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Music Appreciation Study Guide for Final MUSIC APPRECIATION STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL TIME PERIODS Troubadours Middle Ages (1000-1400) L’homme arme Renaissance (1400-1600) Baroque (1600-1750) UNIT 5 (Chapters 11-12): Classical Period (1750-1830) Renaissance (1400-1600) Romantic Era (1830-1910) Josquin des Prez (Mass) 20th Century Music (1910 – Present) 5 Mass Parts (Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei) UNIT 1 (Chapters 1-4): Martin Luther Dymanics Ayres Decibals (db) Madrigal Pitch a cappella Timbre John Wilbye (Madrigal) Family of Instruments: Lute/Courses Strings Thomas Morley (Ayres) Woodwind The First Booke of Consort Lessons Brass Consort Percussion Orchestration UNIT 6 (Chapters 13): Tempo Opera Rhythms (whole, half, quarter notes) Recitative/Aria Syncopation Librettos Melody Jacopo Peri’s Eurydice Interval Opera and Musical Revolution Octave Claudio Monteverdi (Orfeo) Tonic Scales (major, minor, & pentatonic) UNIT 7 (Chapters 14): The Essentials of Music Jig Tonal Music UNIT 8-9 (Chapters 15-17): UNIT 2 (Chapters 5-7): Baroque (1600-1750) Harmony Growth of Music Business Chord Harpsichord Arpeggio Plectrum Monophonic/Polyphonic Baroque Instruments Round Dances of the Suite (Allemande, Courante, Binary Form (AB Form) Sarabande, Gigue) Strophic Form Johann Sebastian Bach ABA Form (Rounded Binary) Toccata & Fugue in D Minor Antonio Vivaldi (The Four Seasons) UNIT 3 (Chapters 8): Program Music Middle Ages (1000-1400) Secular Music UNIT 10 (Chapters 18-19) Scared Music Opera Seria Vernacular John Gay (The Beggar’s Opera) Cantata UNIT 4 (Chapters 9-10): Chorale Chant/Gregorian Chant Oratorio Syllabic/Neumatic/Melismatic George Frideric Handel (Messiah) Hildegard of Bingon (Chant) Drone 1 MUSIC APPRECIATION STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL Unit 12 (Chapters 20-23) Classical Period (1750-1830) Patter Song Pianoforte Ballet Bartolomeo Cristofori Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky String Quartet The Nut Cracker Franz Joseph Haydn The Sleeping Beauty String Quartet in C Major (The Bird) Symphony No. 94 (The Surprise) Unit 16 (Chapters 36-39) Symphony 20th Century Music (1910 – Present) Opera Comique Advances in 20th Century Society Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart New Instruments (theremin, electric guitar, Don Giovanni Hammond organ, synthesizers) Mozart Concerto No. 23 Expressionism Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, Zerlina Atonal Concerto Arnold Schoenburg (Pierrot Lunaire) Impressionism Unit 13 (Chapters 24) Claude Debussy (Voiles) Romantic Era (1830-1910) Claude Monet Musicologists Primitivism Music Publishing Igor Stravinsky (The Rite of Spring) Music Instruction Sound Recording Unit 19 (Chapters 36-39) Romantic Piano (7 octaves) The Concert Band New Instruments - Saxophone, tuba, John Phillip Sousa Timpani (tuned) Stars & Stripes Forever Virtuosity March Ragtime Unit 14 (Chapters 25) Scott Joplin (The Maple Leaf Rag) Ludwig Van Beethoven Blues Beethoven Piano Sonata in C Minor No. 13 The Blues Form Beethoven Sym. #5 and #9 Blues History Motive Bessie Smith B.B. King (The Thrill Is Gone) Unit 15 (Chapters 26-35) Robert Johnson Lied (lieder) Jazz Franz Schubert (Erlkonig) Swing Stephen Foster Louis Armstrong (Hotter Then Hot)t Camptown Races Scat Girl with Light Brown Hair Duke Ellington (Take the “A” Train) Swanee River George Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue) Parlor Songs Requiem Johannes Brahms (Requiem) Operatta Gilbert & Sullivan The Pirate of Penzance 2 MUSIC APPRECIATION STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL MUSIC TO KNOW: 1. Hildegard of Bingen “Nunc aperuit nobis” (CHANT) 2. Anonymous “L’homme arme” (ABA Form, Secular) 3. Josquin des Prez “Missa l’homme arme sexti toni” (MASS) 4. John Wilbye “Adew, Sweet Amarillis” (MADRIGAL) 5. Thomas Morley “O Mistresse Mine” (AYRE) 6. Claudio Monteverdi, “Orfeo” (Early Opera Aria) 7. Rufus Guinchard, “Boston Laddie” (JIG) 8. J.S. Bach “Toccata & Fugue in D Minor” (SOLO KEYBOARD) 9. Antonio Vivaldi “The Four Seasons” (VIOLIN CONCERTO) 10. John Gay “The Beggar’s Opera (OPERA COMIQUE) 11. George Frideric Handel “Messiah” (ORATORIO) 12. Franz Joseph Haydn, “String Quartet in C Major (The Bird” (STRING QUARTET) 13. Franz Joseph Haydn, “Symphony No. 94 (The Surprise)” (EARLY SYMPHONY) 14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, “Don Giovanni” (CLASSICAL OPERA) 15. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, “Concerto No. 23” (CLASSICAL CONCERTO) 16. Ludwig Van Beethoven, “Piano Sonata in C Minor No. 13 (PIANO SONATA) 17. Ludwig Van Beethoven, “Symphony #5 and #9” (ROMANTIC SYMPHONY) 18. Franz Schubert, “Erlkonig” (LIED) 19. Stephen Foster, “Camptown Races” & “Girl with Light Brown Hair” (PARLOR SONGS) 20. Johannes Brahms, “Requiem” (MASS OF THE DEAD) 21. Gilbert & Sullivan, “The Pirate of Penzance” (OPERATTA with PATTER SONG) 22. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, “The Nut Cracker” (BALLET) 23. Arnold Schoenburg, “Pierrot Lunaire” (ATONAL) 24. Claude Debussy, “Voiles” (IMPRESSIONIST MUSIC) 25. Igor Stravinsky, “The Rite of Spring” (PRIMITIVISM BALLET) 26. John Phillip Sousa, “Stars & Stripes Forever” (CONCERT BAND MARCH) 27. Scott Joplin, “The Maple Leaf Rag” (RAGTIME) 28. B.B. King, “The Thrill Is Gone” (BLUES) 29. Louis Armstrong, “Hotter Then Hot” (NEW ORLEANS JAZZ) 30. Duke Ellington, “Take the “A” Train” (BIG BAND JAZZ) 31. George Gershwin, “Rhapsody in Blue” (POP/CLASSICAL FUSION) 3 The Essentials Treble Clef or "G" Clef Staff 4 1& 4 Measure or Bar End Time Signature Bar Line Mesure Number =120 Tempo Marking Bass Clef q How many beats per measure ÿ Rehearsal Marks ? 4 c What Kind of Note Gets the Beat Common Time: Same as 4/4 Time Notes On The Piano Staff œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ & œ œ œ œ œ œCDEFœ œ GABC DEFG ABCD ? œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œ œEFGAœ œ BCDE FGA B Ways To Remember The Notes œ œ œ œ œ œ & E(every)œ G(good)œ B(boy) D(does) F(fine) œFACE œ œ ? œ œ œ œ G(good)œ B(boys)œ D(do) F(fine) A(always) A(all)œ C(cows) E(eat) G(grass) ©Terry Carter 2011.
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