Music Lit Final

1. Renaissance and Baroque dance that was cultivated as an independent instrumental piece
2. 1st of 4 core movements of the solo suite
3. German
4. 4/4, moderate

1. Baroque dance movement in triple meter
2. Originated in 18th century, became a regular memeber of the solo suite

1. Baroque dance movement in triple meter
2. Spanish, usually slow and majestic
3. Became a regular member of the solo suite and chamber suite, following the courante

1. Middle Ages: bowed stringed instrument-fiddle or rebec
2. Root of the modern word for violin in German; Geige

1. An elegant dance movement in triple meter: 3/4
2. Enormous popularity
3. Usually binary form w/ regular phrases constructed of 4-measure units
4. Begins w/out upbeat and cadences on the strong beat; hemiola

Baroque dance movement in moderately quick duple meter and binary form

1. Festive, processional, couple dance of Polish origin in a moderate tempo
2. Singing, triple meter, lacks upbeats, has internal short repeated sections

1. Lively, simple Baroque dance in triple meter
2. French harpsichord music

Double (1)

1. To perform or to specify the performance of the same note or notes by two parts
2. Either at the same pitch level or in octaves

1. Reedpipe w/ a bell made of animal horn
2. Some fitted w/ bags

1. Composition establishing the pitch or key of a following piece
2. Short piano piece
3. Introductory orchestral piece that eludes to the opening scene of a drama, such as an opera

1. The most fully developed procedure of imitative counterpoint
2. Theme is stated sucessfully in all voices of the polyphonic texture
3. Tonally established, continuously expanded, opposed and reestablished

1. Melody or melodie fragment on which a composition or a major portionof one is based
2. Principally a term in fugue

1. In fugue, statment of subject immediately following its statement in the prevailing key
2. Tonal (diatonic) or Real (5th up or down)

1. Transitional passage whose primary function is to connect 2 passages of greater weight or importance in the work as a whole
2. Have modulation between keys of 1st and 2nd themes of a work in sonata form

1. Subsidary passage occuring between passages of primary thematic importance
2. Fugue-Modulation, After Exposition
3. Rondo-passage occuring between statements of the principal recurring theme

1. 1st major section of a sonata
2. Statement of the subject in imitation by the several voices

Development

1. Strutural alteration of musical material as opposed to exposition of material
2. Sonata-Central section of a movement
3. Sonata-rondo, or ritornello-Sonata form

1. Work for one or more solo instruments
2. Usually in several movements
3. Changes each time period

1. Most characteristic form for an individual mvt in instrumental musci from the Classical period to the 20th century
2. Exposition-Development-Recapitulation
3. Binary

1. Multisectional form, movement, or composition based on the principle of multiple recurrence of a theme or section in the tonic key
2. ABACA-5pt Rondo
3. ABACABA-7pt Rondo
4. Sonata-rondo form ABA
5. Ternary

1. A Little Night Music
2. Mozart’s Notturno or Serenade in G Major for string ensemble K. 525
3. 1787
4. 2nd mvt; minuet lost
5. perofrmed w/ orchestra
6. intended for one player on each part

Concerto for a small group of soloists (the concertino) and orchestra (the tutti or ripieno)

1. Large ensemble in a concerto grosso
2. Played w/ double tutti parts

1. In a concerto, the ensemble as distinct from the soloist(s)
2. A passage for the ensemble

1. Instrumental section of an opera, cantata, strophic aria, or other vocal work
2. Recurring tutti section of a concerto mvt or a da capo aria

1. Characteristic form of the first and often the the last mvt of late-Baroque or classical concerto
2. Based on an alternation of tutti and solo sections

1. Six concertos composed by Bach
2. Dedicated to Christian Ludwig Margrave of Brandenburg
3. March 24, 1721
4. 2,4,;5 are most like the concerto grosso-violin in No. 4 and harpsichord in No. 5 links them to the solo concerto

1. Venice- 1678-1741
2. Composer, taught violin by Father-Giovanni Battista
3. Ordained as a priest in 1703
4. Over 500 concertos

1. Oratorio for soloists, chorus, and orchestra by Vivaldi, German libretto by Gottfried van Swieten
2. Based on an english poem by James Thomson
3. Spring-Winter in order

1. In music for soloist, esp. concerto or other ensemble accompanied works
2. Improvised or written-out ornamental passage
3. Performed by soloist, usually over the penultimate or antepenultimate not/harmony of a prominent cadence

1. Vocal/instrumental work intended for performance in the evening
2. Addressed to a lover, friend, or person of rank

1. Most common type of Baroque instrument chamber music
2. 3 Parts-2 upper lines, same register and a Basso Continuo
3. 4 Performers

1. Work for instrument ensemble 1-7 or more sections/mvts
2. Contrast in meter, tempo, and texture
3. Written 1 or more melody instruments

1. Work for instrument ensemble
2. 1 or more melody instrument
3. Associated w/ dance

1. Greek theory, the unison
2. Then dissonance
3. Middle ages-several instruments

1. 1770-1827
2. Composer
3. Studied w/ Father and Bonn courts
4. Opera and organ director
5. Possibly studied w/ Mozart

Eroica

1. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6 in F Major Op. 68 (1808)
2. Mvt 1- Awakening of Cheerful Feelings on Arrival in the Country
3. Mvt 2-Scene by the Brook
4. Mvt 3-Merrymaking of the Country Folk
5. Mvt 4-Storm
6. Mvt 5-Song of the Shepherds

Program music

1. Music that attempts to express or depict once or more nonmusical idea, image, or event
2. Composer usually indicates the ;program; by a suggestive title or preface, which may be quite vague and detailed

1. Symphony by Berlioz, Op. 14
2. Important example of program music
3. 5 mvts which are united by a recurring theme; idée fixe

1. Satirical Parody of a stage work
2. Often an Opera or ballad Opera

1. Popular name for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 in D minor
2. 4th and final mvt
3. Introduction to which quotes themes of preceeding mvts; Allegro-Scherzo and trio-Adagio

Baroque dances

1. Day of Wrath
2. Comes in to play in Symphonie fantastique

1. Invented many special effects in music
2. Kept creating more and more

1. Composition competition in France
2. 1830; Berlioz won it

1. Orchestral work in the form of a sympony
2. Having a descriptive title or program
3. Much like a symphonic poem

1. Berlioz’s symphony composed for Harriet Smithson
2. 5 mvt
3. Id;e fixe

1. Reverse dotting
2. Short notes come on the beat

1. Dramatic effects for opera
2. Sporadic dynamics