Music Appreciation Final

List the six elements of music

Rhythm, Melody, Harmony, Timbre, Texture, and Form

Beat

Underlying pulse of music

Conjunct

Melody moves by small steps or intervals

Disjunct

Melody moves by big steps / erratic or intervals

Consonant

Combination of pitches is pleasing and stable

Monophonic

One melody line without accompaniment

What are the three categories of song?

Folk, Art, and Popular

Folk Songs

A more musically simple song that has been passed down from generation to generation without being written down

Art Songs

A song composed by someone with a high level of musical education, performed by more classically trained musicians, and written down from the start

Popular Songs

A song that is often not highly complex, often formulaic, and written for the purpose of making money

Song Cycle

Collection of songs either related topic or tell a story

Ethnomusicology

Study of music in cultural context

Lieder

German art songs

Aria

What we call a song in opera

Coloratura

Voice type that is high, light, and moves quickly

Oratorio

Musical drama uses forms of opera, but is not staged, and uses Biblical topics

Broadway Musical

Uses more popular forms of music

Verismo

Story of things that are true to life / common experiences

Beethoven

Classical composer who bridged the gap between Classical and Romantic periods

Program Music

Music that attempts to tell a story with sound

Orchestration

The art of writing for multiple instruments

Idee Fixe

A recurring musical theme that represents a character of place in a story

Movement

A complete musical piece that is part of a larger work

Symphony

A larger musical work for orchestra made up of several distinct pieces that go together; Usually has four movements, with the first and last movements set at a fast tempo

Sonata-Allegro Form

Exposition, development, recapitulation

Story of Symphonie Fantastique

Story of young man who falls in love with a girl and gets his head chopped off

What tone poem by Czech composer Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884) is about a river moving through the countryside, ending up in Prague?

The Moldau River

What tone poem by Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) did we listen to in class? What Christian hymn is patterned after a homophonic section at the end of the piece?

Finlandia “Be Still My Soul”

What ballet by Aaron Copland did we watch in class? It has a distinctively American sound.

Rodeo

Composed by Aaron Copland, is a tribute to Abraham Lincoln and features quotes from several of his speeches.

Lincoln Portrait