Early Music Exam Review

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Early Music Exam Review

• Handout available at
• www.ualberta.ca/jbrough/music101/

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Part I Listening List

• Composer Title Date (CD and Text page)
• Anonymous In Paradisum (12 p. 61)
• Hildigard of Bingen Columbia Aspexit (13
  p. 62)
• Ventadorn La dousa votz (14 p. 64)
• Pérotin Alleluia, diffusa est gratia (15
  p. 67)
• Josquin Desprez Gloria from Pange Lingua Mass
  (19 p. 81)
• Palestrina Gloria from Pope Marcellus Mass
  (110 p. 85)
• Weelkes As Vesta was Descending (111 p.
  86)
• Gabrieli O Magnum Mysterium (114 p. 95)
• Monteverdi The Coronation of Poppea (115 p.
  99)
• Purcell Didos Lament from Dido and
  Aeneas (117 p.104)

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• The following is an example from a previous
  years exam
• Name the Work _Quant en moi___ (Chosen from
  Multiple Choice options)
• Name the Composer ___Machaut___ (Chosen from
  Multiple Choice options)
• This work is an example of a work composed in the
  style of
• a. The counter-reformation
• b. The Notre Dame School
• c. The Ars Nova
• d. The Franco-Burgundian school
• The genre of this work is a
• a. Gregorian Chant.
• b. motet.
• c. sequence.
• d. troubadour song.
• The text of this work involves
• a. life at court in medieval Europe.
• b. romantic love.

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Part II - Comprehension

• Topic to be tested
• All Terms in Text that are in BOLDFACE need to be
  known
• Music Fundamentals
• Material from the first two lectures, regarding
  pitch, dynamics, rhythm, texture, form and genre.
• Middle Ages
• Terms and concepts
• Gregorian Chant
• Monophony, polyphony, homophony
• Organum Notre Dame School
• Troubadour and Trouvère songs
• Motet and the Ars Nova
• Representative composers
• Hildegard of Bingen
• Bernart de Ventadorn
• Léonin and Pérotin
• Machaut

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• Renaissance
• Terms and concepts
• The Mass
• Imitation
• Homophony
• Madrigal
• Word Painting
• Renaissance Dances
• Representative composers
• Josquin
• Palestrina
• Weelkes
• Early Baroque
• Terms and concepts
• Polychoral Music
• Basso Continuo