Mode
Scale Types
Neume
Chant Notation
Organum
chant melodies with one or more added voice parts
Motet
Sacred Anthem on a biblical text
Chanson
French Secular Song
Mass
celebration of the Lord’s Supper
Office
Devotional Prayer Service

Polyphony

Music composed for multiple voice parts
Suite
Set of Dances
Fresco
Wall Painting on Wet Plaster
Illumination
Decoration of manuscripts with pictures or designs
Mosaic
Picture or design made from pieces of glass or stone
Relief
Sculpture projecting from a background
Chiaroscuro
The use of light and shadow in a painting or drawing
Contrapposto
Balance on one foot with a twist to the body

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Mannerism

Distortion of either shape or color
Romanesque
Rounded arches, mosaics, icons
Gothic
pointed arches, fyling buttresses, stained glass windows
Madrigal
Italian, a polyphonic song using a vernacular text and written for four to six voices
Aria
an extended vocal solo with orchestral accompaniment
Recitative
Tells a story
Basso Continuo
Continuous bass either a chordal instrument or by a bass instrument
Concerto
multi-movement work for solo instrument or orchestra
Fugue
subject in tonic, answer in dominant, exposition a clusterof entrances
Passion
Msuical setting of the death and crucifixion of Christ
Libretto
Text of an opera or similar extended dramatic musical work
Ritornello
Orchestral Refrain
Opera
Drama set to music, uses scenery etc.
Oratorio
Religious Drama
Cantata
One or more voices sung to intrumental accompaniment
Cadenza
A virtuosic solo passage performed near the end of a concerto movement

Movement

Self-contained part within a larger musical work
Minuet
French-like dance in triple meter- ABA form
Coda
ending of a musical work or section of a work
Chamber Music
Small groups of instruments, one person per instrument
Song Cycle
Collection of Lieder based on the same subject and poems by same poet
Sonata Cycle
Used for symphony, sonata, and string quartet
Symphonic Poem
Liszt’s term for a single movement program work
Virtuoso
Performer with extrodinary musical ability
Impressionism
Short, thick brushstrokes, meant to capture light on surface, unmixed primary colors
Symbolism
fantasy worlds used in art
Art Nouveau
sytle of decoraton and architecture of the later 19th and early 20th century, charecterized by the depiction of leaves and flowers in flowing, sinuous lines
Fauvism
"Wild Beasts", bright colors, distorted forms, vigorous brushstrokes
Expressionism
Style of Art charecterized
Cubism
Picasso’s form of art using cubes
Dada
deliberately insulting, meant to mock art of that day
Surrealism
Super Realism
Abstract Expressionism
Piet Mondrian
Serialism
Ugly, new form of the early 1900’s that has extreme ranges in sound
Neoclassicism
French, clean lines, smooth surface, David and Ingres artists, Greek and Roman History, Morally uplifting, precisely drawn figures
The dates of the Middle Ages
476-1300 AD
Parts of the Ordinary
Kyrie, Gloria in Exelcis, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
Master of the Organum at Notre Dame
Perotin
Leading composer of Ars Nova
Guillaume de Machaut
This artist’s style foreshadowed the Renaissance
Giotto
The dates of the Renaissance
1400-1600
The mid-Renaissance composer admired by Luther
Josquin des Prez
This late-Renaissance composer’s smooth style was studied and highly imatated
Giovanni da Palestrina
This artist/sculptor painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
Michelangelo
This artist/sculptor painted the Mona Lisa
Da Vinci
This early Renaissance sculptor’s David was the first life-like nude since ancient times
Donatello
The Dates of the Baroque Era
1600-1750
This church musician was the master at writing fugues
J.S. Bach
This German wrote Italian operas for the English

Handel

This music director at a girl’s school helped develop the concerto form
Antonio Vivaldi
This artist was nicknamed il tenebroso for his use of dark shadows
Caravaggio

He was the leading scultor of the Baroque Era

Gianlorenzo Bernini
Dates of the Classical Era
1750-1825
This composer of the Magic Flute performed concerts throughout Europe as a young boy
Mozart
The composer wrote the Heiligenstadt Testament to his brother
Beethoven
These were the leading Neoclassical artists
David & Ingres
Dates of the Romantic Period
1825-1900
The leading Romantic Artist

Delacroix

The composer of Symphine Fantastique, dedicated to the actress Harriet Smithson
Hector Berlioz
The Composer of A German Requiem
Brahms
This man’s music dramas and use of ;endless melody; revolutionized opera
Richard Wagner
The composer of the expressionist opera Salome
Richard Strauss
The ;father; of Impressionim in music
Claude Debussy
The ;father; of Serialism in music
Arnold Schoenberg
Le six belonged to this musical style/period
Neoclassicism
Igor Stravinsky’s three periods
Russian, Neoclassic, serial
This musician/insurance broker composed The Unanswered Question
Charles Ives
This American composer’s music is called populism, music for the common man
Aaron Copland
This black composer wrote ragtime, a forerunner of jazz
Scott Joplin
This American composer fused elements of classical, jazz, and popular music
George Gershwin
The impressionist artists
Pissaro, Sisley, Monet, Manet, Degas, Renoir
This artist’s style is called pointallism
George Seurat
This artist was the leading surrealist
Dali
The foremost composer of the 20th century
Ives, Copland, Gershwin
Foremost artist of the 20th century
Picasso
The three main sections of the sonata allegro form
Exposition, Development, Recapitulation
The arched rondo form
ABACADAEADACABA
The minuet form
ABA