Choral Lit Final
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Rococo | -Popular from 1725 to 1775 in France -highly decorated and frivolous art associated with the court of Versailles in the time of Louis XIS -It is considered lighter and more gracious than the Baroque style. -music for the aristocrats -Composers of this style: Rameau, Couperin and J.C. Bach |
| Tasso | bass note played only, no chord |
| Colla parte | double part |
| Clarion | trumpet |
| Clavichord | keyboard instruments with brass blade tangent that strikes a pair of strings, able to produce vibrato |
| Bel canto | italian vocal style of singing with an emphasis on beauty of sound, rather than dramatic expression |
| Sotto voice | half voice. Mozart used to mean louder than piano |
| Mannheim school | musicians associated with Mannheim court of 18th century. Made musical effects popular |
| Fz | accent |
| 1mo | one player play part, not doubled |
| Fagotti | bassoon |
| 2do/A2 | play together in unison |
| Vile beats | up beats, unaccented |
| Noble beats | down beats, accented beats |
| Missa brevis | reduced down mass setting by telescoping text, no instrumental interludes or leaving text out |
| Liturgical Mass | mass intended for liturgical use, usually chants intoned before each nvt. |
| Concert Mass | mass not intended for liturgical use, usually composed from an instrumental viewpoint |
| Symphonic Mass | a mass structured as a symphony |
| Oratorio | libretto of religious or contemplative nature performed in concert hall with recit, arias, chous and orchestra. No staging, costumes, or scenery. |
| Facsimile | photographic reproduction of one of the original sources for a work of music |
| Urtext | printed version/copy of music intended to reproduce the original intention of the composer as exactly as possible, without any added or changed material |
| Impressionism | -style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries -vague harmony and rhythm to evoke a mood, place, and natural phenomena -The technique in art, literature, or music of conveying experience by capturing fleeting impressions of reality or of mood |
| Expressionism | -A school of German music -Often atonal and violent in style -Meant to evoke heightened emotions and express states of mind. |
| Neo-classicism | -A twentieth-century trend, in which composers sought to go back to the style of "classicism" ( order, balance, clarity, economy, and emotional restraint) -A reaction against unrestrained emotionalism and perceived formlessness of late Romanticism, a "call to order" after the experimental ferment of the first two decades of the twentieth century |
| Neo-Romanticism | rich in sonorities, contains frequent climaxes, greater emphasis placed on poetic aspect of music |
| Avant-Garde | -Music which is thought to be ahead of its time. (Containing innovative elements or fusing different genres) |
| Sprechstimme | speaking on a pitch |
| 12 tone or serial technique | A technique to ensure that all 12 notes of thechromatic scale are sounded as often as one another -Prevents emphasis on any particular note through the use of tone rows, an ordering of the 12 pitches -Avoids being in a key |
| Microtonality | -Music using microtones—intervals of less than an equally spaced semitone. -Can also refer to music which uses intervals not found in the Western system of 12 equal intervals to the octave. |
| Aleatory | -music in which some element of the composition is left to chance -Some primary element of a composed work's realization is left to the determination of its performer |
| Name 2 Masses | -Beethoven Missa solemnis in D Major op 123 -Mass No. 2 in G major by Schubert |
| Name two stabat maters | -Stabat Mater in g minor Schubert -Stabat Mater by Gioacchino Rossini |
| Name two requiems | -Requiem in D minor, Op 48 by Faure -Requiem in B-flat minor, Op. 89 by Dvorak |
| Name two oratorio | Elijah by Mendelssohn -The Dream of Gerontius by Elgar |
| Name two cantatas | -Rinaldo by Brahms Stabat Mater by Dvorak |
| Name two choral symphonies | -Romeo and Juliet by Berlioz -Symphony No. 2 by Mendelssohn |
| Hymn of Priase or Lobgesang | ... |
| Name two Te Deums | -Te Deum in C major WAB 45 by Anton Bruckner -Te Deum by Krzysztof Penderecki |
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