MUSIC 120 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Antihero, Friedrich Schiller, George Frideric Handel
REVIEW SHEET for MIDTERM EXAM
MEDIEVAL ERA
Pope Gregory the Great: standardized & codified Latin/Gregorian chant
Hildegard von Bingen: medieval abbess – and a polymath: dramatist, composer, essayist,
mystic, poet & author on health & science: First major composer for whom we have
biographical info.
Notre Dame Polyphony & Perotin: Best 13th-century composer of three- and four-part organum
(including “Gaudi Maria virgo”]
RENAISSANCE ERA
Guillaume de Machaut: b. 1300, his Missa Notre Dame
establishes the “mass” as the ultimate
musical genre for Renaissance-era composition. Leading figure of Ars Nova
innovations in
notation, etc.
Josquin de Prez: Renaissance master: motet, “Ave Maria . . .”; critical feature is a contrapuntal
technique: points of imitation. “Ave Maria . . .” also presents shifts in texture, from polyphonic
to homophonic.
BAROQUE ERA
Claudio Monteverdi: Early Baroque composer who wrote the music for the first operatic
masterpiece, L’
Orfeo.
Monteverdi’s opera was
informed by his madrigal composition AND by
Camerata theories. Monteverdi worked for Count Gonzaga at his Mantua court.
Orfeo: world’s greatest musician; see “Tu se morta,” an expressive recitative, rich in word
painting.
Henry Purcell: English, masque/opera “Dido & Aeneas”; “Dido’s Lament” aria for singer and
string orchestra. Basic musical structure and form is based on a descending ground/ostinato
lament bass. Performed at girl’s school in Chelsea.
Dido: queen of Carthage sings a paired recitative & “lament” aria: basso ostinato despair & fated
death.
Antonio Vivaldi: “the red priest” wrote over 500 concerti (solo & grosso). His “laboratory” for
composition was at a girl’s school in Vienna; the Pieta orchestra. The Four Seasons
, four
Document Summary
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