Untitled Flashcards Set

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FIVE MUSICAL ELEMENTS 

(Genre, Instruments, Rhythm, Metre, Melody) 

Ordo Virtutum, Prologue: Qui

sunt hi, ut sub nubes?

Hildegard von

Bingen

(500-1400)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Medieval Period 

Instruments: Voice

Rhythm: largo (tempo)

Melody: uses notes from the minor scale

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Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major,

Prélude (BWV 1007)

Johann Sebastian

Bach

(1600-1750)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Baroque Period

Instruments: cello

Melody: uses notes from the major scale, uses disjunct melodic motion

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Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, I: Allegro (Serenade in G, K. 525)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

(1750-1825)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Classical Period

Instruments: strings (orchestral family)

Rhythm: allegro (tempo)

Melody: uses notes from the major scale, uses disjunct melodic motion 

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COMPOSER/ARTIST

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Maple Leaf Rag

Scott Joplin

(1890-1920+)

Genre: Ragtime

Instruments: piano

Metre: uses syncopation

Melody: uses notes from the major scale, uses disjunct melodic motion

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The Rite of Spring, Part I, The Augurs of Spring

Igor Stravinsky

(1900-Present)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: 20th Century

Metre: mixed metre, uses syncopation

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George Gershwin

(1924)

Genre: Jazz, Classical

Instruments: clarinet (trill and glissando at beginning of piece)

Rhythm/Time: rit. at end of piece

Melody: uses notes from the chromatic scale

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It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)

Duke Ellington

(1930-1945+)

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Swing

Rhythm: swing rhythm

Metre:uses syncopation

Melody: uses disjunct melodic motion

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Take Five

Dave Brubeck

(1950-1970+)

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Cool Jazz

Instruments: alto saxophone, piano

Metre: 5/4, uses syncopation

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Someday My Prince Will Come

Miles Davis

(1950-1970+)

Genre: Jazz

Subgenre: Cool Jazz

Instruments: trumpet (with harmon mute), double bass (playing a walking bassline)

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Hymn to Freedom 

Oscar Peterson 

(1962)

Genre: Jazz, Blues

Instruments: piano, double bass (pizzicato, playing a walking bassline), drum set

Rhythm: swing rhythm

Metre:4/4

Melody: uses octaves (interval)

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Respect

Aretha Franklin

(1959-1972+)

Genre: R&B

Subgenre: Motown

Metre:: 4/4, uses a backbeat

Melody: uses conjunct melodic motion

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Silk Road, from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Tan Dun 

(1900-Present)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: 21st Century, Film Score

Instruments:cello

Rhythm:rubato (tempo alteration)

Metre:ametric

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If I Ain’t Got You

Alicia Keys

(1995-Present)

Genre: R&B

Subgenre: Neo-Soul

Instruments: piano (arpeggios at beginning of piece

Rhythm:varied phrase lengths

Metre:6/8

Melody: uses conjunct melodic motion

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The Only Exception

Paramore

(1990-Present)

Genre: Rock 

Subgenre: Alternative Rock

Instruments:guitar (strumming

Metre:3/4

Melody: uses conjunct melodic motion

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(Genre, Instruments, Rhythm, Metre, Melody) 

Partita for 8 Voices, I: Allemande

Caroline Shaw

(1900-Present)

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: 21st Century

Instruments: voice

Melody: sections are amelodi