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EXAM REQUIREMENTS FOR RCM HISTORY I
NOTE: Biographical information is not required for composers marked with an asterisk.
However students must be able to discuss their musical styles and contributions.
THE BAROQUE ERA (ca 1600-ca 1750)
General terms as they apply to music of the Baroque era:
baroque
basso continuo
equal temperament
figured bass
homophonic texture
polyphonic texture
terraced dynamics
the Affections
word painting
Representative Composers
Representative Genres and Works
Related Terms
Antonio Vivaldi*
Solo Concerto
La Primavera from Le Quattro Stagioni
George Frideric Handel
Oratorio
Messiah
drone
ostinato
ripieno
ritornello form
da capo aria
French overture
homorhythmic texture
libretto
melisma
recitativo accompagnato
recitativo secco
counterpoint
subject
real and tonal answers
countersubject
episode
stretto
pedal point
tierce de Picardie
Johann Sebastian Bach
Overture
"There were shepherds"
"Glory to God"
"Rejoice greatly"
"Hallelujah!"
Prelude and Fugue
one selection from The Well-Tempered Clavier
THE CLASSICAL ERA (ca 1750-ca 1825)
General terms as they apply to music of the Classical era:
absolute music
binary and ternary forms
chamber music
classicism
menuet and trio
rondo form
sonata cycle
sonata form
Viennese School
Representative Composers
Representative Genres and Works
G
Franz Joseph Haydn
String Quartet
String Quartet, op. 76, no. 2 ("Quinten")
fourth movement
exposition
development
recapitulation
coda
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade
Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K 525
rocket theme
rounded binary
Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony
Symphony no. 5 in C minor, op. 67
cyclical structure
motive
scherzo and trio
theme and variations
THE ROMANTIC ERA (ca 1825-ca 1900)
General terms as they apply to music of the Romantic era:
exoticism in music
nationalism in music
program music
romanticism
Representative Composers
Representative Genres and Works
F
Franz Schubert
Art Song
Erlkönig, D 328
OR
Gretchen am Spinnrade, D 118
Piano Music
Polonaise in A flat major, op. 53
OR
Polonaise in A major, op. 40, no. 1
Program Symphony
Symphonie fantastique, op. 14
fifth movement: "Songe d'une nuit de
sabbat"
Lied
through-composed
(durchkomponiert
Frederic Chopin
Hector Berlioz
Georges Bizet *
Opera
Carmen
Act I: Prelude
"Quand je vous aimerai?"
"Lamour est un oiseau rebelle”
Giacomo Puccini*
OR
Madama Butterfly
Act I: Prelude
Act 2: "Un bel dì vedremo"
chromaticism
polonaise
rubato
cloches
collegno
Dies irae
idée fixe
ophicléide
portamento
aria
habanera
prelude (in opera)
recitative
pentatonic scale
verismo
whole tone scale
THE MODERN ERA (ca 1900 to Present)
General terms as they apply to music of the Modern era:
atonality
pentatonic scales
polyrhythm
polytonality
modal scales
whole tone scales
choreography
Representative Composers
Claude Debussy
Representative Genres and Works
Symphonic Poem
Prelude à "I’après-midi d'un faune”
Igor Stravinsky
Ballet
Petrushka
First tableau
Leonard Bernstein*
Alexina Louie
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OR
Le sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
excerpts from Adoration of the Earth (Part I):
Introduction
Dance of the Youths and Maidens
Game of Abduction
Musical
West Side Story
two of:
Dance at the Gym: Mambo
Tonight Ensemble
Maria
America
I Feel Pretty
Piano Music
Distant Memories from Music for Piano
Related Terms
antique cymbals
glissando
Impressionism in music
Symbolism
changing meter
choreography
folk song
Petrushka chord
primitivism
flutter tongue
cha-cha
hemiola
mambo
tritone
verse-chorus structure
arch form
berceuese
senza misura