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a line of notes
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a consequtive order of tones creating musical ideas
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| distance btewwn any two pictches in a melody |
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| units that make up melodys |
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| melody that accompanies another melody |
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| what moves music forward in time |
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| marked off in measures, organizes the beats in music |
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| simultaneous events in music |
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| simultaneous sounding of three or more pitches |
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| unstable or discordant harmony. |
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| organizing principle in music. repittion, contrast, and variation |
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| the interweaving of the melodic lines with harmony in music |
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| the simplest texture- single voiced music no accompaniment |
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| multiple voices elaborating on the same melody at the same time |
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| many-voiced texture based on counterpoint- one line set against another |
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| one melodic voice is prominent over the accompanying lines or voices |
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| when a melodic idea is presented in one voice then restated in another- canons and rounds |
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| the organizing principle in music |
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| rate of speed or pace of music |
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describes the volume or how loud or soft the music is played- forte and piano
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| trumpet, french horn, trumbone, tuba |
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violin, viola, cello, bass
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| tympany, xylophone, cymbals, triangle, bass drum, chimes |
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| flute, oboe, clarinet, basoon, saxophone |
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| ensemble music for small groups |
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| driven by the church- all written for the church and virgin mary |
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| gregorian chants, ordinary of the mass, organum an duplum |
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| monophonic, nonmetric set in church modes or scales |
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the paris cathedral of notre dame had this.
it is the earliest type of polyphony
2,3,or 4 voice parts sung in fixed rhythmic patterns
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| texts that vary form day to day in church |
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| texts that are the same in every mass |
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1098-1179
a nun who sang the ordinary- made it famous
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kyrie, gloria, credo, santus, agnus, dei
polyphonic
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| josquin des prez and giovanni pierluigi da palestrina |
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| motet to the virgin mary by josquin des prez |
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originated in italy as a form of aristocratic entertainment
form of poetry and music put together
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1600-1750
change in politices, science, and arts
religious wars
new world colonization
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| solo song with instrumental accompaniment |
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important new genre of the baroque era
large scale music drama
poetry, acting, scenery, costumes, singing and instruments
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overture
solo arias (lyrical songs)
recitatives (speechlike declamations of the text)
choruses
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wrote operas based on mythology and roman history
helped establish the love duet as a central part of the opera
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| wrote dido and aeneas which was based on The Aeneid the roman epic |
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1685 to 1759
wrote serious italian operas
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| vocal genre for solo singers and instrumental accompaniment based on lyric, dramatic, or narrative poetry |
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hymn tune- sung in 4 part harmony
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wrote chorales
and chorale fugues (based on imitation)
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| large scale dramatic genre with a religous or biblical text performed by solo voices, chorus, and orchestra |
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| oratorio in three parts with a french overture, lyrical arias, majestic choruses |
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| new large scale instrumental forms in the baroque |
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virtuoso violinist,
composed 4 seasons
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| no specific pictoral or literary program |
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| 1750-1825 and is characterized by order objectivity and harmonious proportion |
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| Haydn, Mozart, Beethovem Schubert- all composed large scale musical forms |
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| characterized by a singable, lyrical melody, diatonic harmony, regular rhythms and meters, homphonic texture |
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| ensemble music for two to about ten performers with one player per part |
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child prodigy who started to write music before the age of 5.
wrote A little Night Music- for strings
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worke under the patronage of the Eszterhazy court
Wrote symphonies no. 94 and Surprise
lived 1732-1809 in Austria
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transitional figure between classical and romantic
nine symphonies
wrote about political opinions through his music
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rise of middle class or bourgeois society
poets and artists flourished
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diverse artistic trends of the earl twentieth century were reaction against romanticism.
Arnold Schoenberg- important influential compositional technique.
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