History 5
Medieval
The Enjoyment of Music (13th edition): Prelude 2, and Chapters 14 – 16
Musical Type/Genre Terms/Forms/Styles Representative Required Listening Composers General Polyphony Organum Troubadours Trouvères
Medieval chant Plainchant Hildegard of Bingen Hildegard of Bingen: Liturgy Alleluia, O virgo Gregorian Chant mediatri Chant melodies Neumes Modes Mass proper Mass ordinary
Polyphony Notre Dame Notre Dame School: Polyphony Gaude Maria virgo Organum Rhythmic mode
Ars Nova Ars Nova Guillaume de Machaut Ars antiqua Chanson Rondeau, ballade, Virelai
Renaissance
The Enjoyment of Music (13th edition): Chapters 17 ‐ 20
Musical Type/Genre Terms/Forms/Styles Representative Required Listening Composers Madrigal Italian madrigal Claudio Monteverdi Monteverdi: Si ch’io English madrigal vorrei morire French chanson Word‐painting John Farmer Farmer: Fair Phyllis Part book
Motet A cappella Josquin des Prez Josquin: Ave Cantus firmus Maria…virgo serena Motet Humanism Imitation Homorhythm
Mass Mass ordinary Giovanni Pierluigi da Mass proper Palestrina Reformation Counter‐Reformation Council of Trent
Dance music Bas instruments Tielman Susato Susato: Three Dances Haut instruments Dance types (pavane, saltarello, ronde) Embellishments
Baroque
The Enjoyment of Music (13th edition): Prelude 3, and Chapters 22 – 28
Musical Type/Genre Terms/Forms/Styles Representative Required Listening Composers General Virtuosity Florentine Camerata Opera Basso continuo Major‐minor tonality Equal temperament Castrato Improvisation
Early opera Overture Henry Purcell Purcell: Dido and Aria Aeneas, Act III, Recitative Opening and Lament Libretto Sinfonia Masque Hornpipe Scotch snap Ground bass
Lutheran Cantata Chorales Johann Sebastian Bach J.S. Bach: Cantata No. Lutheran cantatas 140, Wachet auf, Nos. Bar form 1, 4, and 7
English Oratorio Oratorio George Frideric Handel Handel: Messiah, Nos. Da capo aria 18 and 44
Baroque dance suite Suite George Frideric Handel Handel: Water Music, Dance types Suite in D Major, Alla Binary & ternary forms hornpipe Hornpipe
Baroque concerto Concerto Antonio Vivaldi Vivaldi: Spring, from Ritornello form The Four Seasons, I Program music
Fugue Organ and harpsichord Johann Sebastian Bach J.S. Bach: Prelude and toccata Contrapunctus 1, from Fugue The Art of Fugue Subject and answer Countersubject Exposition Episodes Contrapunctal devices
Classical
The Enjoyment of Music (13th edition): Prelude 4, and Chapters 29 – 36
Musical Type/Genre Terms/Forms/Styles Representative Required Listening Composers General Enlightenment Patronage
Chamber music Theme Joseph Haydn Haydn: String Quartet Thematic development in E‐flat Major, Op. 33, Motive and sequence No. 2 (Joke), IV Absolute music Multimovement cycle Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Eine kleine Chamber music Mozart Nachtmusik, K. 525, I String quartet and III Sonata‐allegro form Minuet and trio form
Symphony Symphony Joseph Haydn Haydn: Symphony No. Overture 94 in G Major Theme and variation (Surprise), II Cyclical form Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
Concerto Concerto Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Cadenza Mozart Concerto in G Major, K. First‐movement 453, I concerto form
Sonata Sonata Ludwig van Beethoven Beethoven: Piano Scherzo Sonata in C‐sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2 (Moonlight), I
Opera Opera seria Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni Opera buffa Mozart (excerpts) Singspiel Opéra comique Mozart: Dies irae, from Requiem Requiem
History 6
The Nineteenth Century
The Enjoyment of Music (13th edition): Prelude 5, and Chapters 37, 39, 41‐47, 49, 51
Musical Type/Genre Terms/Forms/Styles Representative Required Listening Composers General Orchestration Romantic harmony Romantic form
Vocal music Lied Franz Schubert Schubert: Elfking Art song Song cycle Robert Schumann Song structure
Piano music Character piece Frédéric Chopin Chopin: Polonaise in A Polonaise Major, Op. 40, No. 1 Rubato (Military)
Orchestral music Program music Hector Berlioz Berlioz: Symphonie Absolute music fantastique, IV and V Idée fixe Thematic Felix Mendelssohn transformation Program overture Incidental music Symphonic poem Tone poem Edvard Grieg Grieg: Peer Gynt, Suite Nationalism No. 1 (op. 46), excerpts
Johannes Brahms Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, III
Opera Opera seria Giuseppe Verdi Verdi: Rigoletto, Act III Opera buffa (excerpts) Bel canto Singspiel Richard Wagner Wagner: Die Walküre, Melodrama Act III, Opening and Total artwork Finale Music drama Leitmotifs
Ballet Ballet Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Tchaikovsky: The Intermedio Nutcracker, Two Masque Dances Ballet de cour Pas de deux Music at the turn of Post‐Romanticism Giacomo Puccini the century Verismo Exoticism Claude Debussy Debussy: Prelude to Impressionism “The Afternoon of a Ninth chord Faun”
American vernacular Ragtime Scott Joplin Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag Strains Piano roll Player piano
Twentieth‐Century Modernism
The Enjoyment of Music (13th edition): Prelude 6, and Chapters 52‐53, 55‐56, 59, 61
Musical Type/Genre Terms/Forms/Styles Representative Required Listening Composers General Futurism Dadaism Surrealism Cubism Expressionism Avant‐garde Vaudeville Tin Pam Alley Polyrhythm Polyharmony Atonality Serialism Twelve‐tone composition
Early 20th century Expressionism Arnold Schoenberg Schoenberg: Pierrot Atonality lunaire, Part III, No. 18 Sprechstimme Klangfarbenmelodie Igor Stravinsky Stravinsky: The Rite of Second Viennese Spring, Part I (excerpts) School Serialism Tone row Alban Berg Twelve‐tone composition
Jazz and blues Jazz Billie Holiday Blues Work songs Edward Kennedy Stayhorn: Take the A Ring shouts (“Duke”) Ellington Train, by the Duke Spirituals Ellington Orchestra Blue notes New Orleans jazz Scat singing Swing Big band era Shakes Bebop Cool jazz West Coast jazz
American modernism Polytonality Charles Ives Ives: Country Band Polyrhythms March
Aaron Copland Copland: Appalachian Spring
Neo‐classicism Neo‐classical Béla Barók Barók: Interrupted Ethnomusicologist Intermezzo from Concerto for Orchestra
Postmodernism
The Enjoyment of Music (13th edition): Prelude 7, and Chapters 62‐64, 67, 70
Musical Type/Genre Terms/Forms/Styles Representative Required Listening Composers General Postmodernism Abstract expressionism New classicism Minimalism Earthworks Chance music Aleatoric music
American Tone clusters John Cage Cage: Sonata V, from experimentalism Microtones Sonatas and Interludes Prepared piano Flutter‐tonguing George Crumb
Musical Theater Musical Leonard Bernstein Bernstein: West Side Story (excerpts) Minimalism Process music Steve Reich Reich: Electric Phase music Counterpoint, III Polyrhythm
Neo‐romanticism Neo‐romanticism Jennifer Higdon Higdon: blue cathedral
Contemporary Opera Post‐minimalism John Adams Adams: Doctor Atomic (excerpts)