mus history mis term Flashcards
(21 cards)
O Schmerz
Bach, St. Matthew Passion: No. 11, The Last Supper; recitative
genre: passion
Importance: textual musical
mixing the classic way of doing things- trying to orchestrate church music and mixed Lutheran chorals with arias
types of text: biblical, poetic interpertations, choral
much richer accompanyment when jesus is singing
“The Splendour Falls
By: Britten Genra: Song Importance: word painting unevenness of rhythm music and imitation
Beva Con Me
Verdi, from Otello Genra: opera comic opera drinking song it introduced modified strophic
Symphony No. 88:IV
Genra: Symphony
Haydn
Identifying Genra
modified strophic form
String quartet Op. 33 no 4:IV
By: Haydn
Identifying Genre
was able to be liberal with it, allowed him to be more expressive because he was not preforming to a larger audience
String Quartet :
most important chamber music genre of the classical era
preforming forces: violin 1,2, viola and cello
usually in four movements- fast slow moderately fast- fast
first movement usually in sonata form
The Erlking
Schubert
Genre: leid
voice ranges
pitch and tension
Lied
the musical setting of a german poem
for solo voice, generally with piano accompaniment
flourished in the 19th century
Symphony in G Minor K. 550:I
Mozart
Sonata form
“Catalog” Aria, “Ah taci ingiusto cor,
Aria
Mozart
Sounds nobel for a bit- does not fit
later it turns elegant
mozart challenges the idea that what is good and beautiful does not always conenside
things make sense- the music is as dramatic as the words/ scene.
music give you info- tells you things the words don’t
in theater we have to believe what the playwrite wants us to believea, you kinda just have to go along with what theyre saying
O statua gentilissima”)
from Don Giovanni
graveyard scene
opera
word painting: statue nodding and replying, very comic.
recitative
a speach like style of singing used in operas, oratorios, cantatas
fallows inflections of the text resulting in rhythmic stability
usually used to advance the plot or storyline; moves through the text quickly
aria
Italian for air
a solo song heard in an opera, oratorio, or cantata
highly emotional ofter virtuosic
may have lyrical or dramatic character
timbre
tone colour
the quality of sound specific to a voice or instrument
a sound
organization distinguishes it, hard to define though
in a way what is to count as music depends upon our distinction and it is a decision made with a purpose in mind
tone
has a purpose
is as sounds which exists within a musical field of force. this field of force is something which we hear, when hearing tones. Supposed that only rational beings can hear it.
usefull when translating a sound into a word- ex bang. exists in nature but grammer and language transform it into a word.
or b in c+
when sounds are heard as music three processes occer:
the physical vibrations in the air
the music becomes present: the sound produced by these vibrations which is isolated in music as a pure event
you hear it: what i hear in the sound i hear it as music.
monophonic
one sounding
a single line of music with no accompaniment
gregorian chant- even though many singers still monophonic generally
polyphonic
two or more line in the musical fabric
homophonic/ honophony
single line of melody supported by a harmonic accompaniment
means same sounding- ex chordal music.
hallelujah opening.
counterpoint
combination/ opposition of two or more melodic lines.
contrapuntal and polyphonic texture.
two types imitative and free.
imatative ex- “and he shall reign in hallelujah”
free- counterpoint without any imitation in the lines
imitative extreme (note for note)- cannon
