There now is a "Practice Quiz for Midterm Preparation" on the Music 1700 E-Learning website, that allows you to study these terms through a practice quiz that you can take as many times as you want. Click on the "Self Assessments" button next to the Quizzes button in the brown header section of our class E-Learning homepage.

What to prepare for the Midterm Exam: (Exam will take all of our class time on Wed. Feb 29)

You must bring a No. 2 pencil to the quiz.

There will be 45 Multiple-choice or True/False questions on this exam. Each question is worth 4 points towards your final course grade. (The midterm is worth 180 possible points --20% of your final course grade)

Be able to match the following terms with their definitions: (the E-Learning "Glossary" definitions are also in the E-Learning "Midterm Practice Quiz")

- Musical Elements (textbook, Chapter 1 + lecture notes): Know the definitions for the following terms AND their parenthetical aspects
Rhythm (meter), Dynamics, Melody, Harmony (consonance, dissonance), Timbre, Texture (monophonic, homophonic, polyphonic), Form

- Medieval (textbook Chapter 3 + lecture notes):
Gregorian chant (plainsong), organum, motet, Mass ordinary, Mass proper,
Know the formes fixes: Ballade (AaB); Virelai (ABbaA); Rondeau (AB aAab AB)
Know what a ballata is, and how it is different from a virelai
Know that 13th century consonances were PERFECT INTERVALS (P8, unison, P5, P4)

- Renaissance (textbook Chapter 4 + lecture notes):
word-painting, point of imitation, madrigal, pavane
Know that Renaissance style is more interested in triads, careful control of dissonance

- Baroque (textbook Chapter 5 + lecture notes):
Basso continuo, figured bass, solo concerto, concerto grosso, recitative, aria, opera, cantata, oratorio, suite

- Forms and Compositional Techniques (textbook + lecture notes):
Forms: binary (chapter 1), ternary (chapter 1), strophic (chapter 1), ritornello form
Techniques: isorhythm, cantus firmus, canon (strict echoing of a "leader" and "follower[s]), fugue (chapter 5)

- Other terms (textbook + lecture notes):
musica ficta, Ars Antiqua, Ars Nova, Trecento, suspension, prima pratica, seconda practica, chorale (chapter 5, p.37), ostinato (see Chapter 5/Purcell: Music Guide 13), melisma (Chapter 3/Music Guide 3, also heard in Music Guide 21/Handel: "Ev'ry Valley Shall Be Exalted" from Messiah)

Be able to match the following composers with a brief description:
- Machaut (chapter 3, p.15)
- Josquin Desprez. Palestrina, Weelkes, Gesualdo (chapter 4, p.26)
- Monteverdi, Purcell, Corelli, Vivaldi, JS Bach, Handel (chapter 5, pp.32-33)

Be able to match the following titles with a brief description of the concept or work they relate to:
- Haec dies (Easter proper-Chapter 3/Music Guide 6),
- Agnus Dei (Mass ordinary, "Lamb of God")
- Flow My Tears (see Dowland's lute song in the notes for Feb 4/6)
- Moro, lasso (Chapter 4/Music Guide 11)
- Tu sei morta (Chapter 5/Music Guide 12)
- Dido's Lament (Chapter 5/Music Guide 13)
- The Four Seasons (Chapter 5, Music Guide 15)
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 (Chapter 5, Music Guide 19)
- Ein' Feste Burg (Chapter 5, Music Guide 20)
- Messiah (Chapter 5, Music Guide 21)