Part 2 Study Guide Middle Ages Dates: 450-1450 1. What was going historically during this era? What was life like? The era began with the disintegration of the Roman Empire and ended with the cultural reawakening of the Renaissance. The era whiteness a fairly unorganized Europe with lots of individual small towns‚ feudalism‚ the majority of people are uneducated and illiterate with the exception of the clergy and priests. At the end of the era universities were founded‚ towns grew and with
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unified setting of the Ordinary of the Mass. Read the articles on pages 62 and 63 about Hildegard of Bingen. Know the term humanism (75) and the effects it had on the composition of liturgical music. More terms: motet (76) a cappella (77) imitation (76) madrigal (82) word painting (83) Read up on Palestrina (78-81)‚ the Counter-Reformation and the Missa Papae Marcelli (Mass for Pope Marcellus). Read about Josquin Desprez (75-77) and Thomas Weelkes (83). Begin listening to
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Introduction Renaissance‚ literally‚ means rebirth; it is an era that began in 1400’s and ended in 1600 and its school of thought dramatically shifted from religious and mystical ideals to a focus to human interactions. It is worthy and important to understand the changes from the transition of musical period‚ because they mark and shape the music industry that stands now. For instance‚ opera was in its infancy when Giulio Caccini (1551-1681) started writing the first opera and now operas can be
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1 With what justification is the year 1600 singled out as a turning point in the history of music ? Sile Somers (1118 Words) In music and other arts‚ periodisation groups the continuous flow of works by their time and certain characteristics . Period groupings are defined by the perception that the works within them share a single quality or a set of qualities that are significant. One must remember that periodisation is a device used in hindsight for critical analysis and debate‚ and consider
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Middle Ages Dates: 500-1450 1. What was going historically during this era? What was life like? It was a chaotic period of social and political unrest. Religious and political differences between and within regions led to nearly constant warfare. The life of all the classes was dominated by the feudal system - feudalism. 2. Who or what had the power? The church 3. Who were learned or literate? holy men or people of important status such as kings‚ queens‚ and knights most other people were
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Any meaningful attempt to appreciate a piece of vocal music must begin with its text‚ if it has one.2 Listener‚ analyst‚ critic and performer must all take the text as their starting point for the simple and obvious reason that that was where the composer almost invariably began. This dictum applies with equal force to solo and choral compositions‚ old music and new‚ nothing diminished by a few notable exceptions. It is now taken for granted that the analysis of a vocal work ought to take at least
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MIDTERM REVIEW SHEET Music 15 – Fall 2013 Date: Thursday‚ October 31 Time: 11:00 am – 12:15 pm (Please be early‚ if possible‚ Value: 40 points (20% of total grade) Format: The exam will consist of listening identification and general knowledge questions‚ definitions‚ and one short answer question. Please bring a black or blue pen. Section One – Listening Identification (15 points) Identification of listening examples from the syllabus (title‚ composer‚ time period‚ genre‚ other elements
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Ancient to Baroque‚ USA: Norton & Co‚ 1990 Kennedy‚ Michael. Concise Dictionary of Music‚ Oxford: Oxford University Press‚ 1996. Naumann‚ Emil. The History of Music. London‚ Paris‚ New York‚ Melbourne: Cassel & Company‚ 1900. Pesce‚ Dolores‚ Hearing the Motet‚ (New York: Oxford University Press)‚ 1997. Reese‚ Gustave. Music in the Renaissance‚ (USA: Vail-Ballou Press‚ 1954‚ USA Richolson Sollitt‚ Edna Russano Hanning‚ Barbra. A Concise History of Western Music. New York: Norton & Co‚ 1998. Fallows‚ David
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MUSI4813 5/20/09 Music History Synopsis Ancient Greece Major Political events- Much of the written compositions made in this time were destroyed or went missing as the Christian church got rid of pagan influences. Rome was overthrown and Europe went into turmoil and people focused less on music and more on survival. Historical perspective- Aristotle and Plato wrote about music which they believed to have moral and ethical properties essential to the complete education of young students.
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composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. Palestrina ranks with Lassus and Byrd as one of the greatest Renaissance masters. As a prolific composer of masses‚ motets and other sacred works‚ as well as madrigals‚ he was (unlike Lassus) basically conservative. He has had a lasting influence on the development of church music‚ and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony. Palestrina’s masses contain some
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