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IU Z101 Final (Asai)
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47
Music
Undergraduate 2
05/02/2012

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Term
Play of Virtues
Definition

Hildegard von Bingen -  Secular Song  -  (ca. 1150)

  • plainchant
  • monophony
    • provided clarity for worship
  • melismas and syllabic text
  • free rhythm
  • Conjunct Melodies
Term
I Can All Too Well Compare My Lady
Definition

Machaut  -  Secular Song - (ca. 1350)

  • polyphony (independent voices)
  • courtly love
  • AAB
  • Mass oridinary song
Term
The Cricket
Definition

Josquin des Prez  -  Secular Song  -  (ca. 1500)

  • four-voice polyphony (all equal)
  • counterpoint
  • ternary form (ABA)
  • word-painting
Term
Sing Joyfully
Definition

William Byrd  -  Anthem  -  (1590)

  • polyphony (six-voice)
  • a capella choral music
  • imitative counterpoint
  • sectional form
Term
Orpheus
Definition

Claudio Monteverdi  -  Early Baroque Opera - (1607)

  • homophony (subordinate accompaniment)
  • basso continuo
  • recitative
Term
Brandeburg Concerto no. 2
Definition

J.S. Bach  -  Concerto Grosso  - (1720)

  • ritornello principle
  • fugal texture
  • extreme timbral contrast
  • vehicle for virtuosic displays
Term
Messiah
Definition

Handel  -  Oratorio  -  (1747)

  • ritornello and sectional form
  • aria & recitative
  • all three textures
Term
String Quartet in C Major
Definition

Haydn  -  String Quartet  -  (1797)

  • theme and variation form
    • each variation is assigned a diff. instrument
  • periodic phrase structure
    • memics a conversation between instruments
Term
Symphony no. 40 in G Minor
Definition

Mozart  -  Symphony -  (1788)

  • Sonata form
    • modulation
  • contrasting themes (characters in a drama)

 

Term

Marriage of Figaro

Definition

Mozart  -  Comic Opera  -  (1786)

  • opera buffa
  • drama through music
    • each voice is a character, represents character's emotion
  • accompanied recitative
  • Rondo Form
Term
Symphony no. 5 in C Minor
Definition

Beethoven  -  Symphony  -  (1808)

  • rhythmic motif
    • cyclic form
  • sonata form
  • Dynamic contrast (loud vs. soft)
  • theme and variations
  • scherzo
Term

Erlkonig

Definition

Schubert  -  Song  -  (1815)

  • ballad
  • modified strophic form
  • word painting through music
    • enhances plot
Term
Overture to A Midsummer's Night Dream
Definition

Felix Mendelssohn  -  Concert Overture  -  (1826)

  • program music
  • drama represented in a purely instrumental musical
    • each situation is given a theme
  • sonata form
Term

Symphonie Fantastique

Definition

Berlioz  -  Programmatic Symphony  -  (1830)

  • modern orchestra
    • mastered orchestration 
  • program music
  • Contrasting sections (major vs. minor)
  • Idee Fixe
Term
Piano Trio in D Minor
Definition

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel - Piano Trio - (1846)

  • chamber music for the home
  • song without words
    • invitation to create our own
  • modified strophic form
Term
Forward!
Definition

Clara Schumann - A capella choral - (1848)

  • political music
  • word-painting of "Forward!" (trumpets)
  • timbre of the a capella
    • unison and patriotic
  • Nationalism

 

Term
Mazurka in B-flat
Definition

Chopin  -  Charater piece for piano - (1830s)

  • drone bass
  • Repetition, Variation, and Contrast
  • song-like vocal texture in piano
    • homophonic texture
  • Nationalism & Romanticism
Term
Union
Definition

Gottschalk  -  Solo Piano  -  (1862)

  • Virtuosity
    • homophonic vs. polyphonic
  • Nationalism
    • response to the civil war
  • uses American folk melodies
Term
La Traviata 
Definition

Verdi - Opera - (1853)

  • integretation of recitative and aria
    • uses aria to show deep emotion
  • vocal virtuosity
  • little focus on the orchestra
Term
The Valkyrie
Definition

Wagner  -  Opera  -  (1856)

  • balance of voice and the orchestra
  • thematic ideas are represented in the music
  • Leitmotif
  • kept vocal parts simple and clear
Term
Symphony no. 4
Definition

