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| A texture where all the parts move at the same time, or there is a melody with accompanying harmony (as opposed to polyphony). |
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The various lines of music in a work. Texture is usually described as monophonic , homophonic, heterophonic or polyphonic.
-monophonic: chant. one note at a time.
-homophonic: melody
-polyphonic: most intellectual/ deep thinking |
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(German) A song – more specifically, a song in the great tradition of song-writing exemplified by the works of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, R Strauss and others.
-song associated with with poems with symmetrical stanzas |
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A A A A
-often associated with song (lied) settings of poems with symmetrical stanzas
-material repeats: A A A A
-stanza after stanza of identical rhythmic patterns
-every time means something different |
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-A three-part musical structure, in which the third part is an exact or modified repetition of the first.
-usually A and B contrast in musical ideas
-triptych
-ex: http://dumn.naxosmusiclibrary.com.libpdb.d.umn.edu:2048/mediaplayer/flash/http-fplayer.asp?br=64&tl=32248 |
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-descriptive choral music but avoids word-by-word illumination
-A choral composition for church, on texts which are not necessarily a part of the liturgy. It is the Catholic equivalent of the anthem of the Church of England.
-ex: http://dumn.naxosmusiclibrary.com.libpdb.d.umn.edu:2048/mediaplayer/flash/http-fplayer.asp?br=64&tl=5986 |
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| -When the characters in a film are hearing the sounds that we hear. |
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-Only intended for audience, characters cannot hear.
-orchestra, narrator |
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-Guiding themes for dramatic works-often musical materials that are connected with a character or idea that are transformed throughout the drama to match the action
-russian movie...brass for bad guys guys, choral for citizen, etc. |
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-music from reality
-music made out of sounds that are recorded
-desert electronic interpolation |
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| -When you have a huge amount of instruments where each instrument plays their own particular line |
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-relatively young study, 19th century
-historical, music iconography, ethnomusicology |
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| -study of musical instruments and their classification |
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-A group of instruments such as viols or recorders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
-A broken consort was one of mixed instruments |
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-told people physically how to play music in the home if they didn’t know how to play music
-a way for people who were not literate in music to play music
-showed you where to put your fingers |
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-series of instrumental movements based on european dance models
-usually simple binary forms
Typical dance movements
-padouana: slow
-gagliarda: fast
-courente: faster
-allemande: fastest, happy |
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| -flute, oboe, clarinet, french horn, bassoon |
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-composers began to write more complex music for instrumentalists
who were more professional
-4 members communicate through motion to eyes |
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-violin, violoncello, and piano
-can play more with different textures of sounds from the instruments |
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-each section usually equal in duration
-very simple, but contrasting, and always repeated |
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| -instruments of touch (keyboard, harp, guitar) |
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-“consort music”
-consort = together
-different size of viols always playing in group |
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| A bass line repeated throughout a composition. |
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-A form which involves the use of a recurrent theme between a series of varied episodes, often used for the final movement of a Classical concerto or symphony.
-A B A C A D A E... |
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