Classical & Romantic Flashcards
Accompanied keyboard sonata
A keyboard soloist and another instrument is accompanying it
Alberti bass
Broken chord that goes root → fifth → third → root etc
Harmonic rhythm
The rate at which chords/harmony change
Periodic phrasing
melodic structure often balanced phrases, called the antecedent and the consequent, that are played in succession
Charles Burney
a keen eighteenth-century music observer and author
C. P. E. Bach (Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach)
S.O.B; composer who used empfindsamer Stil in his compositions
J. C. Bach (Johann Christian Bach)
J. S. Bach’s youngest son, known as “the London Bach,”; among the first to compose piano concertos
Double return
simultaneous return to the tonic key and the main theme at the start of the exposition; “return to the home key.”
The Enlightenment
The age of reason, an intellectual movement of the century
Galant
elegant, sophisticated
Christoph Willibald Gluck
achieved a synthesis of French and Italian opera that made him the man of the hour
Opera buffa
Comic opera in a full-length work with six or more singing characters singing throughout
Opera seria
(Italian, “serious opera”) Eighteenth-century GENRE of Italian OPERA, on a serious subject but normally with a happy ending, usually without comic characters and scenes
Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi was an early master of the comic intermezzo
D. Scarlatti
prominent keyboard composer active in the middle decades of the century; Italian but worked in Spain, wrote keyboard sonatas in binary form
