Music Appreciation

Renaissance

1450-1600

Baroque

1600-1750

Middle Age

400-1450

Vivaldi

600 concertos, redhead priest, four seasons

Chanson

A french version of a madrigal

Versailles

A palace which housed king and queens of France until the french revolution

Madrigal

A part-song for several voices, especially one of the Renaissance period, typically arranged in elaborate counterpoint and without instrumental accompaniment. Secular vocal music. Italian

Credo

A statement of beliefs. Longest part of the mass.

Plainchant

Another term for plainsong, unaccompanied music sung in church in unison

Mass

Bach Mass in b minor

Passion

Bach story of Christs death

Name the composers of the baroque period

Bach, Handel, Vivaldi, Purcell

Handel

Born in Germany lived in England, oratorios, operas

Purcell

English opera composer

terraced dynamics

Expressive style typical of some early music in which volume levels shift abruptly from soft to loud and back without gradual crescendos and decrescendos

Bach

German 200 cantatas, 6 brandenburg concertos, organist

Gloria

Glory to God in the highest and is used at Christmas time

Sanctus

Holy

What are the five parts to a mass

Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei,

Agnus Dei

Lamb of God- last part of the mass

Name the two composers of the Middle Age period

Leonin and Perotin

Kyrie

Lord have mercy and its the only Greek part of the mass

What are the forms of renaissance music

Mass Motet Chanson Madrigal requiem

What are the forms of Middle age music

Mass, Motet, Organum, Plainchant, Early Polyphony

What are the two types of chant

Melismatic and Syllabic

Modal

Modal music is in a mode which is a seven note scale

What are the style of music in the renaissance period

Modal, Polyphonic, A Capella, Antiphonal

Who are the bridge composers of the Renaissance age

Monteverdi ( monody and opera) and Gabrieli (antiphonal poly-choral)

Gutenberg

Movable type- printed the bible -1450

Melismatic

Music sung in style

Chant

Non concert music. its goal is to contribute to worship. monophonic texture-no harmony.

Oratorio

Non staged religous theme which also consists of aria, recitative , libretto, chorus and a orchestra

Keyboard Instruments in a Baroque piece

Organ Harpsichord piano

Who are the composers of the Renaissance age

Palestrina and Josquin

Polyphonic

Producing many sounds simultaneously, many voices each having a melody of its own.

Monody

Refers to a solo vocal style distinguished by having a single melodic line and instrumental accompaniment.

Antiphonal

Sung, recited, or played alternately by two groups.

Eucharist

The Christian ceremony commemorating the Last Supper, in which bread and wine are consecrated and consumed

Baroque Architecture

The building style of the Baroque era, begun in late 16th-century Italy, that took the Roman vocabulary of Renaissance architecture and used it in a new rhetorical and theatrical fashion, often to express the triumph of the Catholic Church and the absolutist state. It was characterized by new explorations of form, light and shadow, and dramatic intensity.

Polyphony

The style of simultaneously combining a number of parts, each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other.

Doctrine of affections

Theory of musical aesthetics, widely accepted by late Baroque theorists and composers, that embraced the proposition that music is capable of arousing a variety of specific emotions within the listener.

Requiem

a Mass for the repose of the souls of the dead.

Figured bass

a bass line with the intended harmonies indicated by figures rather than written out as chords, typical of continuo parts in baroque music.

Sonata

a composition for an instrumental soloist, often with a piano accompaniment, typically in several movements with one or more in sonata form.

Opera

a dramatic work in one or more acts, set to music for singers and instrumentalists

Chorale

a musical composition (or part of one) consisting of or resembling a harmonized version of a simple, stately hymn tune. German congregation music

Lute

a plucked stringed instrument with a long neck bearing frets and a rounded body with a flat front that is shaped like a halved egg.

Motet

a short piece of sacred music typically polyphonic and unaccompanied. Sacred music based on Latin texts

Program music

a term usually applier to any musical composition on the classical music tradition in which the piece is designed according to some preconceived narrative, or is designed to evoke a specific idea and atmosphere.

basso continuo

an accompanying part that includes a bass line and harmonies, typically played on a keyboard instrument and with other instruments such as cello or bass viol. Primarily the harpsichord and cello

Overture

an orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other extended composition. prelude

Sinfonia

an orchestral piece used as an introduction, interlude, or postlude to an opera, oratorio, cantata, or suite.

Gregorian chant

church music sung as a single vocal line in free rhythm and a restricted scale (plainsong), in a style developed for the medieval Latin liturgy.

Opera

consists of aria, recitative, libretto, chorus, orchestra, stage and costumes

Syllabic

in which each syllable of text is matched to a single note.

Gothic Cathedrals

is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period.

Strophic

is the term applied to songs in which all verses or stanzas of the text are sung to the same music.

Continuous Melody

lost of counterpoint and complex melodies

Major and minor tonality

major and minor can describe a musical composition, movement, section, scale, key, chord, or interval.

Organum

medieval music, a form of early polyphony music based on plainchant. The second step to a chant.

Concerto Grosso

music material passed between a small group of soloists and a full orchestra Dance suite-instrumental dance music

A Capella

music that is unaccompanied

tempered tuning

playing in any key not returning to that key.

Cantana

similar to oratorio but shorter. a medium-length narrative piece of music for voices with instrumental accompaniment, typically with solos, chorus, and orchestra.

Solo Concerto

solo accompanied by the orchestra

Solo concerto

solo accompanied by the orchestra Concerto Grosso - music material passed between a small group of soloists and a full orchestra Dance suite-instrumental dance music Overture - an orchestral piece at the beginning of an opera, suite, play, oratorio, or other extended composition. prelude Sonata-a composition for an instrumental soloist, often with a piano accompaniment, typically in several movements with one or more in sonata form.

Neumes

systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation

Tone Painting

the musical technique of writing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song.

What is ordinary

the non changing part of the mass.