Midterm Testing Center Flashcards
Ripieno
the full orchestra
Concertino
small group of soloists
Concerto grosso
concerto made up of small group of soloists and the orchestra
symphony
composition for full orchestra, usually 4 movements
minuet and trio
3rd movement, dance like
emphfindsamerstil
German instrumental movement in 18th century, sensitive style
cyclicism
recurrence of theme in in several movements of a multi-movement work
Gluck’s Opera Reforms
- music should serve the text
- use only forms that agree with the drama
- eliminate showy ornament
- lessen contrast between recitative and aria
- return chorus to an important role
- adapt orchestra to suit the drama
Beethoven Early Period
- private genres
- takes classical forms, not much innovation but momentary surprises
- fluidity between string quartet and piano sonata- Pathetique and Moonlight
Beethoven’s Middle Period
- takes effects from early period and applies them to public works
- does more public works
- sometimes radical changes to internal structure
- extended second halves
- de-emphasiezes roles of I and V
- new instruments
- connects movements together
- cadential reinforcement
Beethoven’s Late Period
- classical models are optional
- not a lot of new music
- shift emotional weight to the final movement
- his works still continued to be played after his death
Bach’s Locations
- Arnstadt 1703-1707 (organist)
- Mühlhausen 1707-1708 (organist)
- Weimar 1708-1717(organist and court composer)
- Cöthen 1717-1723 (chapel master, works for Calvinist prince)
- Leipzig 1723-1750 (Kantor at St. Thomas Church)
German Music
faster harmonic rhythms, harmony travels across keys, illusionism, emotionalism, interesting and different
Italian Music
slow harmonic rhythm, focus on I and V harmony, redundant
Private Genres
piano sonata, string quartet, piano trio
Public Genres
symphony, concerto, opera
Beethoven’s 5th
takes a simple idea and creates an entire symphony out of it, can’t escape ba ba ba bums, cyclic, 4th movement in c major rather than minor, extended sections like coda and recapitulation,
Oratorio
orchestra, choir, soloists, ensembles, tells story without the stage and props, hardly any interaction between characters, generally a sacred subject, Handels Messiah
Opera
tells a story, usually not sacred, big production with stage and costumes,
Mozart Bio
- showed a lot of musical talent as a child
- traveled a lot with his father and was exposed to various musical styles
- kick out of his job and died poor
- devoted life to achieving perfection in his music
Transition from Baroque to Classical *
- music becomes lighter and clearer
- style galant (tasteful, elegant pleasing, J.C. Bach)
- Sturm und Drang (little random moments)
- Mannheim Orchestra
Water Music
Handel, outdoor music, harmonically static, repetitive
Handel
- 1685-1759
- German composer
- moves to London after living in Italy and Germany
- Oratorio
- Anglophile
The Messiah
Handel, oratorio, visual drama in put into the music, combines different national musical styles (french, italian, german, english)
Bach
- 1685-1750
- early stuff was keyboard, middle was orchestra, late was sacred
- considered old fashioned-kept Baroque alive until he died
- didn’t really travel much outside of a little bubble
- cantatas
- religious works
- fugue
The Well-Tempered Calvier
Bach, books of 24 preludes and fugues, range of emotions, organized by contrapuntal technique
Wachet auf
Bach, cantata, slow dotted rhythms, chorales
Brandenburg Concertos
Bach, written for private entertainment, concerto gross (2nd concerto is trumpet, flute, oboe, violin), 6 different concertos, light mood,
Vivaldi
- 1678-1741
- Italian
- Called Il Preste Rosso because of his red hair
- 500+ concertos (kind of generic and similar)
traveled a lot and was famous across Europe - pioneered the concerto grosso
Four Seasons
Vivaldi, 4 movements, based on a single rhythmic theme, virtuosic and illusionism, symbolic representations of season, stays primarily in the same key with the same two chords
Marriage of Figaro
Mozart, based on pay by Pierre Beaumarchais, comedy with serious overtones, servant female character that outwits the aristocrats, gives voice to growing mood of revolution
Symphony 39
Mozart, one of the last three, serene and genial, sense of fellowship and kindness
Symphony no 41
Mozart, elegant, also called Jupiter, triumphant
Symphony 40
Mozart, Sturm und drang influence, unusual/weird extensions and reputations, written almost entirely in minor, hopelessness, melancholy, occasional outbursts of passion
Lucio Sill
Mozart wrote when he was 16, old fashioned story, very Baroque, brings back chorus and ensemble, dramatic development through the music, other aria forms are used
Don giovanni
Mozart, tragicomedy, brings all the drama on stage that had been off stage before like killing
Mozart’s church music
written mostly in Salzburg, worked for Archbishop Colloredo who preferred missa brevis
Missa brevis
entire mass shrunken down or only part of a mass, 15 min of music only
Ave verum corups
Mozart last mass he ever writes, wrote it after he left the churh but was kind of randomly written
Requiem
Mozart, dies before completing it, commissioned by stranger, wanted his student Sussmayer to finish it when he died
Haydn
- 1732-1809
- one of 1st musicians to attain high social status based on his talent
- experimented with all musical forms of the time
- Father of the String Quartet
- Father of the Symphony-wrote more than 100
- slow introductions
- loved surprises-witty and humor
- motivic rather than thematic
- worked for Esterhazy family for the most part
London Symphonies/ Surpise Symphony
12 of them, Haydn, SS only has one surprise otherwise its normal, wake up people who fell asleep, wrote them when he went to London
Trumpet Concerto
Haydn, written for new keyed trumpet, didn’t write many concertos, was lower than any trumpet had played before
The Creation
Haydn, Oratorio, follows Handel’s Messiah- borrows some of his tricks, paints scene in music, concerto grosso for voices instead of instruments