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Music Appreciation- Middle Ages and
Renaissance – actual exam guide
Middle Ages - dates - ANS- 450 - 1450 A.D. Renaissance - dates - ANS- 1450 - 1600 A.D. Renaissance meaning - ANS-rebirth Middle Ages - Gregorian Chant - ANS-a melody with simple harmonic accompaniment - monophonic (only one line of music) Guillaume de Machaut was a well-known composer during what period of music? - ANS-Middle Ages A Cappella - ANS-A term used to describe unaccompanied choral music In which period was As Vesta Was Descending written? - ANS-Renaissance Madrigal - ANS-a piece written for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love
The texture of Renaissance music is _____ - ANS-polyphonic (more than one musical line) Middle Ages - Estampie - ANS-traditional medieval dance Middle Ages school Ars Antiqua period - ANS- 1100 - 1300 Middle Ages school Ars Nova period - ANS- 1300 - 1450 Middle Ages - Ars Antiqua began in Paris at the _____ - ANS-Cathedral de Notre Dame Middle Ages - Representative Ars Antiqua composers - ANS-Leonin 1163- 1190 Perotin early 13th century Hildegard von Bingen 1098- 1179 Anonymous? Middle Ages - Meaning of Ars Antiqua - ANS-old art Middle Ages - Ars Antiqua stemmed directly from the ______ - ANS-Gregorian Chant Middle Ages - Organum - ANS-This style of music can be characterized as adding hollow sounding harmonies (perfect 4ths and 5ths) to existing chants. Middle Ages - cantus firmus - ANS-one voice would be added above the existing chant; sung very slowly Middle Ages - polyphony - ANS-more than one pitch played at the same time - what we typically call harmony Middle Ages - parallel organum - ANS-the first type of polyphony - here the cantus firmus and the other higher harmony mirrored each other
Medieval Instruments - Instruments used in accompaniments - ANS-Harp Krumhorn Lute Muted Cornett Psaltery Sacbut Serpent Shawm Hurdy-Gurdy Drum or Tambor Recorder Viol Middle Ages - Ars Nova was when - ANS- 1300 - 1450 14th and 15th century France Middle Ages - During which school of music was the invention of modern notation - ANS-Ars Nova Middle Ages - During which school of music was the Ordinary of Catholic Mass - ANS-Ars Nova Middle Ages - During which period was the popularity of the Motet - ANS-Ars Nova Middle Ages - Representative Ars Nova composers - ANS-Guillaume de Machaut 1300- 1377 Francesco Landini 1325- 1397 Anonymous? Middle Ages - Guillaume de Mauchant 1300 - 1377 - ANS-A poet and musician. Created the first Ordinary for the Catholic Mass. Created many of the musical forms of today (rondos and ballades).
Master of the counterpoint. Middle Ages - Examples of Ars Nova music - ANS-Music from this period was the first to add stems to the nuemes, thereby creating our modern system of notation. Middle Ages - The oldest surviving round (Ars Nova) - ANS-Sumer is icumen in Middle Ages - Most medieval composers wrote mainly for the ____ and remained anonymous. - ANS- church Middle Ages - These early composers did not take the art of _____ seriously. It was more a necessary function, or duty. - ANS-composition Middle Ages - Most ____ musicians had day jobs. - ANS-secular Middle Ages - Full time musicians were ____. - ANS-poor Middle Ages - Music was held in high ____, but those who made it were not. - ANS-regard Renaissance idea - ANS-the universal (Renaissance) man - every educated person was expected to be interested/knowledgeable in everything, including music and the arts Renaissance - painters/sculptors - ANS-Leonardo da Vinci Botticelli Michelangelo Raphael Titian During what period were women accepted as virtuoso singers - ANS-Renaissance
Renaissance - Monophonic chant opening - ANS-Voices set in various registers (high vs. low voices) Alternation of homorhythmic and polyphonic textures. Full, consonant harmony. Palestrina's _____ was dedicated to his patron Pope Julius 3rd - ANS-Pope Marcellus Mass - it is sung in a capella, only sung by a male choir (highest voices were sung by boy sopranos or male falsetists, text was set syllabically Renaissance - Secular Dance Music Galliard - ANS-song in triple meter Renaissance - Secular Dance Music Pavane - ANS-Processional court dance was performed by pairs of dancers and arranged in formal patterns Renaissance - Secular Dance Music Ronde - ANS-round dance, performed in a circle Renaissance - Secular Dance Music Saltarello - ANS-very fast moving dance in duple rhythm Renaissance - Motet - ANS-Josquin des Prez (Flemish composer) and Renaissance Motet Ava Maria...Virgo Serena (Gentle Virgin); uses new polyphonic device - Imitation (the short melodic theme presented by all four voices without any intervalie changes) Words are proclaiming humanistic and emotional spirit of a new age. Meter change from duple to triple and back. Renaissance - Madrigal Italian Madrigal - ANS-Aristocratic form of poetry and music in Italy, very expressive word painting music. Thematic text has wide range, combines homophonic and polyphonic textures.
English Madrigal - ANS-Queen Elizabeth was the subject of flattering original poems, many of which were put to music, English composers preferred simpler text, extremely Word painting music. Madrigal - Instruments ____ or _____ for the voices. - ANS-duplicating; substituting John Farmer (1591-1601) - ANS-most popular composer of English madrigals Pierre Passereau in _____ - ANS-France Madrigal instruments - ANS-lute recorder dulcian
