Brainscape's Knowledge GenomeTM


Top Flashcards (Certified)
All Flashcards

Choral Quals > Quals Q and A > Flashcards

Quals Q and A Flashcards

(83 cards)

Start Studying
1
Q

How do the 3 Ave regina coelorum by Dufay differ?

A

later two are CF, this one is freely composed; this one is earliest

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
2
Q

What is the text genre for Ave regina coelorum?

A

Marian antiphon

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
3
Q

What is the form and other important features of Ave regina by Dufay?

A

2 pt form; double leading tone cadences (Burgundian); Tenor duets with other 2 parts’

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
4
Q

Describe relationship between Ave regina and fauxbourdon

A

Influence of fauxbourdon, but not strictly used

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
5
Q

What genre is Nato canunt omnia? Country of origin? Liturgical use? Composition date?

A

French sequence for Christmas; before 1000

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
6
Q

What separates Nato canunt omnia from later sequences?

A

It is “prose” and doesn’t rhyme

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
7
Q

Describe the development of the sequence.

A

850-1150 syllabic series of couplets to the same melody; after 1000 texts scan and rhyme

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
8
Q

What types of Masses use sequence?

A

Speicific feast days; Proper; Followed Alleluia

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
9
Q

What are the typical performance practices for chant?

A

call and response; antiphonal; unison;

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
10
Q

From what larger work is Lasso’s De profundis?

A

Penetential Psalms (#6 of 7)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
11
Q

What is the unifying feature of Lasso’s De profundis?

A

Ten verses, All ten are set to the same Cantus Firmus, despite varying voices, ranges, CF voice position, CF pitch, etc.

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
12
Q

Describe Lasso’s De profundis.

A

mostly chordal, syllabic, not dramatic, brief verses, concise, consistent tonality

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
13
Q

Discuss Lasso’s Seven Penetential Psalms

A

written during his first decade in Munich, commissioned by his Duke; modally ordered set; Gloria Patri at the end of each Psalm; uses CF in various parts, canon, and antiphony

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
14
Q

What genre is Magnificat anima mea? Scripture source? Liturgical use? Composition date?

A

Canticle of BVM; Vespers; 12 verses from Luke; used daily

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
15
Q

What are the three daily Canticles and the services in which they appear?

A

Magnificat (BVM, Vespers); Benedictus (Zechariah, Lauds); Nunc dimittis (Simeon, Compline)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
16
Q

Describe the textual unity of Vespers?

A

Not very unified due to the constantly changing psalms

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
17
Q

How do Anglicans use the term “canticle” differently?

A

To decribe all the psalms and hymns of a service

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
18
Q

What canticle officially begins a day?

A

Vespers (at twilight)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
19
Q

Where does Josquin’s Ave Maria, gratia plena fit into his compositional output?

A

Probably a mature work, due to lack of melismas and more concern for text/music relationship

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
20
Q

Josquin’s Ave Maria, gratia plena quotes what, according to whom?

A

Ave Maria sequence (Reese)

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
21
Q

Why is Ave Maria, gratia plena an important work by Josquin?

A

It highlights all of his imitative techniques; points of imitation; paired voices; chordal; paired duets

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
22
Q

How does one distinguish Josquin from Palestrina?

A

Clarity of sections

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
23
Q

What genre is Hodie Christus natus est? Liturgical use?

A

Antiphon for Canticle at 2nd Vespers for Christmas

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
24
Q

How is Hodie different from other psalm chants? Why?

