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What is Tintinnabuli?
Begins with diatonic mel. other parts sing from tonic triad
A type of metal percussion instrument
A composition style developed by Arvo Pärt
When bells are used in music
2
What is tempo rubato?
Taking liberties with the tempo for expressive purposes
Approximately 103bpm
Robbed Time
Slower than Allegro, faster than Adagio
3
What is it called when the harmonizers sing the chant a perfect 5th below the original pitch?
Florid Organum
Parallel Organum
Free Organum
4
What is figured bass?
A type of basso continuo
Another name for the tenor line
Where numerals indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord
A fancy name for a fancy string bass
5
Silent Night is through-composed
False
True
6
What is an Oratorio?
A musical about the bible
A short, unstaged bible opera for church
Like an Opera but not an Opera
A long, unstaged, bible opera for performance
7
What did Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre do?
Published a book of harpsichord suites
She wrote a very famous requiem
Played the harpsichord like a madwoman
Was the first-ever female composer
8
What is a suite?
Bach's favourite Candy
A type of German folk music
A set of stylized dances meant to be performed together
A set of chamber music works performed in an Opera house
9
Who invented the Piano?
J.S Bach
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Arthur Dent
Bartolomeo Cristofori
10
What is an Antiphonal Performance style?
Played by two groups
More than one voice singing
Call and Response
Melody sung in parallel fifths
11
What's that?
An old guitar
The good kush
A lute
A Theorbo
12
What is Expressionism?
Expressive music
Music avoids tradition 2 show feels through exaggeration
Music that gives you feels
The scream (Painting)
13
When did Handel live?
1540-1620
1820-1910
1663-1750
1685 - 1759
14
What is contrafactum?
A type of low clarinet
Changing the text but not the music
Changing the music but not the text
When the melody is in the bass
15
What is Concertato Style?
A musical work featuring an instrument
Divided choirs
When more than one instrument is used in the mass cycle
When instruments and voices have different parts
16
What is a Palindrome?
An exaggeration of a word (eg. I am literally dying)
A word that can be rearranged into a different word
Bob
A word that is the same forwards and backwards
17
Is Uphayinaphu in the vernacular?
No
Yes
18
What was the Florentine Camerata?
A group of scholars who met to discuss the arts
famous work written by J.S Bach for Orchestra
IDEK
The man who invented the printing press
19
What is a Madrigal?
Bitch Idk
A short instrumental work meant to be performed in church
Polyphonic through-composed setting of a short secular poem
A type of Orange
20
When and where did Leonin Live?
He's still kicking it in Sweden
Paris in the late 12th Century
Vienna in the middle of the 1400's
Rome in the early 13th Century
21
When did Arnold Schoenberg live?
1900-1987
1899-1923
1874-1951
1670-1750
22
Why was Pope Gregory important?
He created Gregorian Chant
He was a pretty cool guy
He invented Polyphony
His actions led to the standardization of chant
23
What is Atonality?
Music that avoids establishing important and central pitches
Music centred around the note A
Music that uses extended techniques
Some weird ass sounding music
24
What is Monody?
A type of melody with lots of leaps
Some kind of STD
A comp. style with a single melodic line and b/c accom.
A type of small gutair
25
When did Vivaldi live?
1684-1750
1460-1540
1678-1741
1820-1930
26
When was the Baroque Era?
1600-1750
1550-1820
1600-1800
1450-1775
27
Musical monologue/soliloquy is
An Aria
A recitative
28
Why do we care about Johann Walter?
He started a religion
He was a prolific organ composer
He wrote 38 settings of chorales arranged for 4-5 voices
29
Isorhythm's use of rhythmic patterns is called what?
tinntinabul
Rhythm
Color
Talea
30
When did Robert Schumann live?
1730-1750
1787-1839
1801-1870
1810-1856
31
When was the Classical Era?
1750-1820
1450-1725
1600-1750
1730-2001
32
What is a theme and variation?
Using multiple themes in a composition
A melody and then variations on the melody
Mozarts Twinkle Twinkle little star
A piece where each time it's played it's slightly different
33
Happy Studying, Good luck and Happy Holidays
:D
:)
34
Why do we care about Handel?
He was a master of counterpoint
He wrote music for profit, therefore, it was usually popular
He wrote about his music frequently
One of first composer whose music never fell out of favour
35
Why do we care about Guillaume de Machaut?
