Listening Test Flashcards
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Dufay, Nuper Rosarum Flores
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- Motet (short piece of sacred choral music)
- Composed for the consecration of florence’s cathedral ‘Santa Maria del Fiore’
- Composed in 1436
- Begins with a duet between two upper voices before the entrance of the cantus firmus
- The cantus firmus is doubled reflecting the ‘dome within a dome’
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Josquin, Ave Maria
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- Motet
- renaissance period (late 1400’s)
- Four voice choir
- Acapella
- Vocal line is a rhymed poem to the virgin Mary (musical phrase paralleled to text)
- 4 voice polyphony
- composed during the composer’s service at a french/northern Italian court.
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Handel Messiah, Hallelujah Chorus
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- Oratorio
- Composed in 1741
- 260 pages long
- First performed in 1742 in Dublin
- Wasn’t performed in London until 1749
- Text for Halellujah comes from the book of revelation in he New Testament
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Handel- Zadok the Priest
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- composed 1727
- composed for the coronation of King George the 2nd of England
- Has been performed at every coronation since
- Baroque period piece
- Contains a six-part choir singing ‘God save the King’
- The word ‘alleluia’ is accompanied by semiquavers to contrast
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Haydn- String Quartet in Bb Major, op 76, no. 4 ‘Sunrise’, Mvt. 1
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- Composed 1797
- First appeared in Vienna, then in it;’s final form in London.
- The final quartet Haydn Composed
- The opening of movt. 1 contains a 5 not phrase that is repeated throughout the piece. It’s shiny timbre reflects the sunrise name.
- Published 1799
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Mozart Symphony NO. 41 in C Major, ‘Jupiter’, Mvt. 4
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- composed 1788
- colloquially known as Jupiter since the early 19th century
- the last symphony he composed
- A post-modernist piece
- Fuses sonata with fugue
- Contains a 4 note repeated motif - notes C D F and E
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J.C. Bach, Sinfonia in G Minor, OP. 6 no. 6, Mvt. 1
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- composed in the 1760’s
- in a minor key
- contains ‘storm and stress’
- influenced the symphonies of mozart
- 2 oboes, 2 horns, strings and basso continuo
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Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique
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- composed 1830
- revised 1831
- published 1845
- Rèveries Passions is the name of the first movement
- reflects Berlioz’s love obsession with Harriet Smithson
- ideè fixe present in 1st mvt
- His most famous work
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Schoenberg, Variations for Orchestra
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- completed 1928
- neo-classical in style
- utilises a 12-tone system
- composed in Berlin
- includes 12 variations
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Bloch - Concerto Grosso no. 1
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- composed 1925
- for strings and piano
- composed in the height of neo-classicism but has modern and romantic influence
- finale is a fugue
- 5 voices with staggered entries
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Shostakovich - Symphony NO. 5, Mvt 4
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- in D minor
- completed 1937
- first performed 1937
- for strings and wind
- most popular work
- Western listenings were overwhelmed by it
- Stalin approved despite having banned Shostakovich’s opera in 1936 for it’s anti-communist themes
- called ‘the symphony of socialism’
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Milhaud - La creation du Monde
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- composed 1923
- op. 81
- orchestrated for strings and wind
- 1st performed in Paris in 1923 to a ballet
- Baroque form with jazz prelude and fugue influence
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Debussy - Pagodes from Estampes
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- composed 1903
- a piano work
- proposed a new approach to piano
- influenced by oriental music, particularly javanese gamelan
- composed 4 years after Debussy witnessed the performance of a Javanese ensemble
- European form structurally and harmonically
- Integrated oriental music into Debussy’s style
- represents gamelan because complex melodies exist over simplistic gongs
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David Fanshawe - African Sanctus
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- composed 1971
- contains Prayer
- Kyrie Eleison, Christe Eleison, Kyrie Eleison (Lord have and Christ have mercy)
- begins with the Kyrie a solo call to prayer
- -draws on rock opera, African traditional music and renaissance polyphony
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Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
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- A work of minimalism
- composed between 1974 and 1976
- first performed in 1976
- 11 chords highlighted throughout the piece
- comprised 11 sections - 1 chord per section
