Music Appreciation Review 1 – Flashcards
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Placement of accents away from their normal stresses in the meter
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Syncopation
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What music can be defined as the art of
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Sound in time
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How musical time is measured
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Beats
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ONE two three, ONE two three
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Triple meter grouping
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Each occurrence of a repeated pattern of a principal strong beat and one or more weaker beats
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Measure or Bar
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ONE two, ONE two, ONE two, ONE two
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Duple meter grouping
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Any recurring pattern of strong and weak beats
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Meter
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An individual movement of music is often referred to by this
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Tempo indication
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Adagio: very slow Andante: slow; walking Moderato: medium Allegretto: moderately fast Allegro: fast or cheerful Presto: very fast
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6 common tempo indications from slow to fast
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Very slow
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Adagio
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Slow; walking
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Andante
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Medium; moderate
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Moderato
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Moderately fast
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Allegretto
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Fast; cheerful
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Allegro
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Very fast
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Presto
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ONE two *three* four, ONE two *three* four
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Simple meter grouping
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Speed at which beats follow one another
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Tempo
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An example of nonmetrical music
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Gregorian chant
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Highness or lowness of a sound
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Pitch
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Musical term for level of sound
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Dynamics
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Another term for tone color
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Timbre
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Musical term for "suddenly"
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Subito
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The language in which dynamics are usually described
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Italian
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Gradual increase in dynamic level
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Crescendo
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Pianissimo: pp, very soft Piano: p, soft Mezzo piano: mp, medium soft Mezzo forte: mf, medium loud Forte: f, loud Fortissimo: ff, very loud
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6 dynamic levels and abbreviations
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Very soft, pp
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Pianissimo
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Soft, p
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Piano
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Medium soft, mp
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Mezzo piano
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Medium loud, mf
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Mezzo forte
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Loud, f
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Forte
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Very loud, ff
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Fortissimo
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They tend to be simple and easily singable
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Tunes
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A particular arrangement of whole steps and half steps
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Diatonic scale
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A melodic pattern of pitches that is repeated at different pitch levels
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Sequence
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Musical term for a high point
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Climax
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The set of 7 pitches used in western music
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Diatonic scale
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Consists of half steps
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Chromatic scale
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Moments at ends of phrases where melody pauses or stops altpgether
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Cadences
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A collection of fixed pitches
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Scale
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Distance between two pitches that seem to duplicate each other and blend very well together
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Octave
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In songs, musical phrases generally coincide with these
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The lines of poetry
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A chord that creates a sense of rest
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Consonant
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Groupings of several pitches sounded simultaneously
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Chords
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The effect of chords with a melody
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Harmony
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3 main textures of Western art in music
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Monophony, homophony, and polyphony
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Occurs when the melody is heard in one line and the other parts have clearly less important material that forms and accompaniment
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Homophony
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The texture that combines two or more individual melody lines
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Polyphony
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Closely related to polyphony
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Counterpoint
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Principle of organizing music around a central, "home" pitch
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Tonality
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A change in key indicates a change in?
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The location of the tonic
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Which mode is formed with the diatonic scale oriented around C?
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Major
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Number of major and minor scales that can be built on the notes of the chromatic scale
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Twenty four
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Music in minor mode can be described as ___, while major mode can be considered ___
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Sad; happy
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Moving from one key to another in the middle of a composition
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Modulation
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A musical composition takes on its form through?
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Repetition and contrast
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A way to connect the beginning, middle and end of a musical piece
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Form
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Can trigger an emotional click when the tune reoccurs later in a piece, like melody in form
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Repetition of elements
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In a piece of music that can be diagrammed as A B A, the A indicates ___, and the B indicates ___.
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Repetition; contrast
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The genre of a musical work can be determined by its
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Text, function, and performing forces
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Troubadours and trouveres did not sing about
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Religious praise
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Traditionally associated with collecting and codifying the chants of the church
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Pope Gregory I
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Plainchant is metered, T/F?
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False
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The medieval polyphonic form that resulted from the addition of texts to the upper parts while retaining the Gregorian chant in the lower part
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Motet
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What happened to polyphonic music during the thirteenth century?
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It became more removed from church services
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The early history of Western music was dominated by
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The Christian church
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In Western music, what the musical style in the period after 1300 was called
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Ars nova
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Popular musicians of the middle ages
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Jongleurs
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The single line melodies of the early Christian church
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Plainchant
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5th century to the 14th and 15th centuries
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Middle Ages time period
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4 medieval modes, and each starting pitch in the diatonic scale
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D Dorian, E Phrygian, F Lydian, G Mixolydian
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In medieval music the plainchant melody ___ voice, but in the early Renaissance it moved to the ___ voice
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Lowest; highest
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The pavan is in ___ meter, and the galliard is in ___ meter.
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Duple; triple
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How many standard sections to the polyphonic Mass?
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5
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The basis for the development of great Baroque instrumental music was laid in this time period
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The Renaissance
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Types of Renaissance dance music
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The pavan and the galliard
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Preferred tone color of High Renaissance style
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Voices alone
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Why was the motet more attractive than the Mass to 16th century composers?
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It allowed for different texts, but the Mass always had the same text
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In church music, a short tune sung through many stanzas of text
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Hymn
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Device used by Renaissance composers to depict in music the words or ideas of a text
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Word painting
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How can rhythm in the High Renaissance style be characterized?
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Rhythm unaccented and fluid, meter often obscured
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The text of the Kyrie section of the Mass
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Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison, Kyrie eleison
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Most important part of the daily church services
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Mass
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Name the 5 parts of the mass
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Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
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Set of dances collected from and opera or ballet
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Suite
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There is very little accompaniment for the soloist in this
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Recitative
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Refers to the bass line and continuous chords of a Baroque composition
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Basso continuo
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Extended piece for a solo singer having more musical elaboration and a steadier pulse than a recitative
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Aria
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Opera provided the perfect vehicle for the Baroque idea of expressing?
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The emotions of the individual
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The Baroque period spans these years
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1600 to 1750
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Two instruments that would have most likely played the basso continuo in the Baroque era
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Cello and harpsichord
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In the early Baroque period, composers subdivided choirs to exploit more:
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Sonorous effects
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A Baroque composition that treats one melody imitatively
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Fugue
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Most advanced form in late Renaissance music
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Madrigal
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Baroque treatment of meter
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Meter became more accepted, bar lines came into use
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Drama set to music
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Opera
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Musical form in the Baroque period became more?
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Controlled and systematic
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3 main sources of instrumental music
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Dance, virtuosity, and vocal music