He used 2nds for the first time in the church
He put his name on his work
He composed the first mass cycle (probably)
We don't
36
What is a mensuration symbol
The very first notation of music
The first time signatures
The fuck if I know
basically just frankonian notation
37
What is word-painting?
Face Paint in performance
Literally Painting a word
Making a word fancy cuz it sounds cooler
Use of musical devised to reflect the meaning of the word
38
Why do we care about Claudio Monteverdi and when did he live?
1567-1643, he was a very innovative composer
1777-1829, he wrote many fugues
39
What is a song cycle?
a bicycle for song
A group of lieder meant to be performed together
A type of round/canon
A song that repeats itself
40
When did Mozart live?
400-600
1756-1791
1570-1572
1750-1820
41
What is Sprechstimme?
Stretched time
Literally screaming
Talk-singing
Raptor Screeches
42
What is a Troubadour/Trobairitz?
Polish travelling musicians
Church composers from Notre Dame
French ppl from the 1300ish, made monophonic secular songs
The name for the audience in secular music performances
43
What is contrapuntal?
Music with more than one melodic line
Switching words but not music
A low drum
When the melodic line is in the altos
44
What is it called when voices move in parallel, oblique, contrary and similar motion?
Parallel Organum
Florid Organum
Free Organum
45
Repeat after me songs are an example of responsorial music (kind of)
false
True
46
What is a movement anyway?
self-contained part of a musical composition
A dance move
a section of music
47
When did Chopin live?
1670-1750
1810-1849
1800-1888
1910-1988
48
Musical Dialogue is
A recitative
An Aria
49
What is Ars Nova
The sociopolitical movement that stemmed from the German War
A fancy art movement
A type of flute
1300's art movement where ppl broke from musical tradition
50
What is Ternary From?
ACDC
ABA
AB DC al fine
ABCBA
51
What is the order of Mass Ordinary?
Credo, Gloria, Kyrie, Sanctus, Angus Dei
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Santus, Angus Deli
Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Santus, Agnus Dei
52
When was the romantic period?
1450-1600
1750-1820
1820-1900
2001-2005
53
What does idiomatic mean?
referring to an idiot
A very simple work
In the style of a particular period, individual, or group
A personal composition
54
Why do we care about Robert Schumann?
He was married to Clara Schumann
He wrote lots of piano music
He pioneered a-tonal music
He was the founding member of music journal
55
What does polyphonic mean?
Many sounds simultaneously
One melody/voice
56
What is a Sonata (in the 17th century)?
Literally any music
My death
Work for 1 or 2 melody instruments with continuo & sections
Solo with orchestral acc.
57
What is retrograde?
Moving upsidedown and backwards
Your grades but in the 1980's
Moving backwards
Moving upsidedown
58
What is Lied?
A secular vocal music in German
Music written in the style of traditional Brazilian dance
An Irish character piece
Biblical Austrian Music
59
Where are Multi Movement instrumental works supposed to be played?
Churches
Small Chamber Settings
Concert halls
On a mountain
60
What is a character piece?
Work written for a person
A work that makes you have lots of emotions
Work with a descriptive title that suggests a mood or scene
A work where the players dress up as characters
61
What is nationalism?
Promoting the interested of a nation
Being apart of multiple nations
Being very patriotic
62
What is a Trio Sonata?
A sonata with three melody instruments
A sonata with three instruments
A sonata with three parts
a three-movement sonata
63
Who was Nicholas Yonge?
The man who invented the philosophers stone
Invented the violin
The guy who fueled madrigal composition in England
A popular English madrigal composer
64
What is a Cantata?
A short, unstaged bible opera for church
Like an Opera but not an Opera
A musical about the bible
A long, unstaged, bible opera for performance
65
Why do we care about Thomas Weelkes?
He was known for madrigals and church music
He was besties with Mark Luther
An English poet
He invented madrigals
66
When did Joeseph Haydn live?
1556-1643
1732-1809
1750-1820
1696-1750
67
When was the Renaissance Era?
1300-1754
Never, it never happened
1450-1600
1500-1650
68
What is it called when there is a 'drone' voice below the melody?
Florid Organum
Free Organum
Parallel Organum
69
When did George Crumb live?
1869-1938
1900-2001
1980-2010
1929-present
70
When was the 20th Century music era?
