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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
Volkstumlichkeit
Folk influence
Gesamtkunstwerk
Poetry, scenic design, staging, action, and music
-collective artwork
unites music and dramatic text
-Wagner
Nationalism
Building from a countries history, musical past.
Exoticism
using other cultures melody/rhythm
-carmen
Realism
- reality of every day life
- La Traviata (verdi)
Artwork of the Future
-essay by Wagner
Beethoven’s 9th was the the last pure instrumental piece.
The Ring Cycle/Bayreuth
- Wagner dramas with big orchestra and orch pit, and lights dimming
- German National epic, nordic legends
The Ring Cycle/Bayreuth
- Wagner dramas with big orchestra and orch pit, and lights dimming
- German National epic, nordic legends
Tristan Chord
F-B-D#-G#
In Tristan and Isolde, characteristicly known, never resolves
