1 Flashcards

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Galant

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  • Scarlatti/CPE Keyboard
  • short tuneful/expressive phrases
  • repeated/varied/organized
  • accompanied by simple harmonies and figuration
  • 18th c.
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Balanced/Rounded Binary

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Balanced- AB:AB

Rounded- AB:XAB

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Organicism

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Using motivic links to create harmonic unity within a piece

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Topic

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Different styles in Classic-era music (gallant, hunting, learned)

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Fugue

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-Mozart learning from Bach Fugue

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Opera Reform

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Making operas more “natural”, expressive, less ornamented, more musical resources

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French Revolution

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Influenced Beethoven

Music about Napoleon/rule

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Heiligenstadt Testament

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Depressing AF letter about losing hearing and can’t die bc he has to let the music die first.

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Romanticism

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  • sublime
  • The Creation source
  • musical emotion, individuality, melody expression
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Virtuoso

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Person specialized in a specific instrument/voice

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Absolute Music

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Music, because it has to be music

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Characteristic Music

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Mood, personality, scene

-Character pieces (satie)

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Program Music

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Accompanies text,

-symphonie fantastique

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Salon

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Regular gathering to play music and present compositions

-Mendelssohn, Hensel,, Schumann

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Fragment

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  • piece of melody brought back

- OR pieces that cant stand alone or lack harmonic conclusion

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Volkstumlichkeit

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Folk influence

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Gesamtkunstwerk

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Poetry, scenic design, staging, action, and music
-collective artwork
unites music and dramatic text
-Wagner

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Nationalism

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Building from a countries history, musical past.

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Exoticism

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using other cultures melody/rhythm

-carmen

20
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Realism

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  • reality of every day life

- La Traviata (verdi)

21
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Artwork of the Future

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-essay by Wagner

Beethoven’s 9th was the the last pure instrumental piece.

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The Ring Cycle/Bayreuth

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  • Wagner dramas with big orchestra and orch pit, and lights dimming
  • German National epic, nordic legends
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The Ring Cycle/Bayreuth

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  • Wagner dramas with big orchestra and orch pit, and lights dimming
  • German National epic, nordic legends
24
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Tristan Chord

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F-B-D#-G#

In Tristan and Isolde, characteristicly known, never resolves