The Enjoyment of Music Midterm

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Music for nonreligious functions
Secular music
Categories of music
Genre
Mass for the dead
Requiem
Sung at funerals and memorial services
Dies irae
The most important of the masses for special services
Requiem
How is recitative different from an aria?
Recitative is based on speech like singing and an aria is based on a solo singing
Speech like singing, irregular rhythym, dialog/action
Recitative
Song, regular meter, emotion, repeated text, and is sung solo
Aria
Rich musical pictorialization of the imagery
Word painting
Define word painting and give an example
The music technique of writing music which reflects the literal meaning of a song. EXAMPLE: rustling of leaves (tremolar le fronde)
Opposite of ordinary. texts that vary according to the day
Proper mass
Remains the same for every mass, wrote by composers
Ordinary
Five parts of the catholic mass
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Agnus Dei
Part of mass based on lord have mercy
Kyrie
Part of mass based on glory to god in the highest
Gloria