MUSIC HISTORY- Begbie Terms

Begbie gives 8 or so reasons for why to bother with music. Give four of them.

Music is pervasive in our culture. Music is also universal. Another reason for thinkng at length about music is the importance that many people are prepared to grant it in their lives. There are very close links between music and religious impulses.

Which instrument does Begbie say is “the most significant instrument in the OT?”

trumpet

What does Begbie mean by “music in action?”

Music as something done.

“Music thus shares in the ________________ dynamic of worship, which in turn is the dynamic of redemption

trinitarian

In corporate worship, what the twofold movement of  music in worship according to John Kleinig? 

from God to the worshipers and from the worshipers to God.

“In Ralph Martin’s words, “The Christian church was ___________ in ___________.”

born & song

What does the Bible say is the “ancestor of all those who play the lyre and harp?”

Jubal

“The harmony of the universe can be expressed in Mathematical __________ or ___________ apprehended by the mind, and the musical sounds can mediate these ratios.”

Ratios & proportions

Henry Chadwick sums up the estimation of music expressed here. “_______________ but _______________.”

indispensable & dangerous

What are the three levels of the “music of the Spheres?” (give the Latin)

Musica mundana, musica humana, and musica instrumentalis

Name the early medieval philosopher/poet who’s De Institutione Musica influenced the study of music for a millennium?

Boethius

What was Plato anxious about concerning music?

emotion in music

Which reformer thought music second only to the Word of God.

Martin Luther

Which reformer was the most musical, yet the most negative about music in worship?

Huldrych Zwingli

TRUE OR FALSE: Luther regarded all music, sacred and secular, as potentially valuable and God-glorifying.

TRUE

The remedy for “cold” prayer is ______________.”

psalm-singing.

“Calvin approaches music more as a ____________ practice than as one integrally embedded in order of the physical world.”

human

TRUE OR FALSE: Calvin prioritized the singing of hymns.

FALSE

“As far as the worship is concerned, his (Zwingli's) logic is lucid. Worship, scripture makes plain, is first and foremost an _____________ matter.”

internal.

TRUE OR FALSE: Instruments were allowed in worship by Calvin.

FALSE

Luther Quote - “Reason sees the world as extremely ungodly, and therefore it murmurs. The spirit sees nothing but God’s benefit in the world and therefore begins to ___________________ .” 

sing.

TRUE OR FALSE: Harmony was allowed in the liturgy by Calvin.

FALSE

What does Bach refer to as “the most perfect foundation of music?”

the thoroughtbass

“By the time Bach was an active composer, there was a fairly well-established tradition in baroque music theory of ____________________."  

musical rhetoric.

Bach attended the same school in Eisenach as what famous Reformer?

Luther

What is the theory of affects (Affektenlehre)? 

the theory of affects was in which specific musical materials and forms were correlated with certain affects, or emotional states, such as sadness, hate, joy, and love.

“Acting as Bach’s mouthpiece, Birnbaum speaks of “the eternal rules of music” and of polyphonous music as an exemplar of the ____________ and _______________pervading the cosmos.”

unity & diversity

TRUE OR FALSE: Bach was a staunch pietist.

FALSE

(Ch. 6) “Music without __________ becomes for many romantics the highest and most expressive are form” 

words.

James MacMillan said his “whole compositional philosophy thrives on ___________ and ____________.”

conflict & ambiguity.

“In many ways Schleiermacher was a man struggling to hold together what so many have failed to hold together in modern times: loosely speaking, ___________and ___________, head and heart.”

piety & intellect

Which composer is most linked to Bonhoeffer in his writings on the “polyphony of life?”

Bach

Which composer was Karl Barth’s favorite?

Mozart

“In Barth You see the most pointed effort in modern times to reverse what we have spoken of a number of times already, namely, the trend to treat music as essentially _________ projection .” 

human

What are the 3 particularly innovative techniques that contribute to the unique character of Messiaen’s music?

modes of limited transposition, nonretrograde rhythms, symmetrical permutations,

Critics of Schleiermacher’s ideas say the specifics of the Christian faith are in danger of being smothered and distorted by what all-consuming category?

religious experience

(Ch. 8) Begbie’s discussion of a Christian ecology falls under the “Doctrine of ___________.”

creation

Ch. 9) What is the result of combining the first six tones of the harmonic series? (hint- a 5 note scale)

pentatonic scale

Which composer did C.S. Lewis have an obsession with as a boy?

Wagner

What are the first three intervals in the harmonic series?

octave, perfect fifth, and perfect fourth

Begbie mentions a psalm where creations’ own praise is celebrated. Which psalm is that? 

Psalm 19

We who have misdirected our praise have been invited, against every expectation and everything we deserve, to step back into the role intended for us to voice ______________________to the resounding glory of the creator, and to witness wonders beyond imagining in our own lives in the lives of others.”

creation’s praise

Match the Composer to the correct compositional approach

Boulez (total control) and Cage (chance)

“To “grow up” into Christ is to grow up emotionally as much as anything else, and carefully chosen ___________________may have a larger part to play than we have yet imagined.”

music

List three of the six headings from ch.8 which were elaborated in ch.10.

healing, anticipating, and together

“Bach, … understood the elaboration of musical ideas not as an act of _____________________but rather as process imaginative research into harmonic implications of the chosen subject-matter.”

free creation