Baroque & enlightenment Flashcards
Fugue
Several melodic lines played at the same time
Opera
Orchesta with solos and choirs
Sonata
first movement of a symphony
Oratorio
Large musical piece with orchestra, choir, and solos
Orchestra
Group of instruments: woodwind, brass, string, and percussion playing classical music
Counterpoint
playing melodies within eachother
Concerto
Piece for solo instrument - solo plays melody, orchestra plays accompaniment
Requiem
Mozart piece - performed for dead person(s)
symphony
Consists of 4 movements, large form of music
First movement pace
Fast forward
second movement pace
slower, develops themes
third movement
festive, light
finale
re-establish themes
Bernini, David
story of david, dramatic
tenebrism
treatment of light and dark
Calling of st. matthew, caravaggio
christ calling Matthew in a room includes tenebrism
Judith slaying holofernes, gentileschi
remake of caravaggioes, painted by artemisis gentileschi
the night watch, rembrandt
soldiers during the night, forshortening
the garden of love, rubens
angelic, perfection, gods and goddesses, celebration of his marriage to his wife
maids of honor (las meninas), valazquez
everyone looking at you, spanish quart painter
where is las meninas painting located?
Prada
jonathan swift
enlightenment great writers, remorseful thoughts on monotheistic governments
johannes kepler
german astronomer, writer, of music, mathematician, natural philosopher
voltaire
philosopher that believed everything is random and is a deis, french
voltaire
philosopher that believed everything is random and is a deist, french, wrote LISBON EARTHQUAKE
john locke
people are born with a blank slate, defended natural rights, social contract, revoultion against unfair governments
rene descartes
freewill is an illusion, past is a continuous line, everything effects life, actions have causes
what is the mind/body split called?
cartesian dualism - physical and mental
jane austen
English novelist, unremarkable people in unremarkable everyday life
napoleon
french military commander
isaac newton
3 laws of motion, mathematics, physics
thomas hobbes belief
everything can be determined within the motions and interactions of the human body
Louis XVI
remove tax, increase tolerance towards Non-catholics, abolish death penalty for deserters
Anton Van
development of cells
Social Contract Theory
All man should have obligation to do things that happened to them to others
What did Descartes think freewill was?
an illusion
What is determinism?
making choices based on the past
Voltaire’s philosophical optimism
Survival is random, it was god’s plan
What was Handel’s nationality?
German
What was Vivaldi’s nationality?
Italian
What was bach’s nationality?
German
What was mozart’s nationality?
austrian
What was Beethoven’s nationality?
German
Who went deaf in his later years?
Beethoven
Handel’s style of music:
High baroque
Bach’s style of music:
Counterpoint
Beethoven’s style of music:
transitional
Mozart’s style of music:
Classical
Vivaldi’s style of music:
Instrumental music, concertos
Who had a sensitive ear/blinded eye?
Handel
Who worked at a girls’ orphanage for 35 years?
Vivaldi
Who was a choir master and organist?
Bach
Who was a genius and famous at a young age?
Mozart
