Performing Arts Midterm

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Johann Sebastian Bach
1685-1750

Baroque

Germany
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How was Gregorian chant written before notes were on 4 lines?
With squiggles, dashes and dots above the words
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Who developed solfeggio?
Guido d’Arezzo
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What was the original name for “do”?
Ut
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Kyrie eleison, christe eleison
Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy
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Agnus dei
Lamb of God
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Ordinaries of the mass in order
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus dei
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ars nova
14th century, “new art”
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Palestrina
Italy
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Who was the first known composer?
Enhenduana
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When was the oldest instrument made?
36,000 BC
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What did Guillamue Machaut do?
completed the first setting of all Mass ordinaries
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How do we know there was music before recorded history?
Cave paintings, statues, surviving instruments
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What are the 4 instrument groups?
Aerophones, Membranophones, Idiophones, Chordophones
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What does Advent celebrate?
the last and first coming of Jesus
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Where were the first writings of music found?
Mesopotamia
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What os the oldest complete song?
Epitaph of Seikilos
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What does Clara dream in the nutcracker?
Clara dreams she’s shrinking and the tree is growing
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Who wrote the Nutcracker?
Peter Tchaikovsky
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Who is Fritz?
Clara’s brother
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What is the name of the prince’s kingdom in the Nutcracker?
Land of Sweets
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Ars Antiqua
13th century, “ancient art”
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What century did Leonin live in?
12th century
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What language is Kyrie?
Greek
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Where is the opening scene in the Nutcracker?
The Staulbaum home
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Who gives Clara the Nutcracker?
Drosselmeyer
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What does Magnus Liber Organi mean
The Great Book of Organa
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Who were Lenin and Pertatin?
composers from Notre Dame school
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Who wrote first ever written polyphony in western music?
Leonin
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Who was a student of Leonin?
Perotin
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Mozart
1756-1791, from Germany
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Beethoven
1770-1827
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Chopin
from Poland
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Tchaikovsky
from Russia
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Romantic period
1830-1900
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Rennaissance Period
1400-1600
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Early Music
anything before 1400
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20th Century
1900-2000
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Baroque Period
1600-1750
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Classical Period
1750-1830