music test review 2

List the 8 musical elements and give a brief definition of what each means

• Sound which is split into three the notes frequency, amplitude, and frequency

  Timbre the quality of sound

  Rhythm the time aspect of music

  Key the musical key the music is played in

  Texture is how many sounds can be heard at once

  Harmony the resonance between two sounds played at the same time

  Melody is a sum of notes that add up to a recognizable whole and goes up or down in steps and leaps

  Form is the blueprint of music

• there is no musical elements

What were the 3 main social class divisions during the Middle Ages?  Which had the most power at the time

• Peasant, nobles, and the clergy and the clergy had the most power

• Peasant, nobles, and the clergy and the nobles had the most power

The most important service in the Catholic Church is the    

List the musical characteristics of Gregorian chant

• its melody is made of steps, its rhythm is flexible without a meter, its texture is monophonic, there is no harmony, the key is relative, and the form is connected to the number of lines

• there are no characteristics

What does it mean if music is polyphonic

• simultaneous performance of two or more melodic lines of relativity equal interest.

• there is only monophonic

What was the main influence on the Renaissance

List 3 traits of Renaissance music

• They are like word painting, they express emotions through music, and were mainly a cappella

• they are old, dumb, and boring