Mus 110

Hocket is creates interlocking sonic wave when short individual pitches of a melody are played separately and successively. The activity requires group's participation

from the Renaissance comprises of a sacred song form with Latin lyrics

a motet is an interplay of homophony and imitation in polyphonic works

A madrigal is a SECULAR song sung by amateur musicians in the Renaissance. The emotional and overdramatic lyrics allow for "word painting"

madrigal and motet

400-1450

1450-1600

the Gregorian Chant

1600-1750

Middle Ages, Gregorian Chant, Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo, Classical, Romantic, Post-Romantic/Impressionist, 20th c

1725-1775

1750-1825

1820-1900

1890-1915

Texture is the weaving of musical fabric such as the thinness or thickness of sound

Timbre is how the texture is colored. It is usually described as the sharpness, clear, or vibrant sound.

Monophony is a solo or a soli singing the same melody

variations of the same song being sung at the same time which creates "thick unison"

diaphony

in the diaphony category and is a single instrument that can produce two different pitches simultaneously

• a melody with a drone
• a duet

Many voices that have equal part importances often refer to as counterpoint.

parallel motion, contrary motion, and oblique

Oblique

two equally important melodies played against each other in a single song.

Homophony occurs in a situation where one melody line DOMINATES the other voice. It is often a solo being accompanied by other voices

when accompanying voices move together as a unit

Fugue, canon, imitation

polyphony

Call and Response, imitation, and antiphony

• Antiphony- the two singing groups are the same size
• call and response- the two singing groups are different sizes

creates a sense of musical interplay between various lines and is in polyphony category

Imitation occurs when parts echo each other

When the same melodic phrase or motive is echoed by other voices in succession but in different pitches

• 1. physical sound qualities
• 2. organized sounds
• 3. music is humanly organized sound
• 4. music is created with human intention
• 5. "music" is often associated with Western music

sounds and noises that create music in a specific environment

Greece; standard and authoritative styles

• culture- ideology
• society- physical group institution

sound, concept, and behavior

Prescriptive and descriptive notation

gives instruction on how to play a specific sound

describes how the music should sound like

• 1. music was very church-oriented
• 2. Church as patron
• 3. Rise of Christianity
• 4. Before the Renaissance

Pope Gregory the Great

• 1. Acappella
• 2. Monophonic/ responsorial format
• 3. Nonmetric but rhythm follows text
• 4. Stepwise melody
• 5. Latin
• 6. Syllabic, neumatic, melismatic
• 7. Uses Church modes from ancient Greece

Proper and Ordinary

to set the public worship-especially the Mass- of the Roman Christian church

• 1. Neumes
• 2. four-lines staff and square heads
• 3. Mostly pass orally but notation also scribed by monks

Weber, Shoenberg, Berg

• 1. Student of Schoenberg
• 2. Austrian composer 

• 1. by Schoenberg
• 2. Atonality
• 3. Serialism
• 4. twelve-tone compositional method

• 1. Pointillism
• 2. Lyricism
• 3. Atonal and brief/disjuncted musical motives
• 4. Klangfarbenmelodie previously used by Schoenberg

• 1. created by Schoenberg
• 2. individual tones or sections of a melody being played by different instruments

Simple Gifts

Copland's Applachian Spring

freedom

• 1. a female nun composer who had visions
• 2. Wrote the Scivias-collections of written visions
• 3. Composed works relating to religion 

• 1. Technology
• 2. rich middle class as patrons of arts
• 3. Secular, balance, and proportions

• 1. Acappella 
• 2. Madrigals, Motet, and Mass
• 3. Cantus Firmus, chromatic development
• 4. Text painting

• 1. Italy, then England
• 2. Secular, mainly for fun
• 3. Poetic text painting
• 4. Many voice parts: polyphonic

• 1. Many voice parts: polyphonic
• 2. Middle Ages-secular
• 3. Renaissance- sacred
• 4. performed by professionals

Henry Purcell

• 1. Organist
• 2. known for dramatic and over emotional works
• 3. English Composer
• 4. BAROQUE ERA
• 5. Works for the royal courts

baroque era

• 1. First Viennese School
• 2. keyboardist
• 3. Classical and Romantic Era
• 4. Self-employed
• 5. TRANSITIONAL FIGURE

repetitive rhythmic, melodic, or harmonic pattern

Ravel's Bolero

Yes. Ground bass is a repeating bass line

a vocal solo (usually emotional) from the protagonist's point-of-view

a vocal INFORMATIVE solo commenting about the musical story that contains little musicality

using a selected theme, the composer alters the theme in successive variations

a short melodic or rhythmic pattern of a basic phrase

a musical sentence that ends in a cadence

antecedent and consequent

a grouping of musical phrases

Division of a multi-large composition

• AA- repetition
• AA'- variations
• AB- contrast

an absence of pulse

a grouping of recognizable beats

pointillism or separated notes played to create an overall theme

small group of notes to a syllable

more groups of notes to a syllable

a song tune that is repeated while the text changes

• 1. always constant
• Kyrie
• Goes-Gloria
• C-credo
• Someone's-Santus
• Ash-Agnus Des

• changes according to season
• Ian's-Introit
• Guitar-Gradual
• Are-Alleluia
• Open (for)- offertory
• Casey-Communion

sound cluster