Western Music CAS

Cantus Firmus, Chanson and Choral were all popular styles in the

A single motif dominates the whole composition. Imitation and ornamentation are used.

The Oratorio was

 Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei are the five parts of a

Music in the romantic period was only about romance and love

Sonata form was introduced in the modern period

■Baroque comes from Portuguese word barroco, meaning ‘misshapen pearl’.

Frequent use of primary triads, arpeggios and modulations to closely related keys

Tempo changes more frequent, rubato (played freely/pushing and pulling the tempo) often employed

⍜ Inclusion of chromaticism and dissonances ⍜Modulations to unrelated key signatures.

Josquin des Pres, Palestrina and Thomas Tallis were composers of

⍜ Structure and form far less important than the emotional content.

Music in the romantic period could be nationalistic/ show a love of the composer's country

Haydn was a composer in the Classical Era

Brass instruments were natural and without valves in the Baroque Period

Polyphony was widely used in the

■Terraced Dynamics – where the dynamic level is either loud or soft, and there are minimal crescendos.

Renaissance means 're-birth'

Few tempo changes within one movement, strong pulse, always steady and controlled

■Using the new harmonic system (major and minor scales). ■Modulations to very closely related keys.