3 SECONDARY - LISTENING
Unit 1: Antiquity and Middle Ages
Seikilos epitaph
Form: Epitaph.
Rhythm: based on the text.
Texture: monophonic.
Timbre: solo voice and lyre.
Puer natus est nobis
Form: Gregorian chant.
Rhythm: free rhythm following the expression and phrasing of the text.
Texture: monodic texture, with a single melodic line.
Timbre: a cappella vocal singing performed by male voices.
Cantiga 100 "Santa María Strela do día" - Alfonso X the Wise
Form: Cantiga.
Rhythm: duple time signature (2/4). Marked rhythm.
Texture: monophony with instrumental accompaniment in heterophony.
Timbre: male voices, female voices and instruments.
Sederunt principes - Perotín
Form: melismatic organum quadruplum.
Rhythm: It is notated in the very early mensural rhythmic notation called rhythmic modes, which causes it to be in what we would consider compound meter.
Texture: polyphonic.
Timbre: four voices.
Unit 2: Renaissance
Ave Maria - Tomás Luis de Victoria
Form: Motet.
Rhythm: at the service of the text.
Texture: contrapuntal and homophonic.
Timbre: choir in four voices.
Mas vale trocar - Juan del Encina
Form: villancico.
Rhythm: triple time signature (3/4).
Texture: homophonic.
Timbre: choir in four voices.
Diferencias sobre Guardame las Vacas - Luis de Narváez
Form: "differences".
Rhythm: it alternates between 6/4 and 3/2.
Texture: the texture becomes more complicated from one variation to the text.
Timbre: solo vihuela.
Unit 3: Baroque
Canon in D Major - Johann Pachelbel
Form: canon.
Rhythm: quadruple time signature (4/4)
Texture: imitative counterpoint.
Timbre: three violins and basso continuo.
"Hallelujah" (from Messiah' Oratorio) - Händel
Form: chorus of oratorio.
Rhythm: quadruple time signature (4/4)
Texture: monophonic, homophonic and polyphonic parts.
Timbre: choir and orchestra.
"Winter" (from the Four Seasons) - Vivaldi
Form: concerto a solo.
Rhythm: quadruple time signature (4/4)
Texture: accompanied melody.
Timbre: soloist violin and orchestra.
Unit 4: Classicism
Piano Concerto No. 21, 2nd movement: Andante - Mozart
Form: concerto.
Rhythm: quadruple time signature (4/4)
Texture: accompanied melody.
Timbre: soloist piano and orchestra.
"The Queen of the Night" (from The Magic Flute opera) - Mozart
Form: aria of opera.
Rhythm: quadruple time signature (4/4)
Texture: accompanied melody.
Timbre: soprano and orchestra.
Trumpet Concerto in Eb, 1st movement: Allegro - Haydn
Form: concerto.
Rhythm: quadruple time signature (4/4)
Texture: accompanied melody.
Timbre: soloist trumpet and orchestra.
Unit 5: Romanticism
Prelude No. 4 in E minor - Chopin
Form: prelude.
Rhythm: quadruple time signature (4/4)
Texture: accompanied melody.
Timbre: piano.
Rigoletto: La donna è mobile - Verdi
Form: aria of opera, strophic form with an orchestral ritornello.
Rhythm: triple time signature (3/8)
Texture: accompanied melody.
Timbre: tenor and orchestra.
Moldau - Smetana
Form: symphonic poem, free form.
Rhythm: duple compound time signature (6/8), flexible beat.
Texture: complex textures with frequent changes in keys and new dissonances..
Timbre: orchestra.
Unit 6: The 20th century
The Rite of Spring - Stravinsky
Form: symphonic poem, free form.
Rhythm: duple compound time signature (6/8), flexible beat.
Texture: complex textures with frequent changes in keys and new dissonances..
Timbre: orchestra.