What does idiomatic mean?

In the style of a particular period, individual, or group

Why was the Catholic Church so important to music at this time?

They got the funds, They got the power

Music that avoids establishing important and central pitches

What is a mode of limited transposition?

When u transpose something but it still has the same notes

What is a Sonata (in the 17th century)?

Work for 1 or 2 melody instruments with continuo & sections

What is a Palindrome?

A word that is the same forwards and backwards, Bob

What is word-painting?

Use of musical devised to reflect the meaning of the word, Making a word fancy cuz it sounds cooler

A comp. style with a single melodic line and b/c accom.

What is Expressionism?

The scream (Painting), Music avoids tradition 2 show feels through exaggeration

What is figured bass?

Where numerals indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord

What is Tintinnabuli?

Begins with diatonic mel. other parts sing from tonic triad, A composition style developed by Arvo Pärt

What is an Antiphonal Performance style?

Played by two groups, Call and Response

What is the L’estro Armonico?

A collection of concertos for orchestra published in 1711

What is a theme and variation?

A melody and then variations on the melody, Mozarts Twinkle Twinkle little star

What is sonata-allegro form?

The first movement in concertos, exposition, development, and recapitulation

What is Concertato Style?

When instruments and voices have different parts

What is a rhythmic mode?

A set of long and short rhythms in patterns

Why do we care about Leonin?

He was renowned for composing with polyphony

What is Musica Enchiriadis?

The first surviving attempt at Polyphony

Why do we care about Schubert?

He's a scary German man (@Andrea), He changed the world of lieder, He was a very prolific composer

What is a movement anyway?

self-contained part of a musical composition, a section of music

Why is George Crumb important?

He explored non-traditional means of composing/performing

What is contrapuntal?

