Vocal Music in Two Worlds

Musical ideas

Musical ideas

________ were articulated through phrases that formed periods.

Calvinist

________- metrical psalms, rhyming, easily singable.

Historical significance

________- comic opera responded to widespread demand for naturalness and anticipated the trend toward musical nationalism.

Differentiation

________ of musical material by function- each segment was recognizable as a beginning, middle, or ending statement.

Periodicity

________- frequent resting points break the melodic flow into related segments.

differentiation of material

Coherence, ________ according to its function.

Pergolesi

________- la serva padrona, relies heavily on humour, contrast, musical style is evolving to reflect humans internal dialogue.

Puritans

________ had disdain for theater and distrust of pleasure.

Koch

________ wrote the most thorough guide to melodic composition based on rhetorical principles.

Musical life

________ in the early classic period reflected the international culture that spread throughout europe during the enlightenment.

Musical rhetoric

________- terminology borrowed from rhetoric.

19th century

________- bach is the father of all great german music and most great music is german.

Division of melody

________ into phrases and periods is supported by harmony and shaped by weaker and stronger cadences, slower harmonic rhythm animated with rhythmic devices such as alberti bass.