The Long 17th Century

Question 1

Scientists and their revolutions

Answer 1

• Kepler: planets move around the sun in orbits.
• Galilei: law of motion.
• Descartes: philosophy explanation about world through math, logic and basic principles.
• Newton: law of gravitation.

Question 2

Music Colonialism Effect

Answer 2

Europeans brought their traditions:
Catholic service music, villancicos, Spanish colonies, Protestant psalm, hymn

Question 3

Capitalism Effects on music

Answer 3

rise of public opera and public concertos
demand for published music, musical instruments, and music lessons.

Question 4

Opera

Answer 4

a series of arias for every act,
each aria is a portrait of a character by a certain emotion

Question 5

Imitating emotion in musical gestures

Answer 5

such as melodic and rhythmic motives,
harmonic motion,
bass-line activity,
meter,
figuration

Question 6

Masques

Answer 6

musical plays that portrayed a world of ideal abstractions

Question 7

Antimasques

Answer 7

Antic or grotesque intrerludes that introduced disintegrating forces and resorted to comedy and satire.

Question 8

naturalism

Answer 8

> became the thing, popular

> paintings did not have to be beautiful,

> monteverdi broke the rule of counterpoint in order to make certain dissonances acceptable,

tension between control and freedom

Question 9

The Fifth Book of Madrigals

Answer 9

written by monteverdi in 1605

in it he distinguished between “first” and second “practice”