HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE MUSIC HISTORY EXAMS:

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1 Musicology Area HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE MUSIC HISTORY EXAMS: Students are advised to study from the 8th edition of A History of Western Music by Peter J. Burkholder, Donald Jay Grout, and Claude V. Palisca (New York: W. W. Norton, 2009) and the three volumes of the Norton Anthology of Western Music (6th edition). EXAM DESCRIPTION: The music history exam is divided into two parts: 1) Music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque; and 2) Classicism, Romanticism, and music of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each part is half an hour long and includes a combination of fill-in-the-blanks questions, matching, multiple-choice, multiple-answer, score analysis, and other questions designed to test the students knowledge and understanding of the historical periods, composers, repertory, forms, terms, concepts and genres. A NOTE ON REPERTORY: This study guide does not include specific works. You need to be able to identify MAJOR compositions associated with the composers from these periods, and discuss genres and other significant characteristics of those works. Middle Ages Boethius Guido d Arezzo Adam de la Halle Bernart de Ventadorn Walter von der Vogelweide Hans Sachs Hildegard of Bingen Leonin Perotin Guillaume de Machaut Philippe de Vitry Francesco Landini Notre Dame polyphony jongleurs troubadours trouvères Minnesinger Meistersinger plainchant/chant and its characteristics syllabic, neumatic, melismatic settings antiphonal psalmody / responsorial psalmody neume liturgical drama modal system chansonnier

2 Liber usualis Musica enchiriadis Magnus liber organi Cantigas de Santa Maria Ordo Virtutum Roman de Fauvel Messe de Nostre Dame Trecento Ars nova Ars subtilior solmization hexachords Guidonian hand liturgy Mass (Proper and Ordinary parts); Office sequence trope estampie organum vox principalis / vox organalis rhythmic modes cantus firmus isorhythm formes fixes virelai; ballade; rondeau musica ficta Landini cadence motet ballata caccia madrigal isorhythmic motet Renaissance John Dunstable Guillaume Du Fay Gilles Binchois Johannes Ockeghem Antoine Busnoys Josquin des Prez Heinrich Isaac Ottaviano Petrucci William Byrd Thomas Morley Carlo Gesualdo Orlando di Lasso John Dowland Thomas Tallis Giovanni Gabrieli Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina Luca Marenzio Claudio Monteverdi musica ficta motet fauxbourdon canon Reformation and Counter-Reformation Martin Luther Council of Trent L homme armé chorale anthem frottola madrigal (16th century); Italian and English consort song lute song or air chanson Musica transalpina Lied prelude

3 Michael Praetorius s Syntagma musicum Old Hall Manuscript Mass cycle plainsong Mass cantus firmus Mass parody Mass fantasia toccata canzona polychoral music cori spezzati Baroque Giulio Caccini Jacopo Peri Claudio Monteverdi Dietrich Buxtehude Heinrich Schütz Girolamo Frescobaldi Johann Jakob Froberger Georg Philipp Telemann Arcangelo Corelli François Couperin Antonio Vivaldi Jean Baptiste Lully Alessandro Scarlatti Henry Purcell Jean Philippe Rameau Johann Sebastian Bach George Frideric Handel Florentine Camerata Giulio Caccini s Le nuove musiche L Euridice Affections prima pratica seconda pratica basso continuo performance practice/instruments figured bass solo madrigal vs. concertato madrigal libretto / librettist intermedio opera monody identify two types of monody recitative secco and accompagnato ritornello opera seria and characteristics aria da capo form and characteristics castrato tragédie en musique or tragédie lyrique basso ostinato or ground bass cantata (sacred and secular) oratorio (sacred and secular) Passion chaconne, passacaglia suite (and dances associated with it) French overture structure and characteristics trio sonata: sonata da chiesa and sonata da camera solo concerto concerto grosso prelude fugue chorale prelude

4 Classicism C. P. E. Bach J. C. Bach Domenico Scarlatti Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Christoph Willibald Gluck Giovanni Battista Sammartini Johann Stamitz Joseph Haydn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Bartolomeo Cristofori Mannheim Gluck s opera reform Esterháza Lorenzo Da Ponte Friedrich Schiller Rococo Enlightenment Heiligenstadt Testament Empfindsamer Stil intermezzo opéra comique Singspiel ballad opera opera buffa fortepiano symphony (movements and outline) solo sonata string quartet concerto cadenza Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) sonata form rondo form minuet and trio form theme and variations symphony binary form vs. ternary form scherzo oratorio Requiem Romanticism Franz Schubert Hector Berlioz Robert Schumann Fryderyk Chopin Felix Mendelssohn Gioachino Rossini Gaetano Donizetti Vincenzo Bellini Carl Maria von Weber Franz Liszt Johannes Brahms Giacomo Meyerbeer Giuseppe Verdi Lied (pl.: Lieder) song cycle program symphony idée fixe Neue Zeitschrift für Musik (New Journal of Music) Florestan, Eusebius concert overture character pieces Mazurka Nocturne tempo rubato program music vs. absolute music bel canto

5 Richard Wagner Georges Bizet Giacomo Puccini Anton Bruckner Gustav Mahler Richard Strauss Hugo Wolf Modest Mussorgsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Alexander Scriabin cantabile cabaletta grand opéra Bayreuth Festival Theatre Gesamtkunstwerk leitmotive music drama endless melody exoticism opéra comique developing variation piano quintet piano quartet New German School symphonic poem tone poem thematic transformation verismo The Mighty Handful Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries Erik Satie Claude Debussy Maurice Ravel Francis Poulenc Benjamin Britten Aaron Copland George Gershwin Charles Ives William Grant Still Henry Cowell Paul Hindemith Kurt Weill Olivier Messiaen Arnold Schoenberg Alban Berg Anton Webern Igor Stravinsky Béla Bartók Dmitri Shostakovich impressionism expressionism neoclassicism formalism serialism atonality polytonal music Ballets Russes Les Six post-tonal music New Objectivity social realism Gebrauchsmusik Sprechstimme Second Viennese School principle of nonrepetition emancipation of dissonance developing variation chromatic saturation

6 Edgard Varèse Karlheinz Stockhausen Pierre Boulez Krzysztof Penderecki Milton Babbitt John Cage George Crumb György Ligeti Alfred Schnittke Luciano Berio Iannis Xenakis Elliot Carter Sofia Gubaidulina Ellen Taaffe Zwillich John Adams Arvo Pärt John Tavener Steve Reich Philip Glass pitch-class set twelve-tone (or, dodecaphonic) method Klangfarbenmelodie octatonic scale avant garde parlando-rubato palindrome musique concrète electronic music indeterminacy chance music total serialism prepared piano tone clusters minimalism post-minimalism twelve-bar blues jazz big band swing pop music rhythm and blues Broadway music / musical theatre film music quotation and collage postmodernism neo-romanticism