Cheat Sheet For Test #1 (Study Guide) The Musical Elements: melody, rhythm, dynamics, harmony, Texture, Form!And all their vocabulary words: shape, smooth/angular; disjunct/conjunct; interval; repetition; phrase, cadence, range, register, style. Meter, tempo. Forte, piano, crescendo, decrescendo. Consonant/Dissonant. Monophonic, Homophonic, Polyphonic. Know the names of the forms— recognize that they are forms!—!Instruments of the Orchestra: strings, woodwinds, percussion, brass. !Violin, viola, cello, double bass; string quartet; bow, bridge, length of string, pizzicato, Arco. Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba; mouthpiece, buzzing, articulation, slurred. Woodwinds: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon; single and double reed, length of column. Percussion: timpani; mallets. SATB!Cheat Sheet for Test #2 (Study Guide) The Middle Ages: 600-1450: In Paradisum, Alleluia, Columba Aspexit, La douza votz. Sacred vs. Secular; Gregorian chant; Notre Dame Organum; Troubadours; Pope Gregory; Liturgy, Plainchant, melismatic, syllabic; Organum. Troubadour Song.!The Renaissance, Pre-Reformation: 1450-1600: Ave Marie Stella, Pange Lingua Mass!Renaissance style Pre-Reformation; Acapella, vocal timbre SATB, point of imitation, how melodies are constructed from Gregorian chant; adding rhythm and meter. Recognizing Renaissance masters of art, architecture and music. Hymn, Mass.!Cheat Sheet for Test #3 (Study Guide)!The Renaissance, Post-Reformation 1450-1600: Pope Marcellus Mass, Brandenburg Concerto, Well-tempered Clavier, Julius Caesar, La Giustizio; Messiah Martin Luther, Printing Press, Reading. New textures. Polyphony “saved”.!The Baroque: 1600-1750!The new Instrumental Category. Vivaldi Concerti, Contrast, Doubled Bass Line, Perpetual Motion. Improvisation, Prelude and Fugue, Subject, Clavier, Equal Temperament. Movement, Cadenza, Baroque Concerto, Solo and Grosso. Castrati, virtuosi, Opera Houses, affections, coloratura, Libretto/Librettist, Opera Seria aria/recitative, da Capo Aria!Cheat Sheet for Test #4 (Study Guide)!The Classical Period (1750-1825) Mozart Symphony #40 in g, I. ; Don Giovanni, Symphony #5!Characteristics: Balance, Elegance, Objectivity, Homophony; Beauty, Pursuit of Happiness; The Classical Orchestra; Crescendo/Decrescendo; the Enlightenment; The concert Hall; Beautiful Melodies; Symphonic Form: Sonata Form, Theme and Variations, Minuet; Opera Buffa/Opera Seria, Ensemble Aria; Sonata Form: Exposition, Development, Recapitulation!Transition to Romantic: Beethoven and The Transformation of the Symphony; Scherzo, coda, Emotionalism; Both Classical and Romantic; Heiligenstadt Testament, motivic writing. Accents, Victory/Survival/Belief!Cheat Sheet for Test #5 (Study Guide) !The Romantic Period (1825-1880) Erlking; Symphony Fantastique; Romeo and Juliet, Rigoletto!The Early Romantics: the Lied, Program Symphony, 5 mvts.; Tchaikovsky and the Ballet; Russian Characteristics; NeoClassicism and Brahms, Verdi as a national Institution, Ensemble Aria; Bel Canto Aria;!and…Name that Time Period!!Cheat Sheet for Test #6 (Study Guide)!The Twentieth Century (1880-1925) Images; Rite of Spring; Pierrot Lunaire; Rhapsody on a Theme of PaganinI!Impressionism; Tonality by Assertion; Primitivism; Polytonality; Atonalism; Emancipation of Dissonance; Tone Row; 20th Century Forms and Size of
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