Midterm 2

Question 1

Leonin and Perotin

Answer 1

First two to write organm
(earliest form of polyphony)

Question 2

Sacred music language

Answer 2

Latin

Question 3

Ars Nova

Answer 3

New Art ( early 1300’s )

Question 4

Polyphony began when?

Answer 4

Late middle ages 1100’s and 1200’s

Question 5

Troubadours

Answer 5

Southern France traveled musicians

Question 6

Trouveres

Answer 6

Northern France

Question 7

Plainchant/chant

Answer 7

features monophonic non-melodic melodics

Question 8

Lute

Answer 8

String Chordophone (bas)

Question 9

Recorder

Answer 9

Aerophone (bas)

Question 10

Ordinary mass 5 parts?

Answer 10

Kyrie, Gloria, Crodo, Santas, Agnus Dei
church service catholic church

Question 11

Motet

Answer 11

Sacred Choral music

Question 12

Madrigal

Answer 12

Secular choral music

Question 13

Word painting/madrigalisms

Answer 13

Where music reflects its text

Question 14

Chanson

Answer 14

Secular French songs

Question 15

Magnificat

Answer 15

Mary finds out she will be giving birth to the child of god.

Question 16

Baroque

Answer 16

Distorted or misshapen

Question 17

Florentine Camerata, when?

Answer 17

Group of musicians (1600’s?) beginning of the Baroque period

Question 18

Figured Bass / basso continuo

Answer 18

F= numbers below lines/independent bag line
BC= chordo instruments

Question 19

Equal temperament

Answer 19

New tuning system (bach)

Question 20

The well Tempered Klavier

Answer 20

two volume keyboard collection
24 preludes

Question 21

Opera
Where did it began?

Answer 21

New genre of of the baroque period
Italy

Question 22

Castrati

Answer 22

Young boys who were castrated

Question 23

Virtuoso

Answer 23

Plays technical Music

Question 24

Libretto

Answer 24

Lyrics or text of an opera

Question 25

Recitative

Answer 25

Principal components of opera speechlike declamation of text

Question 26

Henry Purcell

Answer 26

English opera composer

Question 27

Church cantatas, who wrote?

Answer 27

multi movement works (bach)

Question 28

Language of music in the Lutheran church?

Answer 28

German

Question 29

Oratorio/opera difference

Answer 29

Oratorio's were not staged or costumes

Question 30

Who invented the oratorio?

Answer 30

George Fredric Handel

Question 31

Ritornello

Answer 31

Repeated instrumental refrain

Question 32

De Capo aria

Answer 32

lyric song ternary form (operas and cantatas)

Question 33

Messiah

Answer 33

George Fredric handel english

Question 34

William Billings

Answer 34

American composer who invented signing schools

Question 35

Anthem

Answer 35

Congregational Singing

Question 36

The Art of Fugue

Answer 36

Written by bach collection of fugues

Question 37

Fugue

Answer 37

keyboard work in the baroque period.

Question 38

Instrumental Dance of suite

Answer 38

Collection of dances put together allemande, courante, sarabandi, jig, minuet, gavotte, bourree, passepied, hornpipe

Question 39

Harpsichord

Answer 39

Strings are plucked by quills

Question 40

The four seasons?

Answer 40

Antonio vivaldi virtuoso violinist

Question 41

Program music

Answer 41

tells story about person or place

Question 42

Father of concerto

Answer 42

Antonio vivaldi

Question 43

Concerto

Answer 43

Genre peat, solo instrument or small group of soloists.