Music M401
History and Literature of Music I:
Antiquity to 1750

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Fall 2007

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Review Guide For Third Examination

The examination will again be held in Recital Hall. The ground rules and format will be the same as for the first two examinations, as described in the review guide for the first examination and the review guide for the second examination.

The known listening or score identification questions will focus only on the pieces we have covered since the second examination. The unknown listening or score identification questions may draw on the repertoire of the entire semester so far.

The short answer questions and terms and names will focus only on the readings and lectures since the second examination. The essays will emphasize material since the second examination, but may ask you to include discussions of music and ideas we studied earlier.

Before you begin to study, review once again the course objectives to make sure you understand what is being tested and why.

Once Again, Make a Time Line! Since the second exam, we have covered 150 years, including years that overlap music covered on that exam. We have also treated many pieces and composers by genre or nationality rather than in chronological order, in this and in previous units. Making a time line for the entire period since 1500 will help you to review the dates of compositions, composers, and important events and to see the chronological relationship of different types of music and schools of composition.


Weiss-Taruskin Readings

Some short answer questions will draw upon the readings in Weiss-Taruskin. In reviewing Weiss-Taruskin, focus particularly on these readings: Castiglione (WT 25), writings on the madrigal in WT 38, the excerpt from Arbeau's Orchésographie in WT 41, Vincenzo Galilei (last selection in WT 43), Giulio Caccini (WT 44), Artusi and Monteverdi (WT 45), Marco da Gagliano (first selection in WT 46), Agostino Agazzari (first selection in WT 47), Christoph Bernhard (WT 51), and Descartes and Mattheson (WT 59). Be prepared to identify a short passage drawn from these readings by who wrote it (or who it is about) and about when it was written, and to discuss the issues addressed in the passage and the significance for music history.


Topics for Review

The following topics are designed as a guide for organizing your review of music during the period we have studied. Organizing what you know in terms of these large themes and categories should help you prepare for the listening, short answer, and essay portions of the examination. In addition, see the Review Questions at the end of each chapter of the Study and Listening Guide. In preparing for possible essay questions, remember that you will be expected to describe examples from the music we have studied to support your points.

For any of these topics, ask yourself:

  1. The relationship of music and words in sixteenth-century vocal music, including the madrigal, chanson, and motet.
  2. The development of instrumental music from the sixteenth century through the mid-seventeenth century.
  3. The concepts of musical rhetoric, the doctrine of the affections, and the doctrine of musical figures in the Baroque, including a comparison to the Renaissance interest in capturing the imagery, mood, and correct declamation of a text in music.
  4. The development of opera and related forms in Italy through the mid-seventeenth century.
  5. New developments in sacred music in the early Baroque period.

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