Classical Flashcards
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3 important types of music?
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Reform opera -Gluck made It opera more natural, focus on narrative, less on solo singer
Solo keyboard music -son of Bach used fortepiano since you could express more dynamically
Introduction of symphony -multi-movement works
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Time periods
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1750-1820
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Mozart created…..
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Toured Europe as child prodigy, resided in Vienna (Italian opera dominated)
He wrote Italian buffa (comic) yet went beyond and included social/moral issues
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Characteristics of music?
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Simpler melodies
More structured modulations than baroque
Orderly, balanced, clear
Complex counterpoint -intellectual music!
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Many composers influenced by…..
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Literary romantics
Poems were set to music (German poems)
Solo singer and piano -known as Lieder “songs”
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Forms include….
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Concerto Symphony Sonata Serenades Opera String quartets