1820-1900
1450-1600
1900-2000
1900-present
71
Who the hell is Giulio Caccini?
The dude who invented monody
The guy who invented the piano
Galileos Dad
The moustache man
72
Why do we care about Schoenberg?
He pioneered atonality in music
He took a Neo-classical route to his composition
He was a Russian poet
He was a prolific piano composer
73
One of these things is not like the other
Prelude
Minuet
Gigue
Allemande
74
Isorhythm's use of melodic patterns is called what?
Melody
tinntinabul
Color
Talea
75
What's a Neume?
An early form of musical notation
A delicious snack
A type of Rhythm
A medieval Trumpet
76
Why do we care about Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina?
He invented the organ
He became a model composer for the church
He saved polyphony in the church (probably)
He used instruments in Mass
77
What is Franconian Notation?
A type of figured bass line
Using note shape to indicate note length
A type of choral music that was written
The first ever music that was written down
78
What is a Ritornello?
A type of pasta
A short instrumental passage in a vocal work
When the violin doubles the voices
When the music becomes slower
79
What is that?
A Piano
An early Piano
An Organ
A Harpsichord
80
Why do we care about Martin Luther?
He was a renowned Organ composer
He composed a butt ton of chorales
He started a war
He pissed off the Catholic Church
81
What is a mode of limited transposition?
Transposing to vastly different keys
Never transposing in ur composition
Not using major or minor scales
When u transpose something but it still has the same notes
82
Why do we care about Arcangelo Corelli?
He invented the piano
1st composer whose instrumental works where studied
He wrote a book on composition
He was a leading composer of Sonatas and Concertos
83
Why do we care about Josquin des Prez?
He pioneered the symphony
He invented the organ
He had a rad hat
He wrote polyphonic vocal compositions
84
What is a fugue?
A type of choral composition
The thing Bach is known for
A type of ornament performed on pipe organs
Counterpoint type where voices enter successively w subject
85
What is an imitation style composition?
Varying the melody
Thinking of a specific person when writing a musical work
Repetition of a melody after 1st appearance in diff. voice
Music written in the style of a different composition
86
What is a rhythmic mode?
A set of long and short rhythms in patterns
who even knows
Music written to a specific dance
A way of notating rhythm
87
Why is George Crumb important?
He wrote medieval music in the modern era
He invented atonality
He's not
He explored non-traditional means of composing/performing
88
Why do we care about Mozart?
His music was rlly good
He wrote a lot of music
He was a child prodigy
89
The order of the movements are slow, fast, slow, fast
True
false
90
What does strophic mean?
It has verses
It is long
It has a strong sense of meter
It has instruments and voice
91
When did Arcangelo Corelli live?
He did not
1653-1713
1750-1450
1633-1701
92
Which part of Mass Ordinary is
not
sung in Latin?
Agnus Dei
Credo
Santus
Kyrie
93
What is Basso Continuo?
An early string bass
Accompaniment where players improvised over a figured bass
A continued Bass line that never stops
A type of instrumental music
94
What is a motet?
A polyphonic vocal composition with sacred Latin text
A dance
Part of the mass cycle
A Monophonic flute-choral comp. with sacred Spanish text
95
Cori Sepzzati means separated choir
True
False
96
What is the L’estro Armonico?
A Spanish harmonica
the reason I cry
A type of composition for violin and bassoon
A collection of concertos for orchestra published in 1711
97
When did Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre live?
1665-1729
1750-1820
1540-1629
3001-3079
98
When did Schubert live?
1706-1727
1800-1856
1007-1206
1797 - 1828
99
What is stylized dance music?
Music written in the style of dance but not for dance
Extended technique where u dance and play at the same time
Folk music
Music written for dance performances
100
What is Rondo Form?
Music composed in the style of Tibetian Dance
Multi-part with recurring refrain alternated diff. material
A musical rodeo
A dance style in duple meter
101
What is Cantus Firmus Style?
When tenor line of the music is borrowed from another music
Using a separated choir
When the alto line is different than the rest of the music
A piece of music with a firm tempo
102
Is Pineapple in the vernacular?
No
Yes
103
Why do we care about Leonin?
He invented the pipe organ
He was renowned for composing with polyphony
He created the Musica Echiracdia
He invented Isorhythm
104
Why do we care about guido of Arezzo?
