Humanities Exam 2

Music that tells has a subject/tells a story

Music for music sake. Doesn't have a subject/story.

• AB format 
• Example: I am a child of God

• ABA format
• Example: Now let us rejoice, Israel Israel God is calling

A part of a large musical work

• -Flee or flight
• -The melody flies from one voice to another throughout the piece
• -Binary

• -A round
• -Most simple Fugue
• -Voices imitate one another
• Example: Row row row your boat

Fugue, Canon, Theme and Variation, and Sonata Form

Suite, Sonata, Concerto, Quartet, Symphony

A variation is a complete playing of the melody in different ways

• -Also called sonata allegro or first movement
• -Granddaddy form

Exposition, development, recapitulation, and then coda

• -Contains two main themes (a, b)
• -Usually is repeated

• -The two melodies are developed
• -No rules
• -Bits and pieces can be used, upside down, backwards, ect.

• -Return to the original theme
• -No repeat

• -Latin for tail
• -Short
• -Composer drives home his theme
• -Definitie closing

• -A collection of small pieces, grouped by a central theme
• -Often highlights parts of ballets

• -Piano
•     or
• -Solo instrument with piano accompaniment 

3 movement: fast, slow, fast (first movement in sonata form)

• -Multiple movement work for solo instrument with orchestral accompaniment
• -3 movements: fast, slow, fast

• -2 Violins
• -1 Viola
• -1 Cello
• -4 movements (first in sonata), then slow, then minuet, then rondo

• -Sonata for orchestra
• -4 movements, same structure as quartet

Art song, opera, aria, recitative, and chorus

• -AKA lieder
• -For solo voice with piano accompaniment
• -They are designed to show off the virtuoso talent of both the singer and the pianist

• -Strophic: Uses the same music for each verse
• -Through composed: Opposite approach

• -One of the most powerful and most important parts of classical music
• -A story set entirely to singing

-Soloist with orchestral accompaniment with repetition

• -Soloist is singing with imitative speech accompanied by chords
• -Lots of words little music

• -Chorus written about common folk
• -Everyone is singing together

• -Depth is done by shadows 
• -Distance is done by perspective

• -Italian word
• -Light and shadow

Verse chorus/binary

Break or pause in the music

The melody

Horizontal, vertical, pyramidal, symmetrical, and radial

-Puts an emphasis on lines running left to right

-Emphasis on an upright figure

-Emphasis on a single triangular shape

• -Emphasizes balance
• -Two main parts are not identical, but are in balance

-All major lines point to one central point

-A is to B as B is to AB

• -Like the golden section 
• -Cut your picture into thirds

Straight ad curved

-Stability

-Majesty

-Potential energy

• -It is the brightness (medium) 
• -Also cost

• -High (white)
• -Medium (gray)
• -Low (black)

Red, yellow, and blue

Oil

• -Black
• -White

-Visual appearance of a surface

• -The way in which artists are able to depict distance
• -Linear and aerial

• -Lines recede together toward vanishing point
• -Objects appear smaller over distance

• -Changes in color
• -Objects in the distance appear lighter in color

• -Our mind fills the gap
• -Portray an object having less depth than it really does

• -50mm
• -20mm
• -200mm

Normal

Wide angle

Telephoto

• -Refers to how much of your photo is in focus from front to back
• -Ability to selectively focus on just one area

33mm medium wide angle

It flattens it

It is the hole that lets in light

Lower aperture

A sigle thing

The storyline or chain of events

When you say one thing, but mean something else

Underling message or moral of the story

-A change by which the action veers round to its opposite

A change from ignorance to knowledge producing love or hate

The theme

Word choice

-Costumes, make up, sets, special effects

Hero overs their opposition

The hero doesn't overcome their opposition

Someone in high position that falls due to a character deficiency

Explaining or introducing two characters and setting

Conflict

• -Where all the conflict comes to a single point
• -Where things couldn't possible get worse

Where the author releases some tension

The resolution

Exposition, complication, climax, comic relief, then denouement

Macbeth listens to witches who says he will be king and ends up killing the king and a whole bunch of people until someone finally kills him

They are evil

Brave, ambition is his weakness

Macbeth's cousin, great king

A hypocrite, crazy

Macbeth's best friend and voice of reason

Duncan's son

The guy who kills Macbeth in the story.