Composers
Mozart
What is the Classical Period?
Plato was wary of music because
polyphony developed in western church before eastern church (to reflect interest in the Trinity)
Byzantine chant
tools make us
"As he saw it, Europeans merely listened to music, whereas in Africa people _______ music as an integral element of social life."
made
Handel
What is the Baroque Period?
the three levels of the music of the spheres according to Boethius
musica mundana, musica humana, musica instrumentalis
a form with continuous variation and a repeating bass line
passacaglia form
When the church approaches the individual as a consumer to be pleased, rather than as a recalcitrant sinner to be _____, the church is no longer doing what it is called to do.”
rescued
(T/F): Harmony was allowed in the liturgy by Calvin.
False
Palestrina
What is the Renaissance Period?
Zwingli's view of music
he was very scared of it
the subject enters, episodes take motific material derived from the subject and sequence it, the subject enters again and again and overlap
fugal form/fugue
Copeland's 5 properties of music
rhythm, melody, harmony, timbre, form
Mozart
Debussy
Schleiermacher's views on music
liberal, pietism, romanticism, musical religiosity
text in an opera
libretto
the largest genre (of the seven genres within the psalms) which constitutes almost half of the Psalter
lament
By the time Bach was an active composer, there was a fairly well-established tradition in baroque music theory of _____ _____.”
musical rhetoric
Crumb
What is the 20th century period?
the theory of affects (affektenlehre)
Musical materials and forms were correlated with certain affects or emotional states and it was thought that the composer could move the affects/emotions of the listener
what Bach refers to as "the most perfect foundation of music"
thoroughbass
what you need to teach Johnny hymnody according to the author
training, education, explanation
the three particularly innovative techniques that contribute to the unique character of Messiaen’s music
Modes of limited transposition, nonretrogradable rhythms, symmetrical permutations