Listening Quiz I List

During what years did the Renaissance period take place?

ca. 1410-1590

During what years did the Early Baroque period take place?

ca. 1590-1640

During what years did the Baroque period take place?

ca. 1640-1750

Guillaume Dufay (1397-1474)
Ave Maris Stella
(Period, Genre, Type, Style, Texture, Meter, Key, Harmonic System, Timbre and Color?)

Period: Early Renaissance Period

Genre: Hymn

Type: Liturgical Vocal

Style: paraphrase, plainchant and homophonic

Texture: 4 voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass)

Meter: simple triple meter

Key: minor

Harmonic system: modal system

Timbre and Color: the concept of equality and standardization of the 'modern' 4 voices

Josquin Desprez (1450-1521)
Mille Regretz
(Period, Genre, Type, Style, Texture, Meter, Harmonic System, Timbre and Color?)

Period: Middle Renaissance Period

Genre: Chanson (French song)

Type: Secular Vocal

Style: homophonic and imitative

Texture: 4 voices (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass), perfection of polyphonic texture

Meter: simple duple meter

Harmonic System: modal system

Timbre and Color: concept equality and standardization of voices

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
'Gloria' from Missa Papae Marcelli
(Period, Genre, Type, Style, Texture, Meter, Harmonic System, Timbre and Color?)

Period: Late Renaissance Period (1592)

Genre: Section of a Mass

Type: Liturgical Vocal

Style: homophonic

Texture: 6 vocal parts are divided into two choirs

Meter: simple duple meter

Harmonic System: modal system

Timbre and Color: Voice

Extra Notes:
- concept of clarity of expression of the liturgical text

Luca Marenzio (1553-1599)
Solo e pensoso (from the 9th book of Madrigals)
(Period, Genre, Type, Style, Texture, Meter, Harmonic System, Timbre and Color?)

Period: Late Renaissance Period (1599)

Genre: Madrigal

Type: Secular Vocal

Style: homophonic, imitative counterpoint, and chromaticism

Texture: 4 voices (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) plus 1 added voice (tenor)

Meter: simple duple meter

Harmonic System: modal system

Timbre and Color: Voice

Extra Notes:
- concept of 'word painting'

Giovanni Gabrieli (1557-1612)
O Magnum Mysterium

(Period, Genre, Type, Style, Texture, Meter, Harmonic System, Timbre and Color?)

Period: Early Baroque Period (1587)

Genre: Motet

Type: Liturgical Vocal and Instrumental

Style: homophonic with solo vocal sections

Texture: 2 choirs (each with 3 vocal and four instrumental parts)

Meter: triple and duple meters

Harmonic System: modal system

Timbre and Color: Voice and brass instruments

Extra Notes:
- concept of sonic experimentation

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Cruda Amarilli (from the 5th book of Madrigals)
(Period, Genre, Type, Style, Texture, Meter, Harmonic System, Timbre and Color?)

Period: Early Baroque Period (1605)

Genre: Madrigal

Type: Secular vocal

Texture: 5 voices (soprano, alto, tenor, bass plus Quinto)

Harmonic System: modal system

Meter: quadruple meter

Timbre and Color: Voice and instruments

Extra Notes:
- concept of dissonances
- accent on the weak beat of the bar to delay resolution on the 'tonic'

Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa (1566-1613)
Io moro, lasso (from the 6th book of Madrigals)
(Period, Genre, Type, Style, Texture, Meter, Harmonic System, Timbre and Color?)

Period: Early baroque period (1611)

Genre: madrigal

Type: secular vocal

Texture: 5 voices

Style: imitative counterpoint and homophonic style

Harmonic System: modal/tonal system

Meter: simple quadruple meter

Timbre and Color: Voice

Extra Notes:
-concept of 'word painting' and theory of affection
-harsh dissonances

Giuseppino del Biado (d. ca. 1612)
Il ballo di Mantova
(Period, Genre, Type, Style, Texture, Form, Meter, Key, Harmonic System, Timbre and Color?)

Period: Early baroque period (ca.1600)

Genre: Italian Song (dance)

Type: Secular instrumental

Texture: single or multiple voices and instruments

Form: strophic form and simple text

Harmonic System: tonal system

Key: minor

Meter: simple quadruple meter

Timbre and Colour: recorder, lutes, percussions etc and voice

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
Lamento della ninfa (from the 8th Book of Madrigals)
(Period, Genre, Type, Style, Texture, Technique, Form, Meter, Key, Harmonic System, Timbre and Color?)

Period: Early baroque period (published 1638, composed between 1620-1630)

Genre: Madrigal

Type: Secular Vocal and Instrumental

Form: Da Capo (A B A') musical form

Texture: 4 voices, major soprano line plus 3 accompanying voices (Tenor 1, Tenor 2 and Bass)

Technique: continuous bass, obstinate bass

Harmonic System: modal/tonal system

Key: minor

Meter: simple triple meter

Color and Timbre: Voice

Extra Notes:
- concept of 'word painting' and theory of affection

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Dido's Lament (from the Opera 'Dido and Aeneas')
(Period, Genre, Type, Form, Style, Texture, Technique, Meter, Key, Harmonic System, Timbre and Color?)

Period: Middle Baroque (1689)

Genre: Opera Seria

Type: Secular Vocal and Instrumental

Form: Aria

Style: Recitative

Technique: continuous base

Texture: Alto voice with continuous bass (Recitative), Alto voice with orchestra (Aria)

Harmonic system: tonal system

Key: minor key

Meter: simple quadruple meter (Recitative) and simple triple meter (Aria)

George Frederic Händel (1685-1759)
Mia cara sposa (from the Opera 'Rinaldo')
(Period, Genre, Type, Form, Style, Texture, Technique, Meter, Key, Harmonic System, Timbre and Color?)

Period: Middle Baroque (1711)

Genre: Opera Seria

Type: Secular Vocal and Instrumental

Form: De Capo (A B A') Aria

Texture: voice (Castrato/Countertenor) with orchestra

Technique: Continuous and obstinate bass

Harmonic System: tonal

Key: major

Meter: simple triple meter

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Spring (first movement from the 'Four Seasons')
(Period, Genre, Type, Form, Style, Texture, Technique, Meter, Key, Harmonic System, Timbre and Color?)

Period: Middle Baroque (1718)

Genre: Concerto

Type: Secular Instrumental

Form: solo, ritornello

Technique: continuous bass

Texture: violin with orchestra

Meter: Simple duple meter

Key: Major

Harmonic system: tonal

Timbre and Color: Violin