic texture

By the end of the renaissance, composers wanted their compositions to be more what?

The lyrics/words

Using rhythms that mimic the way we talk

Declamation

Technique used to depict music in words or ideas of text

Word painting

Instrumental music heard in renaissance

Courts

Difference between English and Italian Madrigal

One is in English and one is in Italian

Pavon and Galliard are examples of what?

Renaissance dance music

Who wrote O Magnum Mysterium

Giovanni Gabrieli

Instruments played in Magnum Mysterium

Choir, String, Brass, and Organ

What is Monteverdi Orfeo

Opera

Where is opera from

Italy

What did music become in baroque

Systematic & controlled

Baroque time period

1600-1750

What appeared in music during baroque period

Bar lines

What is Baso Continuo

Baseline of a baroque composition

Music that has a repeated base figure

Ground base

Drama music in the form of a large production

Opera

Operatic equivalent of dramatic dialogue

Recitative

Rhythms followed in recitative

Rhythm of speech

Aria in opera

Extended piece for a solo singer

First great opera singer

Claudio Monteverdi

Composition based on imitation

Fugue