Study Guide: Introduction to Music
Introduction to Music
MUS 151-04
Test #1 study guide
September 12, 2013 (review date)
September 17, 2013 (test date)
Read the article on page 8, Live in Concert. Pay particular attention to the third paragraph and the comments about the differences between an eighteenth-century concert and an modern concert.
Be familiar with these chapter 2 terms:
Rhythm (15)
Beat (14)
Meter (14)
Duple (14)
Triple (14)
Measure (14)
Syncopation (17)
Tempo (14)
Be prepared to define the characteristics of a melody (18).
Read the blurb on page 23 about hearing major and minor and know the common qualities of those tonalities. Also, read through the paragraph on page 32 regarding tone color/ timbre.
Learn the families of instruments (this starts on page 34):
Strings
Violin
Viola
Cello
Double bass
Woodwinds
Flute
Clarinet
Oboe
Bassoon
Brass
Trumpet
French horn
Trombone
Tuba
Percussion
Timpani
Snare drum
Bass drum
Cymbals
Xylophone
Glockenspiel
More terms:
Dynamics (32) forte (32) piano (32) monophony (44) polyphony (44) homophony (44) organum (64)
Proper of the Mass (66)
Ordinary of the Mass (66)
Read the articles on page 64-66 on music in the cathedral, the Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris, the work of Perotinus and the Cathedral of Notre Dame of Reims. Continue through page 67 and be conversant about Guillaume de Machaut. Be aware that the Messe de Nostre Dame is significant because it is the first 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 the following
MUS 151-04
Test #1 study guide
September 12, 2013 (review date)
September 17, 2013 (test date)
Read the article on page 8, Live in Concert. Pay particular attention to the third paragraph and the comments about the differences between an eighteenth-century concert and an modern concert.
Be familiar with these chapter 2 terms:
Rhythm (15)
Beat (14)
Meter (14)
Duple (14)
Triple (14)
Measure (14)
Syncopation (17)
Tempo (14)
Be prepared to define the characteristics of a melody (18).
Read the blurb on page 23 about hearing major and minor and know the common qualities of those tonalities. Also, read through the paragraph on page 32 regarding tone color/ timbre.
Learn the families of instruments (this starts on page 34):
Strings
Violin
Viola
Cello
Double bass
Woodwinds
Flute
Clarinet
Oboe
Bassoon
Brass
Trumpet
French horn
Trombone
Tuba
Percussion
Timpani
Snare drum
Bass drum
Cymbals
Xylophone
Glockenspiel
More terms:
Dynamics (32) forte (32) piano (32) monophony (44) polyphony (44) homophony (44) organum (64)
Proper of the Mass (66)
Ordinary of the Mass (66)
Read the articles on page 64-66 on music in the cathedral, the Notre Dame Cathedral of Paris, the work of Perotinus and the Cathedral of Notre Dame of Reims. Continue through page 67 and be conversant about Guillaume de Machaut. Be aware that the Messe de Nostre Dame is significant because it is the first 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 the following