Music 104 Listening List - Exam 1

Vocabulary flashcards covering musical pieces, compositional elements, forms, and stylistic features for Music 104 Exam 1.

Bizet: Farandole

A full-orchestral piece exemplifying varying texture in duple meter and ABC form, culminating in section C with a polyphonic combination of Theme 1 and Theme 2 together in a Major key.

Farandole: Theme 1

A minor march played loudly ($f$) with heavy dotted rhythms, set in homophonic and, later, imitative polyphonic textures.

Farandole: Theme 2

A major dance tune played softly ($p$) with a light staccato character.

Farandole: Section C

The section featuring a polyphonic combination of Theme 1 and Theme 2 played together in a Major key.

Tchaikovsky: Dance of the Reed Pipes from The Nutcracker

A full-orchestral piece in duple meter exemplifying ABA' (ternary) form, featuring a generally homophonic texture and staccato articulation.

Dance of the Reed Pipes: Section A

Major key section featuring a staccato flute melody accompanied by ostinato pizzicato.

Dance of the Reed Pipes: Section B

Minor key section featuring a staccato brass melody accompanied by ostinato brass.

Bach: Bourrée from Lute Suite in E Minor

A solo piece for guitar or lute in AA/BB (binary) form, duple meter, and minor key, with polyphonic texture (melody plus bass line) in both sections.

Bourrée from Lute Suite in E Minor: Sections A and B Contrasts

Section A is dancelike, moves mostly by step with ascending pitches using a short-short-long rhythm; Section B uses the same rhythmic pattern but begins with descending pitches and contains more leaps in the melody.

Chant: Alleluia: Vidimus stellam

A medieval sacred monophonic chant sung by male voices in Latin; meterless and fluid with conjunct melodic shapes, narrow vocal range, text-driven phrasing, and an unclear key (neither major nor minor).

Hildegard of Bingen: O successores

A medieval sacred chant in Latin sung by female voices with instrumental drone accompaniment; monophonic, meterless, flowing, with clear cadences and a wider vocal range/more expressive delivery than earlier chants.

Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria

A Renaissance motet with sacred text in Latin, ABA form, and word painting; Section A features slow imitative polyphony in duple meter with overlapping phrases, while Section B is homophonic, faster, in triple meter, with clear phrasing.

Palestrina: Kyrie

A Renaissance motet with sacred Latin text in ABC form; Section A has slow imitative polyphony with a clear beat on 'Kyrie eleison', Section B features slow 3-voice imitation on 'Christe eleison', and Section C features faster, louder imitation on 'Kyrie eleison' ending in a long sustained chord.

Weelkes: As Vesta Was Descending

A Renaissance madrigal with secular text sung in English, polyphonic texture with extensive imitation, and vivid word painting on words such as 'descending,' 'ascending,' and 'running.'