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World of Music Midterm
midterm review
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Music
Undergraduate 1
10/17/2011

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dynamics
Definition
degrees of loudness
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timbre
Definition
tone color/quality
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pizzicato
Definition
plucking a string
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vibrato
Definition
ptch wavers
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meter
Definition
organizes beats in groups
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staccato
Definition
detached style
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legato
Definition
smooth connected style
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tempo
Definition
speed
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cadence
Definition
pause, defines phrase
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woodwinds
Definition
single/double reeds
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harmony
Definition
the way chords progress
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triad
Definition
3 principle chords: I tonic, IV subdominant, V dominant
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tonality
Definition
key
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chromatic
Definition
12 tones make up octave
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monophonic texture
Definition
single texture alone
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homophonic texture
Definition
single melodic line with similar accompaniment
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polyphonic texture
Definition
several melodies together forming harmony
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a capella
Definition
unaccompanied vocal music
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percussion
Definition
defnite/indefinite pitch
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Church modes
Definition
served as basis for all music through the Middle Ages and Renaissance with virtual monopoly on learning by Monks
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most Medieval music
Definition
sacred, vocal, a cappella, and modal
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Gregorian Chant
Definition

set to Latin texts,

official music of Roman Catholic Church in Medieval period,

monophonic in texture and sang a capella

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Medieval Troubadours and Trouveres
Definition

12th and 13th century poets/musicians,

left a large body of secular songs that became more important than sacred music and not based on Chant melodies,

they celebrated love and chivalry but were often drinking songs

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voice types emerged from development of vocal teaching by monks in medieval period
Definition

Female: soprano, mezzo, contralto(deep)

Male: tenor, baritone, bass

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Renaissance period texture
Definition
polyphonic and vocal
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Renaissance melody
Definition
modal
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Renaissance sacred music
Definition

Mass: based on the five sung prayers of the ordinary: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.

 

Motet:polyphonic chordal work set to a sacred Latin text

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Renaissance Secular Music
Definition
1520 the Italian madrigal emerged: a piece of several voices set to a short poem about love, combines homophonic and polyphonic textures and uses text painting and unusual harmonies
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Renaissance instrumental music
Definition
still subordinate to vocal music, but increasingly emancipated from vocal modes. music was specifically written for instruments and dancing
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Lute
Definition
versatile and popular plucked string Renaissance instrumennt played in the home and for outdoor festivals
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