Forms and Structures
Composers and History
Compositional Techniques
Period Characteristics
Intervals
100

The name given to an ABA structure

Ternary

100

The Renaissance Period was between____ and ____

1450 - 1600

100

The same melodic material alternated between instruments

imitation


100

The name given to chords without the third.

Implied.

100

Jaws

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200

The difference between a Motet and a Madrigal

Motet is sacred

Madrigal is secular.

200

Thomas Weelkes wrote what style of music?

Madrigals

200

Multiple tones per syllable of lyrics

Melisma

200

Name the type of cadence most commonly used in motets and masses.

Plagal - IV - I

200

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

P8
300

A piece with no discernable sections

Through composed

300

High register male voice used in lieu of female singers during the Renaissance

Castrato

300

Chord progressions used to end sections of music.

Cadences

300

Name the MAJOR modes

Ionian

Lydian

Mixolydian


300

Take On Me

M7
400

The most common type of music through the Middle Ages

Gregorian Chant

400

When music directly imitates its lyrics

Word painting.

400

Chord V/V

Secondary dominant

400

Name of the progression I - V

Imperfect Cadence
400

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Tritone

500
The difference between a Mass and a Motet

Mass are large scale and multi-movement, motets are shorter.

500

The Palestrina Mass was written for:

Pope Marcellus

500

The same rhythmic material imitated at different parts of the bar

rhythmic displacement


500

Name the MINOR modes

Dorian

Phrygian

Aeolian

Locrian

500

The Entertainer

m6