Musical Style Final – Flashcards
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dominated the history of Western music for its first 1400 years.
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The Catholic Church
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When secular music and drama were added to the church liturgy this was called :
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liturgical drama
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a system of organizing chants attributed to Pope Gregory
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Gregorian Chant
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chant was set in:
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Monophonic texture
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The performance of chant can be:
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Sometimes syllabic, sometimes mellisimatic, sometimes both
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The scale patterns of Gregorian chants are referred to as :
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Church modes
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Polyphonic texture came into existence around the:
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11th century
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An important region in the development of notation was:
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Northern France
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When each voice enters separately, but imitates the previous voice this is called:
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Imitative Counterpoint
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Thick, Renaissance polyphony produced a problem, namely:
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Obscuring the text
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Individuals such as Michelangelo, da Vinci, Luther, and Shakespeare were associated with :
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Renaissance period
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In the Renaissance patronage of the arts began to shift from:
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the church to the courts
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part of the mass that varies according to the church calendar.
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the proper
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Machaut's setting of the mass was important because of:
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Unity
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Polyphonic settings of the mass were most prevalent in:
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Italy
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Madrigals are typically written in:
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the vernacular
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Forerunner of the violin
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viele
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List, together with their dates, the six periods of music history presented in the text.
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The beginnings of Western music until 1450 The Renaissance (1450-1600) The Baroque Period (1600-1750) Classic Period (1750-1820) Romantic Period (19th century) The 20th Century
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Name the three musical textures
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Monophonic, polyphonic, homophonic
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To what does SATB refer?
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A choir of sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses
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What are the main, sacred, choral genres of the Renaissance?
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mass, motel, madrigal
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Name the five parts of the ordinary
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Kyrie, gloria, credo, sanctus & benedictus, and agnus dei
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Name the two countries where madrigals flourished
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Italy and England
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Name a common Renaissance keyboard instrument.
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harpsichord
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The reform of 1517 divided the church into what two groups?
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Catholic and Protestant
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What composer fought to retain polyphony in the Catholic Church during the reformation?
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
