Music history Flashcards
Medieval
c1150-1400 Hildegard Leonin- Perotin Machaut
Hildegard
- medieval 1150-1400
- Sacred monophony
- Sing voice choir music
Leonin
medieval 1150-1400
polyphonic organum
single to multivoice possible hurdy gurdy
thin multi voice with recall
Perotin
medieval 1150-1400
late 12th century
thick polyphonic voice
with optional hurgy gurdy or pedal tone
Machaut
medieval 1150-1400
sacred/secular music
famous for being a poet and a composer
hurdy gurdy with possible singular male voice
Renaissance
1400-1600 Giovanni Palestrina William Byrd Josquin Des Prez Claudio Monteverdi
William byrd
1400-1600 Renaissance
- sacred/secular w/ polyphony & keyboard
- choral church music with slow growing harmony
Josquin Des Prez
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
Claudio Monteverdi
1400-1600 Renaissance
- secular/ sacred
gives development of opera
composer who transfers Ren-> Baroque
Giovanni Palestrina
1400-1600 Renaissance
sacred music
- the smooth style of polyphony vocal music
Baroque
1600-1750 Johann Bach George Handel Antonio Vivaldi Claudio Monteverdi
Johann Bach
1600- 1750 Baroque
instrumental vocal music
- harpsichordist, organist
- adoptive of rhythms textures from abroad
George Handel
1600- 1750 Baroque
- operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossis,
organ concerts
Antonio Vivaldi
1600- 1750 Baroque
virtuoso violinist
* The four seasons
Claudio Monteverdi
1600- 1750 Baroque
string player, choir master
sacred/secular
develepment of opera who transfered Ren-Baroque
Classical
1750-1830 ludwig Beethoven Wolfgang Mozart Joseph Haydn Franz Schubert
Ludwig Beethoven
1750-1830 Classical
pianist who transitions Classical to Early romantic
- like mozart shows the ability of showing emotion in music
Wolfgang Mozart
1750-1830 Classical
prolific/ influential
-symphonies sonatas operas
- shows emotion through music like beethoven
Joseph Haydn
1750-1830 Classical
development of chamber music such as piano trios
- string quartet and symphonies
Franz Schubert
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
Early Romantic
1830-1860 Frederic Chopin Tchaikovsky Robert Schumann Frans Liszt Berlioz
Late Romantic
1860-1920 Wagner Verdi Puccini Brahms Dvorak
Frederic Chopin
1830-1860 E romantic
- expressive piano playing
- virtuoso pianist
Tchaikovsky
1830-1860 E romantic
- Swan lake, Sleeping Beauty, Nut Cracker
Robert Schumann
1830-1860 E romantic
- piano music lieder
- wrote about his wife in composition who was actually in love with brahms
Franz Liszt
1830-1860 E romantic
- virtuoso pianist/ organist
- solo recitals
Berlioz
1830-1860 E romantic
- orchestral story telling
- Symphony Fantastique
Wagner
1860-1920 Late romantic
Verdi
1860-1920 Late romantic
- Italian opera
old opera
Rigoletto*
Puccini
1860-1920 Late romantic
used operatic realism which brought Italian opera to an end
* Le Villi
Brahms
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
Dvorak
1860-1920 Late romantic
- Employed rhythms and other aspects of the folk music of Moravia symphonies
- More expressive symphonies
- New world symphonies