Music with more than one melodic line

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1
What does idiomatic mean?
In the style of a particular period, individual, or group
referring to an idiot
A very simple work
A personal composition
2
Why was the Catholic Church so important to music at this time?
Everyone was Catholic at the time
They got the funds
They got the power
All of the music had to be non-secular at the time
3
Which part of Mass Ordinary is not sung in Latin?
Santus
Credo
Kyrie
Agnus Dei
4
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
5
Happy Studying, Good luck and Happy Holidays
:)
:D
6
Who the hell is Giulio Caccini?
The moustache man
Galileos Dad
The dude who invented monody
The guy who invented the piano
7
When did Schubert live?
1706-1727
1800-1856
1007-1206
1797 - 1828
8
What is a mode of limited transposition?
Never transposing in ur composition
When u transpose something but it still has the same notes
Not using major or minor scales
Transposing to vastly different keys
9
What is Direct performance style?
Drone with Melody
Sung together
Call and response
Many Melodies Sung together
10
What is a Sonata (in the 17th century)?
Literally any music
Work for 1 or 2 melody instruments with continuo & sections
My death
Solo with orchestral acc.
11
When did Bach live?
1500-1750
1650-1730
1685 - 1750
1770-1825
12
The Sonata has 3 movements
True
False
13
What is a Palindrome?
A word that is the same forwards and backwards
An exaggeration of a word (eg. I am literally dying)
Bob
A word that can be rearranged into a different word
14
When did Oliver Messiaen live?
1976-2017
1750-1822
1923-2010
1908-1992
15
What is word-painting?
Use of musical devised to reflect the meaning of the word
Face Paint in performance
Literally Painting a word
Making a word fancy cuz it sounds cooler
16
What is Monody?
Some kind of STD
A comp. style with a single melodic line and b/c accom.
A type of small gutair
A type of melody with lots of leaps
17
What is Expressionism?
Music that gives you feels
Expressive music
The scream (Painting)
Music avoids tradition 2 show feels through exaggeration
18
What is figured bass?
Where numerals indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord
Another name for the tenor line
A fancy name for a fancy string bass
A type of basso continuo
19
What is Tintinnabuli?
When bells are used in music
Begins with diatonic mel. other parts sing from tonic triad
A type of metal percussion instrument
A composition style developed by Arvo Pärt
20
When did George Crumb live?
1929-present
1980-2010
1869-1938
1900-2001
21
What is an Antiphonal Performance style?
Melody sung in parallel fifths
More than one voice singing
Played by two groups
Call and Response
22
What is it called when there is a 'drone' voice below the melody?
Free Organum
Parallel Organum
Florid Organum
23
One of these things is not like the other
Prelude
Minuet
Allemande
Gigue
24
What is the L’estro Armonico?
the reason I cry
A collection of concertos for orchestra published in 1711
A Spanish harmonica
A type of composition for violin and bassoon
25
Is Pineapple in the vernacular?
Yes
No
26
What is a theme and variation?
A melody and then variations on the melody
A piece where each time it's played it's slightly different
Using multiple themes in a composition
Mozarts Twinkle Twinkle little star
27
What is sonata-allegro form?
The first movement in concertos
A fast sonata
A three-movement piece where all the movements are Allegro
exposition, development, and recapitulation
28
When did Handel live?
1685 - 1759
1663-1750
1820-1910
1540-1620
29
What is Concertato Style?
When more than one instrument is used in the mass cycle
When instruments and voices have different parts
A musical work featuring an instrument
Divided choirs
30
What is a rhythmic mode?
A way of notating rhythm
who even knows
A set of long and short rhythms in patterns
Music written to a specific dance
31
When did Chopin live?
1910-1988
1800-1888
1670-1750
1810-1849
32
Why do we care about Leonin?
He invented Isorhythm
He created the Musica Echiracdia
He was renowned for composing with polyphony
He invented the pipe organ
33
When was the Medieval Era?
1450-1600
1750-1820
400-1450
1000-1550
34
What is Ternary From?
ABA
ABCBA
ACDC
AB DC al fine
35
When did Robert Schumann live?
1810-1856
1801-1870
1787-1839
1730-1750
36
Cori Sepzzati means separated choir
True
False
37
When was the Classical Era?
1600-1750
1750-1820
1730-2001
1450-1725
38
What is Musica Enchiriadis?
A yummy Mexican snack
The first surviving attempt at Polyphony
A performance technique
A Cathedral dedicated to music
39
Why do we care about Schubert?
He's a scary German man (@Andrea)
We don't
He changed the world of lieder
He was a very prolific composer
40
When did Joeseph Haydn live?
1732-1809
1556-1643
1750-1820
1696-1750
41
What is retrograde?
Moving upsidedown
Moving upsidedown and backwards
Moving backwards
Your grades but in the 1980's
42
What is it called when the harmonizers sing the chant a perfect 5th below the original pitch?
Parallel Organum
Free Organum
Florid Organum
43
What does Monophonic mean?
Many Parts/Melodies
One Part/Melody
A Round
One Voice
44
Musical monologue/soliloquy is
An Aria
A recitative
45
When was the piano invented?
1921
1623
1709
1455
46
What is a movement anyway?
A dance move
self-contained part of a musical composition
a section of music
47
Silent Night is through-composed
True
False
48
Why is George Crumb important?
He explored non-traditional means of composing/performing
He wrote medieval music in the modern era
He's not
He invented atonality
49
When did Arnold Schoenberg live?
1874-1951
1900-1987
1670-1750
1899-1923
50
What is contrapuntal?
Switching words but not music
When the melodic line is in the altos
Music with more than one melodic line
A low drum
51
What is that?
A Piano
An early Piano
An Organ
A Harpsichord
52
When did Caccini live?
1820-1902
1500-1576
1500-1750
1550-1618
53
The order of the movements are slow, fast, slow, fast
True
false
54
What is a suite?
Bach's favourite Candy
A set of stylized dances meant to be performed together