Brahms -  Symphony - (1885)

  • theme and variations form
    • theme derived from Bach's Cantata
    • complex
  • ABA form
  • orchestral timbre
  • Combined old forms with new elements
Term

String Quartet "American"

Definition

Dvorak  -  String Quartet -  (1893)

  • call and response
  • pentatonic melody
  • folk-like rhythms
  • Nationalism
Term

Violes

Definition

Claude Debussy  -  Character Piece for Piano  - (1910)

  • timbre of the piano
    • Gamelan
  • whole-tone scale
    • harmonies unsolved, melodies float in and out
  • atonal
  • Impressionism
Term
The Unanswered Question
Definition

Ives - Programmatic Work for chamber orchestra - (1908)

  • layered texture
  • dissonance vs. consonance
  • tonal vs. atonal
  • symbolism
Term
Columbine
Definition

Schoenberg - Song cycle for voice and chamber - (1912)

  • atonality
  • sprechstimme
  • expressionism
Term
The Rite of Spring
Definition

Stravinsky - Ballet - (1913)

  • primitivism
  • polytonality
  • pentatonic melodies (simple)
  • mega orchestra
  • metrical irregularity
    • ostinato
Term
Maple Leaf Rag
Definition

Joplin - Ragtime - (1899)

  • syncopation
  • sectional form
  • compound melodies
Term
Terraplane Blues
Definition

Johnson - Downhome Blues - (1936)

  • 12-bar form
  • blue notes
  • lyrical content: blue, sad
  • symbolism
Term
Cotton Tail
Definition

Ellington - Big Band Jazz - (1940)

  • big-band insturmentation
  • swing rhythms
  • 32-bar song (AABA)
Term
Ornithology
Definition

Parker - Bebop Jazz - (1946)

  • virtuosity
  • jazz combo instrumentation
  • improvisation
  • soloist vs. rhythm section
Term
Piano Study in Mixed Accents
Definition

Ruth Crawford - Solo piano music - (1930)

  • atonality
  • register as a structure
  • modernism
Term
Concertino for Harp and Orchestra
Definition

Tailleferre - Neoclassicism - (1927)

  • periodic phrase structure
  • transparency
  • rondo form
Term
A Black Pierrot
Definition

William Still - Art Song - (1949)

  • blues inflections
  • chromatic harmony (dissonance)
  • through-composed piece
Term
"Hoe-Down"
Definition

Copland - Ballet - (1942)

  • popular modernist
  • traditional folk tunes
  • open orchestration
  • rondo form
Term
Concerto for Orchestra
Definition

Bartok - Concerto - (1943)

  • symmectrical form
  • folk melodies
  • orchestration virtuosity
  • pairs of instruments
Term
Tonight
Definition

Bernstein - Musical - (1957)

  • additive form
  • contrasting meanings
  • polyphony
Term
Indeterminacy
Definition

Cage - Aleatory Music - (1959)

  • aleatory music
  • musique concrete
  • electronic music
  • experimental
Term
Knee Play 1: Einstein on the Beach
Definition

Glass - Opera - (1976)

  • drama without a plot
  • variation form
  • ostinato
  • minimalism
Term
School Day
Definition

Chuck Berry - RocknRoll - (1957)

  • Shuffle rhythm
  • guitar solos
  • 12-bar blues form
  • stop timing
Term
Good Vibrations
Definition

Beach Boys - Psychedelia - (1966)

  • Composition in the studio
  • psychedelic timbres
  • themlin
  • verse-chorus / sectional form
Term
A la Par
Definition

Leon - Music for percussion ensemble - (1986)

  • tonal vs. atonal
  • percussion
  • Nationalism
  • Post-modernism
Term
Farewell
Definition

Tan Dun - Film Music - (2000)

  • mix of western and eastern styles
  • pentatonic melodies
  • symbolism (man and a woman)
Term
Counterpoint
Definition
  • rules that govern the composition of multiple melodies
  • note-against-note 
Term
Ternary Form
Definition
  • ABA
  • idea is shown, contrasted, and returned
  • Ex:
    • "The Cricket"
Term
Anthem (genre)
Definition

English version of a sacred choral work

 

meant to be sung in church

Term
Imitative Counterpoint
Definition
  • type of counterpoint where one voice presents a theme and other voices imitate it
Term
Sectional Form
Definition
each new section of text gets its own melodic idea
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