Unit 2 Music Appreciation

The Middle Ages or Medieval Era covers what time period?

Ended around 14 th/15th century

What type of music in the Middle Ages was most likely to be written down or

preserved?

Sacred/religious music

A long ceremony that might happen more than once a day in cathedrals?

Mass

The single line melodies of the early Christian church music are known as what?

Plain chant

4 characteristics of chant, which one is not: Monophonic, Meter, Unaccompanied, Church music

Meter

How do we determine the harmonies or notes played in chant?

Medieval modes

What was the name of the Medieval poet composers from southern France?

Troubadours

What is the earliest type of polyphonic music called?

Organum

What happened to polyphonic music during the 13th century in churches?

Started to become removed from services as a result of the Reformation and Schisms

One near universal feature from music around the world is that it is present where?

Role of its service in the church and religion

In church music, what do we call a short simple tune sung through many different stanzas of texts?

Hymn

The most important service in the Christian liturgy was what?

The mass

The mass was divided into 5 movements, which is not a movement?

Cantus

Which 2 techniques are blended/present in most high Renaissance music?

Imitated counterpoint and homophonic music

In terms of texture, high renaissance composers wanted to use polyphonic texture to created what?

Homophonic texture

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

The lyrics/words of their compositions to be more clearly heard

What technique do we call the style of setting words to music using rhythms that mimic the way we talk?

Declamation

What techniques do renaissance composers use to depict music in the words or ideas of the text

Word painting

Where was instrumental music heard during the renaissance?

Courts

What is the difference in English madrigal and Italian madrigal?

Italians are in Italian and English are in English

The Pavon and Galliard are examples of what?

Renaissance dance music

Who wrote O magnum Mysterium?

Giovanni Gabriel

What instruments do we hear in that?

Choir, string instruments, brass, organ

Monteverdi Orfeo is a what?

Opera

What country is opera from?

Italy

Musical form in the early broque period what becoming what?

Systematic and controlled

What time period did the broque period take place?

1600-1750

The idea of meter became more clear during the broque period. What else appeared in music that was not there before?

Bar lines

What does the term Baso continuo refer to

Baseline of a Broque composition

In broque music what is the technique in which there is a repeated base figure or chords?

Ground base

What do we call drama music in the form of a large production?

Opera

The operatic equivalent of dramatic dialogue is called what?

Recitative

In Recitative, what does the rhythm follow?

Rhythm of the speech

What is an aria in opera?

Extended piece for a solo singer

Who is known as the first great opera composer?

Claudio Monteverdi

What is a composition based purely on imitation?

Fugue