A set of chamber music works performed in an Opera house
A type of German folk music
55
What is a Trio Sonata?
A sonata with three instruments
A sonata with three parts
a three-movement sonata
A sonata with three melody instruments
56
When did Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre live?
3001-3079
1665-1729
1540-1629
1750-1820
57
What is stylized dance music?
Extended technique where u dance and play at the same time
Music written for dance performances
Music written in the style of dance but not for dance
Folk music
58
What is modernism?
Banksy
Name for technology boom in the 1940's
Movement in art music composed in 1st half of 20th century
Composers sought something new while continuing tradition
59
When was the romantic period?
1450-1600
1750-1820
2001-2005
1820-1900
60
Who was Nicholas Yonge?
Invented the violin
The man who invented the philosophers stone
The guy who fueled madrigal composition in England
A popular English madrigal composer
61
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
62
Where are Multi Movement instrumental works supposed to be played?
Small Chamber Settings
Concert halls
On a mountain
Churches
63
When was the 20th Century music era?
1820-1900
1900-present
1900-2000
1450-1600
64
What is it called when voices move in parallel, oblique, contrary and similar motion?
Florid Organum
Parallel Organum
Free Organum
65
What is a motet?
A Monophonic flute-choral comp. with sacred Spanish text
Part of the mass cycle
A polyphonic vocal composition with sacred Latin text
A dance
66
Why do we care about Guillaume de Machaut?
He put his name on his work
He composed the first mass cycle (probably)
We don't
He used 2nds for the first time in the church
67
What does strophic mean?
It has verses
It has a strong sense of meter
It is long
It has instruments and voice
68
What was the Florentine Camerata?
IDEK
famous work written by J.S Bach for Orchestra
A group of scholars who met to discuss the arts
The man who invented the printing press
69
What is a sacred concerto?
Music written for solo instrument and small group
A type of trumpet music
Any music that combines voices and instruments
Instrumental music about the bible
70
Who was Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe?
Composer of Erlking
the inventor of the piano
A German Poet
Coined the phrase "Cometh then Goethe away"
71
What is a requiem?
A stylized set of dance music
A mass for the souls of the dead
A type of bass flute
A choir piece about Christmas
72
What is the order of Mass Ordinary?
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Santus, Angus Deli
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Santus, Agnus Dei
Credo, Gloria, Kyrie, Sanctus, Angus Dei
Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
73
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
74
Why do we care about J.S Bach?
He was a master of fugues and counterpoint
He wrote a butt ton of music
He wrote a lot of secular music
75
What is a mensuration symbol
The very first notation of music
The fuck if I know
basically just frankonian notation
The first time signatures
76
What was the Seconda Practica?
A reminder to practice more but in Latin
This book about music that blew everybody's mind
Term for when a musician is asked the play 2 instruments
Giovanni Maria Artusi's clap back
77
When was the Baroque Era?
1550-1820
1600-1750
1600-1800
1450-1775
78
Why do we care about Thomas Weelkes?
He was known for madrigals and church music
An English poet
He was besties with Mark Luther
He invented madrigals
79
What is Sprechstimme?
Raptor Screeches
Stretched time
Literally screaming
Talk-singing
80
Why was Haydn important?
He was creator of the fundamental genres of classical music
He created the first symphony
He wasn't that important
He influenced a lot of other composers
81
What is an extended performance technique (according to Michelle)?
Unconventional methods of playing or singing
Playing an unusually long instrument
Extremely expressive performers
Crying
82
Mass Ordinary Does not change texts based on the calendar year
False
True
83
What is Franconian Notation?
A type of figured bass line
The first ever music that was written down
Using note shape to indicate note length
A type of choral music that was written
84
What is Cantus Firmus Style?
Using a separated choir
A piece of music with a firm tempo
When tenor line of the music is borrowed from another music
When the alto line is different than the rest of the music
85
Why do we care about Chopin?
He was a virtuosic piano player
He invented the piano
He was the 'poet of the piano'
Because Michelle Boyd said he's important
86
Isorhythm's use of melodic patterns is called what?
Color
tinntinabul
Melody
Talea
87
Why do we care about Johann Walter?
He wrote 38 settings of chorales arranged for 4-5 voices
He was a prolific organ composer
He started a religion
88
Why do we care about Mozart?
He was a child prodigy
He wrote a lot of music
His music was rlly good
89
What is a Cantata?
A musical about the bible
A short, unstaged bible opera for church
A long, unstaged, bible opera for performance
Like an Opera but not an Opera
90
What is a Melisma?
Multiple notes on one syllable
One note per syllable
91
What is modified strophic form?
Music with verses
Music with choruses
Early type of theme and variation
Verse-Chorus form but chorus is slightly different each time
92
What is Avant-garde?
Meaning keep before
Broadly applied to anyone who departs from convention
A term for French 20th century composers
What they shout in fencing before a match
93
What did Elisabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre do?
She wrote a very famous requiem
Played the harpsichord like a madwoman
Published a book of harpsichord suites
Was the first-ever female composer
94
What is a mazurka?
A type of movement in a Sonata
An early French horn
Polish folk dance in triple meter, usually at a lively tempo
A type of piano music
95
Why do we care about Giovanni Gabrieli?
He published 680 chorales
known for polychoral writing combining voice and instruments
