Listening Exercises
The differences between a recitative & an aria.
Recit: chords outline melody (between spoken & sung)
Aria: solo vocal work succeeding recitative to expand upon character's emotion
A strophic, rhyming vocal work to be performed on Sundays for Lutheran church services.
What is a chorale?
The four movements of a Baroque Dance suite.
What are the allemande, courante, sarabande, and gigue?
This is a group of creatives & intellectuals who banded together to revive the Ancient Greek musical & drama tradition.
What is the Florentine Camerata?
This composer wrote both operas & oratorios that have been performed regularly throughout history.
Who is Handel?
These Baroque Dance movements are often the first pair in a dance suite.
What is an allemande & courante?
A rhythmically & melodically simple song using text from Psalms.
What is a Calvinist metrical psalm?
This lively Baroque dance movement in 3 is in a French style. It is usually the second movement in the dance suite.
What a courante?
This is another name for a repeating bass line.
This composer composed over 3,000 works for voice, woodwinds, keyboards, and strings.
Who is Telemann?
This instrumental work has multiple voices that 'develop' over the course of the work.
What is a fugue?
What is an anthem?
The allemande is usually the first movement in a dance suite. Share one quality of this style.
(others accepted at discretion of host)
This bass line descends chromatically a perfect fourth.
What is a lament bass?
This composer is famous for his intricately contrapuntal cantatas, fugues, and orchestral works.
Who is Bach?
This is a multi-movement choral composition with accompaniment.
A through-composed polyphonic vocal work for 3-6 voices using vivid poetic imagery.
What is a madrigal?
A buoyant dance in a compound meter. It is usually the final movement of a dance suite.
What is a gigue?
Vivaldi refined & popularized this type of instrumental composition.
What is the concerto?
This person's operas feature Italian-style arias (where the plot pauses for the character to express emotion, and is resumed at the hand of the orchestra) in retellings of Greek mythology.
Who is Handel?
List differences between opera & oratorios.
(at host's discretion)
Differences between music for Great service and Short service compositions for the Anglican church include...
Great service: contrapuntal, coloratura (florid)
Short service: syllabic, blocked chords. "Traditionally" choral
This Baroque dance movement is of Spanish origin, features dotted rhythms, and is played at a walking pace.
What is a sarabande?
This is the first music theory book that defined tonic, dominant, & subdominant; identified that triads & dominant sevenths are consonant, and theorized that inversions are just chords arranged differently
What is Rameau's Treatise on Harmony (1722)?
True or false: Telemann, Bach, & Handel were all born in the same kingdom.
True! They were born in the 1680s in Saxony.