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Years of classical era

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1750-1820

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Enlightenment

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The age of reason

Pursuit of truth, natural law

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Comic opera

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Everyday people and situations

Satire of pompous and incompetent aristocrats

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Antecedent phrases

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The beginning of a piece that sounds incomplete alone

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Consequent phrases

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Ending of a piece that completes entire song

Brings closure

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Born in Salzburg, Austria

Most famous musical prodigy when kid

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Viennese School

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School created by Beethoven, Mozart, and Haydn

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Ternary form

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(ABA)

Principle of presentation, contrast, and return

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Esterházy Family

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The family Haydn worked for 30 years

Considered as a musical servant

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Frank Joseph Haydn

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Spent life in Austria
Choirboy
Musical instructor and church musician

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London symphonies

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Symphonies Haydn composed when he traveled to London twice

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Minuet and trio

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A genre of music

3 sections: minuet - trio (triple meter) - minuet

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Serenade

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Light, multiple movement compositions

For strings/small orchestra

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Sonata-allegro form

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Within each movement there is drama and conflict

  • exposition
  • development
  • recapitulation
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Exposition

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Presents main thematic material

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Development

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Where music goes off

“Crazy notes” if desired

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Recapitulation

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Thematic idea returns to original order

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Coda

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Piece at the end of a movement to show that song almost over

Length and content varies

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Theme and variation

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Theme altered continually making each variation different

It progressively gets more complicated

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Rondo

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Refrain (repeated line) continually returns
5-pattern: ABACA
7-pattern: ABACABA/ABACADA

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Genre

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General type of music
-symphony
-string quartet
Etc.

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Symphony

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Recurred of a large ensemble because of a big audience

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Köchel number

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The one who identified Mozart’s 600+ compositions

By Ludwig Von Köchel

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String quartet

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2 violins
1 viola
1 cello
Created by Haydn

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“Heroic” period

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Middle period 1803-1813

Common symp. No.5 in C minor 1st mvmt.

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Opera buffa

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Same as comic opera but for Italians

The use of everyday characters and situations

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Finale

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Italian for “end”

Of a sonata, symphony or quartet

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Sinfonia

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A harmonious sounding together

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Vocal ensemble

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Multiple characters sing simultaneously

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Sonata

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Soloist + piano
3 movements: fast - slow - fast
Done for public entertainment

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Cadenza

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Usually improvised extremely fancy notes played possibly by soloist

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Alberti bass

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The spreading of notes to provide a stream of notes

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Salzburg

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Mountainous town in Austria where Mozart was born

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Freemasons

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Some type of group that played music?

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Solo concerto

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A single soloist (pianist, violinist, cellist, etc) commanded all the audiences attention

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Classical symphony orchestra

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Symphony orchestras went from private courts to large public auditoriums

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Singspiel

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Spoken dialogue replaces recitative

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Pianoforte

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“Soft-loud” essence

Gradual dynamic change

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Scherzo

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Mvmt. Of light, playful character

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“Pathétique” sonata

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Most virtuosic than any other sonata by Beethoven

Extreme dynamics, range and tempo

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Don Giovanni

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An opera buffa (comic opera) by Mozart

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“Eroica” (“Heroic”) symphony

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1803

Grandiose, heroic style

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Heiligenstadt testament

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1802
Song by Beethoven that shows anger
Well know symphony

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Ludwig van Beethoven

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Born 1770, died 1827

By 1817 he was completely deaf

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Ode to joy

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Symp. No.9 4th mvmt. 1824

First symphony to include chorus

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