Worked for a fancy cathedral ∴ had the chance to write a lot
He wrote secular choral works
96
What is a Madrigal?
Polyphonic through-composed setting of a short secular poem
Bitch Idk
A short instrumental work meant to be performed in church
A type of Orange
97
Why do we care about Arcangelo Corelli?
He wrote a book on composition
He invented the piano
He was a leading composer of Sonatas and Concertos
1st composer whose instrumental works where studied
98
What is contrafactum?
A type of low clarinet
When the melody is in the bass
Changing the text but not the music
Changing the music but not the text
99
Musical Dialogue is
An Aria
A recitative
100
What's that?
A lute
A Theorbo
The good kush
An old guitar
101
What is Ars Nova
A type of flute
The sociopolitical movement that stemmed from the German War
A fancy art movement
1300's art movement where ppl broke from musical tradition
102
What is a Chorale?
Unison, unacc., metric, rhymed, strophic music in vernacular
Polyphonic performance music in Latin meant for Mass
Secular Music
Any song that's not in Latin
103
What is a Troubadour/Trobairitz?
Polish travelling musicians
The name for the audience in secular music performances
Church composers from Notre Dame
French ppl from the 1300ish, made monophonic secular songs
104
What is Lied?
Biblical Austrian Music
An Irish character piece
A secular vocal music in German
Music written in the style of traditional Brazilian dance
105
When did Arcangelo Corelli live?
He did not
1653-1713
1633-1701
1750-1450
106
Why do we care about guido of Arezzo?
He invented plainchant
He invented polyphony
He invented the harpsichord
He invented notation
107
Why do we care about Josquin des Prez?
He wrote polyphonic vocal compositions
He pioneered the symphony
He invented the organ
He had a rad hat
108
What is an Oratorio?
Like an Opera but not an Opera
A long, unstaged, bible opera for performance
A musical about the bible
A short, unstaged bible opera for church
109
Is Uphayinaphu in the vernacular?
No
Yes
110
What is tempo rubato?
Slower than Allegro, faster than Adagio
Approximately 103bpm
Robbed Time
Taking liberties with the tempo for expressive purposes
111
When did Mozart live?
1570-1572
400-600
1756-1791
1750-1820
112
Why do we care about Robert Schumann?
He wrote lots of piano music
He was married to Clara Schumann
He pioneered a-tonal music
He was the founding member of music journal
113
What is Rondo Form?
Music composed in the style of Tibetian Dance
Multi-part with recurring refrain alternated diff. material
A dance style in duple meter
A musical rodeo
114
When and where did Leonin Live?
Vienna in the middle of the 1400's
He's still kicking it in Sweden
Rome in the early 13th Century
Paris in the late 12th Century
115
When did Vivaldi live?
1684-1750
1460-1540
1678-1741
1820-1930
116
What is Basso Continuo?
Accompaniment where players improvised over a figured bass
A type of instrumental music
A continued Bass line that never stops
An early string bass
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Why do we care about Martin Luther?
He started a war
He composed a butt ton of chorales
He was a renowned Organ composer
He pissed off the Catholic Church
118
Why was Pope Gregory important?
He was a pretty cool guy
He created Gregorian Chant
His actions led to the standardization of chant
He invented Polyphony
119
What were the reformation and counter-reformation?
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
A boom in musical instrument technology
120
What is nationalism?
Promoting the interested of a nation
Being very patriotic
Being apart of multiple nations
121
When was the Renaissance Era?
1300-1754
1450-1600
Never, it never happened
1500-1650
122
Why do we care about Schoenberg?
He took a Neo-classical route to his composition
He was a prolific piano composer
He was a Russian poet
He pioneered atonality in music
123
What's a Neume?
A type of Rhythm
A medieval Trumpet
A delicious snack
An early form of musical notation
124
What is a non-retrogradable rhythm?
A rhythm that can't time travel
A music palindrome
When similar rhythms are played at the same time
A rhythm that is played forwards then backwards
125
What is a song cycle?
A group of lieder meant to be performed together
A song that repeats itself
a bicycle for song
A type of round/canon
126
Why do we care about Messiaen?
He invented the modern Piano
He rlly liked birds
He wrote song of the whale
He was an organist and influential French composer
127
What is a fugue?
The thing Bach is known for
A type of ornament performed on pipe organs
Counterpoint type where voices enter successively w subject
A type of choral composition
128
Don't forget about the research part of the exam!
Oh shit u right
I got this, don't worry
I'm screwed anyway
129
What does polyphonic mean?
Many sounds simultaneously
One melody/voice
130
Why do we care about Handel?
He wrote music for profit, therefore, it was usually popular
He was a master of counterpoint
One of first composer whose music never fell out of favour
He wrote about his music frequently
131
Why do we care about Giovanni Pierluigi Palestrina?
He invented the organ
He saved polyphony in the church (probably)
He became a model composer for the church
He used instruments in Mass
132
Who invented the Piano?
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bartolomeo Cristofori
J.S Bach
Arthur Dent
133
Mass Proper does not change text based on the calendar year
True
False
134
Discant is when the parts move in nearly equal Rhythm
False
True
135
Isorhythm's use of rhythmic patterns is called what?
Color
Rhythm
tinntinabul
Talea
136
What is a Ritornello?
When the violin doubles the voices
When the music becomes slower
A type of pasta
A short instrumental passage in a vocal work
137
Repeat after me songs are an example of responsorial music (kind of)
false
True
138
What is a character piece?
Work with a descriptive title that suggests a mood or scene
A work that makes you have lots of emotions
Work written for a person
A work where the players dress up as characters

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