Test #1 Review, Intro/middle ages/renaissance

Listening does NOT equal hearing

True

Melody

Musical sentence

Pitch

A fixed Vibration or vibrations per second

Harmony

Major 🙂 Minor ☹ (Pitches that happen at the same time)

rythm

marks time

Meter

the grouping of beats (duple, Triple, Quadruple etc)

Tempo

how fast or how slow

largo

very slow

adagio

slow

andante

walking pace

allegro

fast

presto

very fast

Dynamics

How loud or quiet

forte

loud

piano

soft

mezzo

medium

issimo

very

monophonic

melody alone (Ex: Gregorian chant)

homophonic

melody + accompaniment (Ex: singing and playing the guitar)

polyphonic

more than one melody (Ex: Row your boat)

Art classical

shorter

pop folk

louder, fun

Sacred

Religious

Secular

Non-religious

Accapella

voices alone, only singing

imitation

echo

word painting

the music does what the word being sung means

middle ages (476-1400)

Monophonic

Renaissance (1400-1600)

Polyphonic

Composer: Hildegard of Bingen

Song: Gregorian Chant

Composer: Perotin

Song: Organum

Composer: Machaut

Song: Ars Nova, Chanson

Composer: Josquin Des Prez

Motet

Composer: G.P. Palestrina

Mass

Composer: Arcadelt

Song: Italian Madrigal

Composer: John Farmer

Song: English Madrigal

who were the composers of the middle ages?

Hildegard, Perotin, Machaut (HPM)

What were the composers of the Renaissance?

Josquin, G.P, Arcadelt, John (JGAJ)