A

Neumatic (not syllabic); Magnificat antiphons tend to be more ornamented

How well did you know this?
1
Not at all
2
3
4
5
Perfectly
25
What is an antiphon?
Liturgical chant with praise text sung with a psalm (GP adds Christian stamp to Jewish practice)
26
What are the categories of Antiphons? (7)
Psalms; From Matins/Lauds/Vespers; to Benedictus/Magnificat; Mass; Marian; Processional; Rhymed
27
When are Marian antiphons sung? What are the four that survived Trent?
Compline (last office of the day); Salve regina, Alma Redemptoris Mater, Regina coeli, Ave Regina Coelorum (SARA)
28
Describe Christ lag in Todesbanden by Eccard (genre, composition technique, voicing, form, use of thematic material)
Chorale motet; melody in top voice; SATTB; AAB form; conservative CF form; chorale is intact, but doesn't permeate; objective melody, not subjective interpretation of text
29
Discuss the development of the chorale.
1530s German hymn in unison with congregation a cappella; Polyphonically harmonized (Walther/Eccard/Hassler); 1580s melody in top voice became the rule; 1604 organ accomp added
30
Who created an encyclopedia of chorale arrangments? What was it called?
Praetorius; Musae Sioniae (9 books)
31
Describe a Chorale concertato.
continuo; Praetorius (Polyhymnia caduceatrix, 1619) with concerted/Venetian style and chorale melody
32
What grew out of the Chorale concertato tradition?
Chorale cantata, all of the diverse elements of the chorale concertato were separated into individual movements
33
Verbum caro factum est (Hassler): genre, voicing, text source, inspiration, contrast, textures, word painting
polychoral motet; 6 part; John 1:14; Venetian studies with A. Gabrieli; high vs. low; 3, 4, and 6 pt. textures; "pleni" full 6 vcs. And long notes
34
Who succeeded Hassler in Dresden?
Praetorius and Schuetz
35
This is the Record of John (Gibbons): genre; voicing; form; instrumentation
verse anthem; SAATB; 3 verses (CT solo) and choral answers (repeat all or part of CT solo text) through-composed; independent viols with solos colla parte organ (most likely, though no indication) with choir
36
Performance practice for This Is the Record of John (Gibbons)
Originally in F, perform in Ab to accommodate female voices (original CT parts are low)
37
Characteristics of 17th century English choral music? (4)
solo w/independent instrumental accompaniment, short recit-like phrases for soloist; short clearly-divided sections; delayed accent (strong syllable on weak beat)
38
How does Gibbons achieve contrast in "This Is the Record of John"? (3)
solo vs. chorus; independent accompaniment vs. colla parte; contrapuntal vs. chordal
39
What is Gibbons' compositional output?
15 verse anthems, 7 full anthems, 2 sacred madrigals
40
How is the Agnus Dei of Byrd's Mass for Four Voices unified?
Builds in texture from 2-3-4 voices, each subsection has 3 points of imitation until Dona, each subsection uses head motive pitches rearranged
41
What is important to know about Byrd's Mass for Four Voices?
Model for his others; all movements except Sanctus use a head motive; freely composed;
42
How is Byrd's Mass for Four Voices like and unlike Continental style at the time?
Like: includes Kyrie, freely composed; Unlike: short Kyrie, not 'spun out' musically (unlike Palestrina), reduced voices, unusual divisions of Gloria and Credo, more chromatic than Palestrina
43
Discuss Palestrina's Mass output.
2 L'homme's; 7 CF masses
44
What determines form in the Kyrie of Palestrina's 5-voice Missa L'homme arme?
CF; out, then in, then transposed; Voices imitate CF (unlike Ockeghem); CF in long notes
45
Discuss original performance practices for Palestrina.
All a cappella (including CF); no women in papal choir
46
What movement of Palestrina's 5-voice MLA has no CF?
Crucifixus
47
What is remarkable about the pitches involved in Palestrina's Gloria from 5-vc MLA?
Rising scales against descending CF
48
Describe Arcadelt's Il bianco e dolce cigno: genre; voicing; textual form; key word painting
1st generation madrigal; SATB; 2 4-line stanzas with a repeated line (5+5); swan--high voices, "I weep"--basses, melisma on happy, last line repeated for "thousand deaths"
49
Describe Revecy venir du printans: composer; genre; voicing; form
Le Jeune; Musique Mesureé; 5-voice; always identical refrain alternating with verses unified by consistent melodic material in top voice
50
Describe Musique Mesureé
Poems by Baif; classical (Greco-Roman) meters; agogic setting; irregular patterns of 2+3 based on syllabic stress; mostly homophonic texture; often Rondo form (refrain vs. strophes/chants)
51
Describe Innsbruck: Composer; voicing; genre; texture; melodic placement; form
Isaac; SATB; lied; homophonic (mostly) with occasional imitation (like at beginning T/S); melody in tenor; 6 phrases ABCABD.
52
Describe the development of the German Polyphonic Lied
4 periods; 15th century tenorlied (3-4 pt, tenor melody, bar form, Lochlamer liederbuch); 1500-1515 Isaac/Hofhaimer/Finck (Added Josquin features to tenorlied, 4-pt norm, imitative, "Innsbruck"); 1535-1560 Senfl (added distinctive countersubject sometimes, copied French technique of onomatapoeia); 1560-1600 Lasso/Hassler (influenced by Italian madrigal, some balletts, some synthesis, Hassler = German Morley)
53
Describe Parisian Chanson and major composers
Sermisy/Lasso
