MUSI 2730 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Shawm, Tielman Susato, Holy, Holy, Holy
30 Jan 2018
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Melody: contour the overall shape of the melody, range the span between the highest and lowest notes, conjunct a smooth, connected melody that moves principally by small intervals. 9/8: syncopations deliberate disruption of pattern; accent shifted to a weak beat or offbeat, non-metric music without a strong sense of beat or meter. Imitation melodic idea is presented in one voice then restated in another: canon strictly imitative work, row, row, row your boat in a round. Timbre/tone color the quality of sound that distinguishes one instrument or voice from another: voice ranges, soprano, mezzo soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, bass. Idiophones: membranophones, families of western instruments (in the orchestra, strings (chordophones, woodwinds (aerophones, brass (aerophones, percussion (idiophones and membranophones, types of ensembles, chamber groups 2-12 members, orchestra vs. Composers/influential people: pope gregory the great gregorian chant, hildegard of bingen alleluia, o virga mediatrix; set many of her own poems to music, leonin and the notre dame school magnus liber organi.
