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Medieval

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c1150-1400 
Hildegard
Leonin-
Perotin
 Machaut
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Hildegard

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  • medieval 1150-1400
  • Sacred monophony
  • Sing voice choir music
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Leonin

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medieval 1150-1400
polyphonic organum
single to multivoice possible hurdy gurdy
thin multi voice with recall

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Perotin

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medieval 1150-1400
late 12th century
thick polyphonic voice
with optional hurgy gurdy or pedal tone

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Machaut

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medieval 1150-1400
sacred/secular music
famous for being a poet and a composer
hurdy gurdy with possible singular male voice

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Renaissance

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1400-1600
Giovanni Palestrina
William Byrd
Josquin Des Prez
Claudio Monteverdi
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William byrd

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1400-1600 Renaissance

  • sacred/secular w/ polyphony & keyboard
  • choral church music with slow growing harmony
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Josquin Des Prez

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1400-1600 Renaissance

  • Most popular composer of this time with growing added harmony
  • cantus firmus style, but also developed the motet style
  • His motet/lasses show modern tonality
  • later abandoned cantus firmus for parody and paraphrase
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Claudio Monteverdi

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1400-1600 Renaissance
- secular/ sacred
gives development of opera
composer who transfers Ren-> Baroque

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Giovanni Palestrina

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1400-1600 Renaissance
sacred music
- the smooth style of polyphony vocal music

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Baroque

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1600-1750
Johann Bach
George Handel
Antonio Vivaldi 
Claudio Monteverdi
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Johann Bach

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1600- 1750 Baroque
instrumental vocal music
- harpsichordist, organist
- adoptive of rhythms textures from abroad

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George Handel

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1600- 1750 Baroque
- operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossis,
organ concerts

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Antonio Vivaldi

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1600- 1750 Baroque
virtuoso violinist
* The four seasons

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Claudio Monteverdi

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1600- 1750 Baroque
string player, choir master
sacred/secular
develepment of opera who transfered Ren-Baroque

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Classical

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1750-1830
ludwig Beethoven 
Wolfgang Mozart
Joseph Haydn
Franz Schubert
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Ludwig Beethoven

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1750-1830 Classical
pianist who transitions Classical to Early romantic
- like mozart shows the ability of showing emotion in music

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Wolfgang Mozart

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1750-1830 Classical
prolific/ influential
-symphonies sonatas operas
- shows emotion through music like beethoven

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Joseph Haydn

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1750-1830 Classical
development of chamber music such as piano trios
- string quartet and symphonies

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Franz Schubert

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1750-1830 Classical
vast oeuvre including 600 secular vocal works, 7 symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music, large body piano, and chamber music
- most known for lieder and chamber music

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Early Romantic

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1830-1860
Frederic Chopin
Tchaikovsky
Robert Schumann
Frans Liszt
Berlioz
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Late Romantic

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1860-1920
Wagner
Verdi
Puccini
Brahms
Dvorak
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Frederic Chopin

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1830-1860 E romantic

  • expressive piano playing
  • virtuoso pianist
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Tchaikovsky

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1830-1860 E romantic

- Swan lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nut Cracker

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Robert Schumann

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1830-1860 E romantic

  • piano music lieder
  • wrote about his wife in composition who was actually in love with brahms
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Franz Liszt

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1830-1860 E romantic

  • virtuoso pianist/ organist
  • solo recitals
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Berlioz

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1830-1860 E romantic

  • orchestral story telling
  • Symphony Fantastique
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Wagner

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1860-1920 Late romantic

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Verdi

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1860-1920 Late romantic
- Italian opera
old opera
Rigoletto*

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Puccini

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1860-1920 Late romantic
used operatic realism which brought Italian opera to an end
* Le Villi

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Brahms

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1860-1920 Late romantic
Genres- symphonies, concerti, chamber, music, piano works, and choral competition
- influence of folk music
*Wiegenlied
*Hungarian Dances - what you think of when you think of Russian dancers

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Dvorak

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1860-1920 Late romantic

  • Employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia symphonies
  • More expressive symphonies
  • New world symphonies

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