Renaissance 1
Renaissance music with a lively rhythm, frequent syncopation, often including a drum and dancing.
What is secular music?
What is a motet?
The composer of Organ Fugue in G Minor.
Who is J.S. Bach?
The title and composer of the first important opera.
The composer who worked in Weimar, Coethen, and Leipzig.
Who is J.S. Bach?
The texture described by imitative counterpoint among 4-5 voices.
What is imitative polyphony?
The composer of the four-voice Ave Maria with imitative counterpoint, clearly delineated phrases, sung unaccompanied.
Who is Josquin Desprez?
Antonio Vivaldi's famous concerto about the seasons of the year.
What is Violin Concerto in E Major, Opus 8, No. 1 ("the Spring")?
Stable harmony played by a harpsichord or organ and a bassoon or cello reinforcing the bass line.
What is basso continuo?
Heard in a church as part of a worship service, in concert style (no staging or costumes), based on the Gospel reading for the day, including recitatives, arias, and chorus, accompanied by orchestra.
What is a cantata?
The composer of "Sanctus" from Missa Christi Munera Aeterna and a leading composer of the Counter-Reformation.
Who is Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina?
The church of Rome's reaction to the Protestant Reformation.
What is the counter-reformation?
The musical style that is flamboyant, energetic, dramatic, with counterpoint and elaborate ornamentation.
What is baroque music?
Repetition of motives at higher or lower levels in a rising or descending pattern.
What is melodic sequence?
Performed in a theater, secular entertainment, fully dramatized, based on classical mythology or ancient history, filled with sung arias and recitatives, and accompanied by an orchestra.
What is an opera?
The tempermental Renaissance composer praised by Martin Luther, known for using music to heighten the meaning of the words, and considered the musical counterpart to Michelangelo.
Who is Josquin Desprez?
The Reformation begin October 31, 1517 when this monk nailed 95 theses to the Wittenberg castle church door.
Who is Martin Luther?
Paintings of the period show bold contrasts such as light vs. dark colors, shadow vs. light, motion vs. angles, drama.
What is the baroque period?
The composer and title of the piece for three violins playing a canon over an ostinato bass line.
What is Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major?
"Episodes," in which the subject is not heard, are part of this type of composition.
What is a fugue?
A composition for several solo voices, unaccompanied with a secular text (often love poem), and vivid imagery that is depicted in the music.
What is the madrigal?
Known as the savior of church music because he composed a piece that showed it was possible to compose polyphonic music with intelligible text.
Who is Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina?
The period associated with an orchestra in which the violins dominate the sound, the basso continuo is present(harpsichord), and there are pairs of woodwinds, sometimes horns, and occasionally trumpets and timpani.
What is the baroque period?
The genre in which there is a friendly contest between a soloist (or group of soloists) and the full orchestra.
What is the concerto?
Born in Germany, studied in Italy, settled in England, became a successful opera composer in London, also composed famous oratorias.
Who is George Frideric Handel?