54
How is Bon jour mon coeur different from or similar to Sermisy's Parisian Chanson?
expanded harmonic vocabulary; like: musical phrases designed around the rhyme scheme; repeats last line
55
What dance appears in Bon jour mon coeur? What rhythm appears for every 4-syallable word? Lyricist?
Galliard ("coeur" is the leap), E E Q H; Roussard
56
Describe Bon jour mon coeur: composer; texture; harmonic language
Di Lasso; syllabic; succession of non-structural triads; bass line not smooth (top-down approach)
57
What changed in poetry of chansons around 1580?
Poets began to write to fit musical forms (opposite of humanist superiority of words)
58
Describe Ach weh des Leiden: Composer; Voicing; Published in; Date; melodic placement; dance rhythm; texture; stylistic changes; rhetorical division
Hassler; SSATB; 1601 "Lustgarten Neuer Teutscher Gesäng"; Soprano not tenor; chordal triple (lighter) caesura imitative duple (serious with suspensions); epigram--situation/caesura/point
59
What is an Anglican service?
Musical settings of the canticles for Matin and Evensong and some parts of the Ordinary of Holy Communion (formerly included the entire ordinary, shortened to Kyrie and Credo in late 16th century)
60
What movements are included in Byrd's Great Service?
Great: (Morning: Venite, Te Deum, Benedictus; Communion: Kyrie, Creed; Evening: Magnificat, Nunc Dimittis)
61
How many services did Byrd write?
4: Great, Short, Second (sections), and Third (like short)
62
Describe the Great service: Voicing, contrasts,
10 voices (treble, 2 CT, T B); full verses/reduced textures, homo/imitativ, high/low, groups, antiphony, quick/slow text
63
Conducting issues of Great Service:
Micro-rhythmic complexity; cross relations; balance (CT part); perfect tempo; spatial division
64
Describe If Ye Love Me: Composer; genre; voicing; original key; form
Tallis; Full anthem; TTBB (or AATB); C (great for men); alternating chordal/polyphony 3 pts. Of imitation, then 2, then 1
65
Describe Palestrina's Sicut Cervus: approx. date; genre; text source; entrances
1581; Tract during processional to baptismal after the Collect; each of the opening entrances happen after fewer tacti
66
What form permeates the de la Rue Requiem? What movement is the exception?
Rounded 3-part; Sicut cervus (tract)
67
How does Sicut contrast earlier movements of de la Rue's Requiem?
higher tessitura; first appearance of soprano voice
68
What composers included Sicut in their Requiems?
Ockeghem and de la Rue
69
What is an epigram?
a verse or short poem with a witty point; includes a shrewd antithesis
70
How many masses by Charpentier?
12
71
Describe Messe de Minuit pour Noel by Charpentier: voicing/instrumentation; source material; key (original/typical); trill interpretation
SATB soli/SATB chorus/flutes, strings, organ; 10 French Christmas carols; D, Hitchcock edition in C; always starts with upper note and always on the beat
72
Describe Notes inegales
17th century French convention where straight quarter notes or eighth notes in groups of four would be performed as q. e q. e or e. s e. s, especially in scalor passages; played like triplets, not strictly dotted
73
Describe Missa alla breves by Buxtehude: notation; style; place in compositional output; voicing; special techniques (4)
long note values in cut time; stile antico; only mass by B; Basso seguente; SSATB; invertible counterpoint; stretto; unusual leaps
74
Jephte: composer; sections; genre; voice type for Jephte/historicus? Voicing for chorus?
Carissimi; 3 tableaus (battle, victory celebrations, lamentations); oratorio; T for J, ASB for historicus; SSA/TTB
75
First composer of oratorio? How many?
Carissimi (Jephte); 16 Latin, 2 Italian
76
How does Carissimi use monady in Jephte?
musical prose linked to verbal accentuation, dissonant harmonies, leaps, and embellishments
77
Who borrowed Plorate fili Israel? For what?
Handel for "Hear Jacob's God" from Samson
78
Musicalische Exequien: commissioned by; movements and voicing; key features
Prince Heinrich of Reuss, texts chosen for his tomb; double choir in slight variations includes "favoriti" or soloists?; uses chorale melodies for various movements
79
Compare favoriti and capella sections from Musicalische Exequien.
florid, Italianate, word-painting vs. antiphonal and shifting meter
80
Ein feste Burg: Composer, voicing; Festival; instrumentation; form; genre; use of melody
Krieger; SATB (no soloists); St. Bartholomew's Day; vlns/vlas/bsn/continuo; ritornello and verse (full with orchestra); Chorale Cantata; CF in different voice each verse in long notes
81
Describe In ecclesiis: composer, genre, published in/when, voicing, instrumentation,
G. Gabrieli; polychoral motet; 1615 in Symphoniae Sacrae II (posthumous); SATB soli (focus)/ATTB chorus; 6 independent unspecified instruments plus organ continuo
82
Differences between G. Gabrieli and Willaert:
W strictly liturgical; contrast of voicings by verse (G switched more frequently); W-2 groups, G-3 or 4; W-CF, G-not; W-Psalms performed in correct liturgical position
83
G. Gabrieli style
abrupt contrasts; short sections; contrasting forces; poly choirs of differing voices; contrasting meters; spacial separation

Choral Quals (3 decks)

Brainscape helps you reach your goals faster, through stronger study habits.
© 2025 Bold Learning Solutions. Terms and Conditions