Music Theory Elements
A recognizable line of music that includes different notes, or pitches, and rhythms in an organized way.
A MELODY
Pope Gregory the Great began the process of collecting and codifying chants sang in church services. These chants are called...
Gregorian chants
This was a major invention during the 1500s that made written music more available to the public.
This is a very distinctive loud instrument that has a reed enclosed by an animal bladder. Like the bag of a bagpipe, the bladder serves as a wind reservoir keeping the lips from touching the reed directly. The bladder pipe's sound is unusual because the player is unable to tongue or otherwise control the reed.
Bladder Pipe
The Baroque Era is known for this characteristic.
Its DRAMA
This term is used to discuss the way melody, harmony and rhythm work together like layers of a cake.
TEXTURE
This type of sound involves only one melody with no other harmony.
MONOphonic
Renaissance means...
REBIRTH or RENEW
The first stringed instrument to which the keyboard principle was applied. When the crank is spun, the wheel turns and the gut strings vibrate. Tangents activated by keys press these strings at the appropriate points to produce different pitches.
HURDY GURDY
Opera is classified in two styles. The recitative and this type...like the Queen of the Night's famous song.
ARIA
This term is used to discuss slowing down or speeding up music.
TEMPO
POLYphonic
Martin Luther pushed against the authority of the church. Songs were sung from poems and sought to express a variety of emotion. Instead of most music being sacred, this type of music was now widely played.
SECULAR or POPULAR
This held the highest respect of all musical instruments. Its belly is made of pine with a carved sound-hole or rose in the middle and has a pear shaped back. Stringing is light since the body is not able to withstand twelve or more strings at high tension.
LUTE
This is the famous composer of the opera The Magic Flute.
MOZART
This term could be used to discuss getting louder or softer in music.
DYNAMICS
These music professionals would provide music for tournaments, festivals, feasts and other gatherings of their day. They would also carry with them news of the surrounding areas.
Wandering Minstrels or troubadours
Musicians during this time were expected to be proficient at more than a few of these.
INSTRUMENTS
The most versatile Renaissance wind instrument. It had a very small acorn cup mouthpiece attached to a hollowed out piece of curved wood or ivory. Six finger holes and a thumb hole are drilled in the body. It can sound as loud as a trumpet or soft enough to blend with recorders. No other instrument came so close to the sound of the human voice.
ZINK
There are many ways drama was portrayed in music during the Baroque Era. Name two ways.
DISSONANCE, DYNAMICS, TEMPO, IMPROVISATION, MAJOR AND MINOR TONALITY
This term is used to discuss the way music is organized into sections.
FORM
The tempo during in music before 1400 was generally slower. This type of note was the common beat.
WHOLE note
Instruments during the Renaissance time were classified into two families. Loud and soft. But that didn't refer to dynamics it referred to this.
Suitable for playing OUTDOORS or INDOORS
One of the most ancient types of stringed instruments. The range of this instrument is determined by the number of strings. Strings were made from twisted animal gut (usually from sheep), although horse hair and even silk were used as well.
HARP
There are certain techniques that set opera apart from earlier plays that used music. Name 2 ways opera was distinct.
SUNG DIALOGUE, FULL OF DEEP EMOTION, ACCOMPANIED BY ORCHESTRA, NO MICROPHONE