MUS 1000
Review Sheet
Test II
REMEMBER: IT HELPS TO KEEP ALL INFORMATION IN CHRONOLOGIAL
ORDER. STUDY ERAS/TERMS/CONCEPTS IN ORDER
Listening:
1. Anonymous, Kyrie from the Mass “Cum jubilo”
2. Hildegard of Bingen, “Nunc aperuit nobis”
3. Anonymous, “Sumer is icumen in”
4. Guillaume de Machaut, Gloria from the Messe de Nostre Dame
5. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Agnus Dei I from the Missa Papae Marcelli
6. Martin Luther, “Ein feste Burg”
7. Thomas Weelkes, “As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending”
8. John Dowland, Queen Elizabeth’s Galliard
9. Monteverdi, “Tu se’ morta”
10. Purcell, “Thy Hand Belinda”
11. Purcell, “When I Am Laid in Earth”
-for all listening examples you will need to know the proper spelling of composers and
titles as well as the genre and other important musical element/s that is contained in the
example (eg: The genre of “Tu se’ morta” is a baroque aria that contains word painting).
The listening guides in the text are a good source of this information.
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-meter
-texture
-timbre
-dynamics
-know how to properly use these terms to successfully describe music
-dates of the Medieval era
-acoustics
-classical/romantic styles
-liturgy
-unison
-a cappella
-Gregorian chant
-drone
-Age of Humanism
-canon
-ostinato
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-Mass/proper & ordinary
-dates of the Renaissance era
-Protestant Reformation
-Counter-Reformation
-Golden Age of Polyphony
-word painting
-through composed
-imitative polyphony
-hymn
-chorale
-madrigal
-strophic form
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-dates of the Baroque era
-affections
-Florentine Camerata
-baroque
-movements
-terraced dynamics
Dramatic music
-Monteverdi
-first practice
-second practice
-L’Orfeo
-chromaticism
-opera
-libretto
-librettist
-recitative – dry/accompanied
-aria
-chorus
-Purcell
-Dido and Aeneas
-late Baroque opera
-da capo
-bel canto
-castrati
-prima donna