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Music test over Baroque and Medieviel periods
Music test over Baroque and Medieviel periods
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Undergraduate 2
09/27/2011

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Monody
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Solo song with instrument accompaniment to recreate drastic art of ancient Greece.
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Major-Minor
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Bach
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Rhythm, Meldoy, Dissonance
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Camerata
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Aimed to resurrect dramatic Greece.
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Virtuoso
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Performer of extraordinary technical ability.
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Opera
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Play or drama, large scale, costumes, sing everything
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Martin Luther was happening
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Oratorio
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Large scale drama, has religous texts
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Aria
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More lyrical, emotional tension
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Overture
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Happens at beginning
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Monteverdi
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Wrote Orfeo. Orfeo was based mainly off Greek mythology.
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First operas were
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only for Royal court
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Henry Purcell
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Wrote Dido and Aeneas
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Librettist
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Wrote text for operas called librettos
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Handel
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Wrote "Messiah"
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J.S. Bach
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Cantata- A mighty fortress is our God
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Concerto
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Instrumental genre in several movements for solo instrument and orchestra.
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Concertino
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Solo group of instruments in the Baroque concerto grosso.
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Baroque Suite dances
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allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue
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Stradivarius
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Woodwinds, hornpipes, minuet, organ, harpsichord, clavichord.
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Vivaldi
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Four seaons- was program music
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Fugue
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The subject, or main theme, of fugue is stated alone at beginning in one of the voices.
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Exposition
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at the end
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Episodes
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Interludes that serve as areas of relaxation.
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Middle ages lasted
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Nearly 1,000 years
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Centers of power that were also sacred were
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Early Christian churches and state centers
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New Genres
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Vernacular
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Gregorian Chant
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Monophonic melody with a freely flowing, unmeasured vocal line.
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Liturgy
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The set order of religious services and the structure of each service, within a particular denomination.
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Ars Nova
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New art- rise of secular chansons
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Polyphony
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Combination of two or more simultaneous melodic lines at the same time.
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Organum
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Earliest polyphonic music grew out of adding chant to Gregorian chant.
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Motet
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non-religious
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Minstrels
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Like gypsies-known as troubadours in France
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Chanson
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French for "song"
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Bos
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Soft indoor instrument
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Haut
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Outdoor instruments
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Early trombone was called
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Sackbut
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Renaissance
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Time of exploration, people began building instruments and printing music.
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A cappella
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Golden age renaissance- unaccompanied vocal music.
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Word painting
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allowed texts to be expressed musically.
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Josquin Des Prez
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Wrote Ave Maria. Wrote 20 polyphonic masses and 80 motets.
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Chanson
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French madrigal-English- 3 or 4 voices mainly love poems from renaissance poets.
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Sixteenth century madrigal
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Poetry and music, weeping, singing, began Italian
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English madrigal
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used Fa la la la la.
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Figure bass
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shorthand allowed performer to supply chords through improvisation.
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Virtuoso
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Composed solo instrument- had accompaniment.
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Great Voyages
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Music from Persia, India, Turkey
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Cantata
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Vocal genre for solo singers, chorus, and instrumentalists based on a lyric or dramatic poetic narrative.
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Musical Movements of the Mass
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1.Kyrie

2. Gloria

3. Credo

4. Sanctus Agnus Dei

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Handel "Messiah" Hallelujah chorus
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is an oratorio
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Vivaldi "Four Seasons Spring"
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Is for string quartet
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Handel's Water Music-has drums
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is for Baroque orchestra
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Bach "Contrapunctus No.1" from Act of Fugue- Very stringy
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Contains harpsichord
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