Summer Exam Questions Flashcards
(10 cards)
What are the eras in music?
Renaissance (medieval) -1400 -1600 (15th, 16th 17th centues)
Baroque - 1600 - 1750(17 th, 18th centuries)
Classical - 1750 - 1820 (18 and early 19th centuries)
Romantic - 1820 - 1910 (19th and early 20th centuries)
Modern - 1910 - present (20th and 21 centuries)
What is rennaisance music?
Sacred music - was music that was based on the bible or other sacred tets and was performed during church services
-secular music- was non-religious and usually based on poetry or short stories
Features:
- Vocals featured predominantly
- Polyphonic texture
Composers:
- william Byrd
- maddalena casulana
What is baroque music?
The Baroque period is know for its extravagant and complex architecture and this art reflected in the music from this period to music fram this period too.
Instrumental music became
equally as important as vocal
music (the renaissance was predominantly vocal music)
• Complex polyphonic textures
• Ornamentation was used heavily.
• Ornamentation - the decoration of the melody by adding extra notes
• Opera became a popular genre as did oratorio
• Opera is a staged work for instrumants and voices are is mainly secular
• Oratorio - a non-staged work for instruments and voices that are religious
• The use of the harpsichord-a key instrument for providing bass lines and harmonics to pieces of music
String instruments were used
Terraced dynamices - dynamics that were just piano (soft) and forte (loud), instruments could not get gradually louder or softer
Composers.
• Jonan Sebastan Bach
.barba strazzi
What is pulse?
The steady continuous beat in music
What is rhythmn?
The pattern of long and short sounds in music
What are notes?
.they are individual sounds in music and each one has a value or length . The number of beats signifies how long the sound is held for
How many beats are in a semiberve,minim,crotchet,pair of quavers, dotted minim?
Semibreve:4
Minim:2
Crotchet:1
Pair of quavers: 1
Dotted minim:3
What are bars,bar lines and double bar lines?
Bars:are musical units of equal length,into which we organise notes,pulse and rhythmn
Bar lines: vertical lines that separate bars
Double bar lines: used to indicate the end of a music piece
What is an ostinato?
In music a repeating pattern of notes
What is dictation?
The skill of listening to music and being able to write down what you hear
