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Sacred Music

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Religious

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Secular

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Earthier

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Different Musical Textures

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Monophonic
Monophonic w/ Accompaniment
Homophonic
Polyphonic

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Monophonic

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One sound

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Monophonic w/ Accompaniment

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Solo voice with musical accompaniment

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Homophonic

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Same sounding

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Polyphonic

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Many sounding

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Where can monophonic sounds be heard?

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In a chant

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What is the earliest known music?

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A chant

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What languages were Gregorian Chants sung in?

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Latin

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What are the musical characteristics of a Gregorian chant?

Texture and Sound

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Texture: Monophonic
Melismic

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Melisma

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One sound with many syllables

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Motet

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Songs with words

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What was music making seen as in the Romantic Period?

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A social activity

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What are the characteristics of a lied?

Texture and Lyrics

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Texture: Solo Voice w/ Piano
Text from poem

Solo Voice or Monophonic w/ Accompaniment

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A song cycle is an adjacent form of what song form?

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A suite

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Who wrote Erlkonig?

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Franz Schubert

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Who wrote Gonnaelaid?

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Fanny Mendelssohn

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English Madrigal

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Dramatic ideas through song

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What are the characteristics of a madrigal?

Texture and Sound

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Texture: a capella
Mixed voices (male and female)

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Expressionism

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Rejects beauty and embraces ugliness of people and emotions

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Who figured out how to create pitch and rhythm?

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Leonin and Perotin

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Cantus Firmus Chant

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Abandoned Gregorian Chant

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What are the characteristics of a sacred motet?

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Texture: Polyphonic
Delivers “the word”

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Who created Ave Maria?
Josquin Des Prez
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What was Mozart's Requiem Mass?
A musical representation of the afterlife
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Cantata
A work for choir, solo vocalists, and orchestra whose texts, secular OR sacred, can come from a variety of sources
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How would Baroque Period operas be characterized?
Mythological and Tragic
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Recitative
"Song Speech" - Pseudo-spoken Sparsely accompanied
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Aria
Driving home the point Accompanied by a full orchestra
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What are the similarities and differences between an opera and an oratorio?
Similarities: Both have recitative and aria, Tell stories Differences: Operas act stories out, Oratorio just tells a story
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What are some ways they dealt with needing sopranos but not allowing women in the art form?
The invention of Castrato Soprano
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How did Mozart evolve the art of opera?
Mozart moved opera away from Greek tragedies and want ed to focus on comedies
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What are the two categories of opera?
Opera Seria Opera Buffa
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Opera Seria
Serious Opera
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Opera Buffa
Comedic Opera
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Trouser Role
Women portraying a young man
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Verismo
Truthful/Realistic Opera
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Who wrote the opera Carmen?
George Bizet
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Exoticism
What another culture might look like from the outside
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Who wrote La Boheme?
Giacomo Piuccini
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Leitmotif
A recurrent musical idea, linked to a specific, character, location, or objects
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Ballet
Drama expressed through dance
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What are some ballets written by Tchaikovsky?
The Nutcracker Swan Lake Sleeping Beauty
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What was the Ballet Russe?
A travelling ballet company
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What are some ballets written by Stravinsky?
The Firebird Petrouchka The Rite of Spring
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What are some ballets written by Adam Copland?
Rodeo Billy the Kid Applachian Spring
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Who choreograpghed Appalachian Spring?
Martha Graham
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What are the three forms of Program Music?
Symphonic Sound Poem/Tone Poem Program Suite - Symphonic Suite Program Symphony - Concert Overture
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When was Program Music at the height of its popularity?
The Romantic Period
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Who wrote Pictures at an Exhibition?
Modest Mussorgsky
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Fixed Idea **or** Idee Fixe
Unifies 5 movements
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What opera is used in "An Episode in the Life of an Artist"? | Bonus: Who was it written by?
Dies Irae | Hector Berlioz
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Symphonic **or** Tone Poem
Single movement work intended to **represent a story, drama, or concept sound**
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Who wrote Scherezade?
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Who wrote The Pines of Rome?
Ottorino Repighi
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Who wrote an American in Paris?
George Gershwin
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Who wrote the Grand Canyon Suite?
Ferde Grofe
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What does the movement _Cloudburst_ in the Grand Canyon Suite represent?
A storm rolling through
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Who wrote The Planets?
Gustav Holst
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Who wrote the Metropolis Symphony?
Michael Daughtery
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What is the Metropolis Symphony about?
Superman
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What is the purpose of film music?
Heighten emotion Support the Story Establish setting/period
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What can a Main Title Sequence capture?
Frame and Foreshadowing Sets tone for movie | Overature Equivalent
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What can an End Credits Sequence capture?
Movie Review | Medley or Symphonic Suite
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Underscore music
Intended for audience to heighten experience
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Source music
Experienced by characters on screen part of the action | Eg. Radios, Bands, Club ## Footnote Some source music could phase into underscore music in many different movies like **biopics**

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