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Galant
- Scarlatti/CPE Keyboard
- short tuneful/expressive phrases
- repeated/varied/organized
- accompanied by simple harmonies and figuration
- 18th c.
Balanced/Rounded Binary
Balanced- AB:AB
Rounded- AB:XAB
Organicism
Using motivic links to create harmonic unity within a piece
Topic
Different styles in Classic-era music (gallant, hunting, learned)
Fugue
-Mozart learning from Bach Fugue
Opera Reform
Making operas more “natural”, expressive, less ornamented, more musical resources
French Revolution
Influenced Beethoven
Music about Napoleon/rule
Heiligenstadt Testament
Depressing AF letter about losing hearing and can’t die bc he has to let the music die first.
Romanticism
- sublime
- The Creation source
- musical emotion, individuality, melody expression
Virtuoso
Person specialized in a specific instrument/voice
Absolute Music
Music, because it has to be music
Characteristic Music
Mood, personality, scene
-Character pieces (satie)
Program Music
Accompanies text,
-symphonie fantastique
Salon
Regular gathering to play music and present compositions
-Mendelssohn, Hensel,, Schumann
Fragment
- piece of melody brought back
- OR pieces that cant stand alone or lack harmonic conclusion