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Same melody is performed by different voices, entering one at a time
Can be Strict (round) or free |
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Secular voice pieces for a small group of singers, usually unaccompanied
*Love, descriptions of nature, war or battles* |
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Uses chant in all voices (like a round)
Lots of mileage from one tune
Used by Josquin in Renaissance music |
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LONG-short-short
Rhythmic pattern: Late Renaissance and early Baroque |
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Renaissance dance in binary form
Duple meter |
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Renaissance dance in binary form
triple meter |
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Resting point/ stopping point
One part stops, but another keeps going
Allows music to keep floating
Used by Josquin in Renaissance music |
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Voices are paired (tenors and basses are close, then sopranos and altos enter)
Almost like a call and response |
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"grotesque" or "absurd"
-Portugese for irregularly shaped pearl |
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Founder of the church
Associated with keys |
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Strong contrasts of light and dark
Refers to the front and back of the painting |
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Instrumental composition based upon the principal of contrast
Constant interplay between a small group (or soloist) called solo and a large group called ripieno
Typically consist of three sections (movements) in a tempo scheme of fast-slow-fast |
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All
Can also be called ripieno
(everyone plays - in reference to concertos) |
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| Refrain (that which returns) |
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Chamber works
Less dependent on contrast
Designed for a group smaller than an orchestra |
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| Originally designed to accompany dancing |
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Protestant movement
Hymn with a steady rhythm and simple tune (usually sung in unison by the whole congregation) |
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Large-scale work like an opera
Not staged
Narrator sings the story
Other singers sing the words of people in the story |
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| Composition based on the gospel account of the last days of Jesus |
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| Bass line is never silent in a Baroque composition |
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| Music of Baroque written for solo voice and basso continuo that imitated natural rhythms of impassioned speech |
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Toccata/ fantasia
Rambling, improvisatory piece of the kind that organists play to fill in time before, during, or after the church service |
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| Carefully worked out polyphonic composition that uses a theme (or "subject") that occurs in all the voices, or musicial lines, in turn |
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First violin
Made from Stradivari family in Italy |
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| Instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene |
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Opposite of program music
"Music for music's sake"
Music that does not tell a story or make reference to anything outside itself |
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Forerunner of piano
Associated with Baroque
Plucked sound (ends right away)
Reason for busy sound
Accompaniment most of the time |
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Indentifiable, repeated subject (theme)
Mathematical
Must be trained on the subject so you can always find it |
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| Time in fugues when subject goes away |
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| Bringing something back; specifically Greece and Rome |
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Music for home-making
1 person per part
Smaller than an orchestra |
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2 violins
1 viola
1 cello
Allowed for mixing of classes |
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Departure and return idea: (familiar, variety, familiar)
People want variety, but still something to hold on to |
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Don't know when to applause
Starts and stops
Ends with a "comma" (beginning sound) |
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Similar to play or novel
Appeals to the mind
Balance of emotion
Same principle as rondo (departure and return)
Procedes from a stable situation toward conflict, to heightened tension, then back to stability
Game plan or procedure (comparable to the rules for a sport or the outline for a paper) |
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| Pick and choose from various sytles of the past --> 19th century architecture |
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| Use of color theory to paint with dots of color |
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Directness, instinctiveness, exoticism of nonurban cultures
Beginning of 20c |
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| Paintings with no recognizable subject |
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| International Style of modern architecture |
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Severe horizontal and vertical lines
Reinforced concrete -- structural steel and glass
White walls
Flat roofs
Directness and simplicity in use of materials
Avoidance of ornament
Easily copied style |
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| Organic style of modern architecture |
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Nonsymmetrical designs (interact spacially with natural surroundings)
Flowing space from one area to another
Not boxy
Choice of material blends well with the site (consider local climate)
Not easily copied |
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| Colors blend into one another |
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