Transcript Midterm #1 - Friday, March 5

Midterm #2 - Friday, November 5
Medieval Music,
Renaissance Music,
Musical Rhetoric,
Baroque Music
BRING A SCANTRON & No. 2 pencil to class
Midterm #2 (100 pts.)
1. Approx. 20 multiple choice questions
(terms and concepts from study aids, historical
highlights, composers and pieces) - 40 pts.
2. Approx. 15 listening multiple choice
questions
(musical examples of terms, concepts, and
information on specific pieces) - 30 pts.
3. Style Analysis of “Mystery Pieces” - 30 pts.
Style Analysis
• Listen to the MYSTERY PIECE.
Consider the following musical
elements in the excerpt that you hear.
Style Analysis
• A. TIMBRE
– What sounds do you hear? (i.e. What
instruments and/or voices do you hear?)
– Are there groups of instruments and/or
voices that you hear? (i.e. Do you hear
an orchestra and/or a chorus OR do you
hear individual instrumental soloists
and/or individual voices?)
Style Analysis
B. TEXTURE
– Is the texture mostly Monophony or
Polyphony?
• If Polyphony, is it mostly Imitative Polyphony or
Non-imitative Polyphony?
• If Non-imitative Polyphony, is it Hymn-like
Homophony OR Melody With Accompaniment
Homophony OR neither?
– Does the texture change many times
within the same piece (or movement)?
Style Analysis
• C. RHYTHM
–
Is there a steady beat OR no steady beat
(metrically free)?
• If a steady beat, it is gently flowing (in
speech-like rhythms) or is the beat
emphasized with lots of forward motion?
Style Analysis
• D. MELODY
–
Is the melody very smooth with
melismas within a small range OR
– very smooth with longer arch-like
shapes OR
– is the melody elaborate, ornamented,
continously expanding, long, and
winding?
Style Analysis
• E. HARMONY
– Is the harmony mostly consonant or
does it have some dissonance?
– Is the harmony created by individual
lines of melody combining together, oris
there a chord-making instrument "filling
in" the harmony?
Style Analysis
• F. DYNAMICS
– Is the dynamic mostly at one level? OR
– Are there sudden changes in dynamics
(p to f, f to p) within a piece?
Style Analysis
• G. FORM
– Does the music sound non-repetitive (no
noticeable repeats of melodic material) OR
– Is there imitation of tiny bits of melody OR
– Does one longer main theme repeated over
and over at different times in the piece
(sometimes in different modes or in
fragments)?
Style Analysis
• H. MOOD
– What is the mood of the excerpt?
• Is it "floating" and "other-worldly"? Is it
"heavy" and "dense"?
• Is it "airy" or "calm"?
• Does the mood change suddenly within the
piece?
• Does the piece have the same heightened or
exaggerated mood throughout without
much change in affect?
Dynami cs - no changes, all one level
Melody - uses melismas, ve ry smooth (legato)
Mood - calm, otherwordly, "heavenly"
Rhythm - no regular beat, free-flowing
Texture - monophonic
Themes - sounds non-repetitive
Timbre - all vocal; a cappella; all men or all
women
Texture Π polyphonic (dense, non-imit ative)
Dynami cs - no changes, all one level
Harmony - mostly consonant (hollow-sounding
chords) has some dissonant parts
Melody - uses melismas, more "jumpy" and less
smooth
Mood - heavy, dense, very thick, se rious-sounding
Rhythm - has regular beat, more complex, has
syncopations
Themes - sounds non-repetitive
Timbre - all vocal; a cappella; small groups of all
men or all women (1 on a part)
Dynami cs - mostly at one level, changes are made
in the volume by adding together more
voices
Harmony - very consonant (secular music uses
dissonance for text painting)
Melody - longer me lodies with larger ranges
(more higher and lower notes); smooth,
more scalar melodies (pitch movement by
step) with arch-li ke shapes
Mood - calm, smooth, airy; long stretches of all
bright or all dark
Rhythm - "speech-li ke" and gently flowing
rhythms
Texture - mostly polyphonic (some homophony,
emphasis on imit ative polyphony)
Themes - lots of im itation of tiny bits of melody
Timbre - almost all vocal music; use of full mi xed
(men and women/children) choirs or small
groups (1 on a part) ; a cappella
Dynami cs - sudden changes from l oud to soft and
soft to loud
Harmony - new emphasis on chords, use of ba sso
continuo, orchestra mainly consists of strings
and basso continuo
Melody - elaborate, ornamented, continuously
expand ing, long and winding
Mood - the same mood or affectΣ throughout
movement (vocal music is exception; vocal
music has many changes of mood, but closely
follows text )
Rhythm - emphasis of beat, lots of forward motion
Texture - more rapid changes in texture
(homophony, some emphasis on imitative
polyphony) throughout a single movement or
piece of music
Themes - one main theme repeated over and over
Style Analysis
Using your observations about what
you heard in the “mystery piece”
excerpt, make an educated guess
about it's historical period and the
composer who may have written this
piece.
Style Analysis
I believe that Mystery Piece #1 was
probably written in the
________________________ .
(Early Middle Ages, Late Middle Ages,
Renaissance, or Baroque).
The composer of this Mystery Piece #1 is
probably ___________________________
.
Style Analysis
I am making this educated guess, because
I hear the following historical style
characteristics in the Mystery Piece.
(1)
(2)
(3)