MAPEH Classical Music Flashcards
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Classical Music Period lasted?
1750-1820
Start of the Classical period in music is also the start of?
The Industrial Revolution
Death of Bach?
1750
Baroque Music is
Ornate and extravagant
Europe moved toward a new style of literature, architecture, and arts referred to as
Classicism
This genre ought to replicate classical antiquity ideals to those of Greece
Classicism
This new style had cleaner, more organize divisions among parts, with cleared contrast and color, emphasizing simplicity instead of complexity.
Classicism
Strict rule, and influenced by the church
Baroque music
Baroque and Classical Harmony respectively
Heavy ┃ light
Baroque and Classical texture respectively
polyphonic ┃ homophonic
Baroque and Classical Harmony respectively
seriousness, grandeur, extravagance, complexity ┃ clarity, elegance, balance, simplicity, organization
Baroque and Classical melody respectively
one melodic idea ┃ two or more contrasting themes
Baroque and Classical Rhythm respectively
forward, continuous motion ┃ flexible rhythmic patterns
Baroque and Classical mood respectively
one basic mood ┃ mood often changes
Baroque and Classical dynamics respectively
sudden change/ rise and fall ┃ gradual change, use of crescendo/decrescendo
Baroque and Classical ensembles respectively
10-40 musicians ┃ up to 60 musicians
Baroque and Classical instruments respectively
interchangeable ┃ not interchangeable
Baroque and Classical bass respectively
bass dictates the chords ┃ other parts may play the bass
Classical Music forms
Sonata, Sonata-Allegro Form, [Concerto, and Symphony (?)]
Most important Classical music form
Sonata
A long piece written for one or two instruments
Sonata
Can be played by orchestra or by only one i’ment. like a piano.
Sonata
What composers made sonatas for the piano
Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The most prominent development in music from during the Classical era.
Sonata-allegro form
Maintains a contrast between an orchestral ensemble and a smaller group or solo instrument to complement each Oher and highlight and showcase the soloists skills and abilities
Concerto
fast-slow-fast
Concerto
A large instrumental composition with three or more movements, similar to a sonata, but written for a full orchestra.
Symphony
More grand proportions and more varied elements than any other ensemble, performed by orchestra, introductory music to an opera
Symphony
Classical Composers
Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Grew up poor, successful soprano Vienna Cathedral.
Franz Joseph Haydn
Age 29 employed by one of the wealthiest families in Europe 30 years music for them, rich him
Franz Joseph Haydn,
One of the leading opera composers in 1770s-1780s
Franz Joseph Haydn,
106 symphonies, more than 90 string quartets, 62 piano sonatas, and 32 piano trios.
Franz Joseph Haydn,
Composed a total 340 hours of music
Franz Joseph Haydn,
Father of Symphony, invented the string quartet
Franz Joseph Haydn,
Musical prodigy, traveling musician first freelance musician
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
only composer to have written master works in nearly every genre of his time
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Married Constanze, a 19-year old Soprano
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Why Mozart music good at prodigy?
3 played clavier, 4 learned a piece in 30 minutes, 5 played professional harpsichord and violin, 6 performed for Euroyalty, 7 began composing his own music, 8 wrote symphonies, 10 listened to music once and wrote it all down from memory flawlessly, 11 wrote full-length operas.
Died at 56 coz of liver disease
Ludwig Van Beethoven
Practiced celibacy
Ludwig Van Beethoven
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