He invented the harpsichord
He invented polyphony
He invented notation
He invented plainchant
105
When did Oliver Messiaen live?
1976-2017
1923-2010
1908-1992
1750-1822
106
What is Avant-garde?
A term for French 20th century composers
Meaning keep before
What they shout in fencing before a match
Broadly applied to anyone who departs from convention
107
Why do we care about Messiaen?
He was an organist and influential French composer
He invented the modern Piano
He rlly liked birds
He wrote song of the whale
108
Why do we care about Schubert?
He's a scary German man (@Andrea)
We don't
He was a very prolific composer
He changed the world of lieder
109
Mass Proper does not change text based on the calendar year
False
True
110
What is a Chorale?
Unison, unacc., metric, rhymed, strophic music in vernacular
Secular Music
Any song that's not in Latin
Polyphonic performance music in Latin meant for Mass
111
Why was Haydn important?
He created the first symphony
He was creator of the fundamental genres of classical music
He wasn't that important
He influenced a lot of other composers
112
Why do we care about Giovanni Gabrieli?
He published 680 chorales
known for polychoral writing combining voice and instruments
He wrote secular choral works
Worked for a fancy cathedral ∴ had the chance to write a lot
113
When was the Medieval Era?
1450-1600
1750-1820
400-1450
1000-1550
114
What is an extended performance technique (according to Michelle)?
Crying
Playing an unusually long instrument
Unconventional methods of playing or singing
Extremely expressive performers
115
The Sonata has 3 movements
True
False
116
What was the Seconda Practica?
Term for when a musician is asked the play 2 instruments
Giovanni Maria Artusi's clap back
A reminder to practice more but in Latin
This book about music that blew everybody's mind
117
Mass Ordinary Does not change texts based on the calendar year
True
False
118
Why do we care about J.S Bach?
He wrote a lot of secular music
He wrote a butt ton of music
He was a master of fugues and counterpoint
119
What were the reformation and counter-reformation?
A boom in musical instrument technology
Books of music published in 1450
A new approach to music and the response from the public
M.Luther shade with church and their response to his shit
120
What is a requiem?
A choir piece about Christmas
A stylized set of dance music
A type of bass flute
A mass for the souls of the dead
121
When was the piano invented?
1623
1455
1709
1921
122
What is sonata-allegro form?
A three-movement piece where all the movements are Allegro
The first movement in concertos
A fast sonata
exposition, development, and recapitulation
123
When did Bach live?
1650-1730
1685 - 1750
1500-1750
1770-1825
124
What is modified strophic form?
Music with verses
Early type of theme and variation
Verse-Chorus form but chorus is slightly different each time
Music with choruses
125
What is a mazurka?
An early French horn
A type of piano music
Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo
A type of movement in a Sonata
126
Don't forget about the research part of the exam!
I'm screwed anyway
Oh shit u right
I got this, don't worry
127
Why do we care about Chopin?
He was a virtuosic piano player
He was the 'poet of the piano'
He invented the piano
Because Michelle Boyd said he's important
128
When did Caccini live?
1500-1750
1820-1902
1550-1618
1500-1576
129
What is modernism?
Movement in art music composed in 1st half of 20th century
Banksy
Name for technology boom in the 1940's
Composers sought something new while continuing tradition
130
Discant is when the parts move in nearly equal Rhythm
True
False
131
What is Direct performance style?
Call and response
Drone with Melody
Sung together
Many Melodies Sung together
132
Who was Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe?
the inventor of the piano
Composer of Erlking
Coined the phrase "Cometh then Goethe away"
A German Poet
133
What is a Melisma?
Multiple notes on one syllable
One note per syllable
134
What is a sacred concerto?
Music written for solo instrument and small group
Instrumental music about the bible
Any music that combines voices and instruments
A type of trumpet music
135
Why was the Catholic Church so important to music at this time?
They got the power
All of the music had to be non-secular at the time
Everyone was Catholic at the time
They got the funds
136
What is a non-retrogradable rhythm?
A music palindrome
A rhythm that can't time travel
When similar rhythms are played at the same time
A rhythm that is played forwards then backwards
137
What does Monophonic mean?
Many Parts/Melodies
One Part/Melody
A Round
One Voice
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What is Musica Enchiriadis?
The first surviving attempt at Polyphony
A yummy Mexican snack
A Cathedral dedicated to music
A performance technique
