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Music History II- Classical Period Flashcards

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The lower class citizens can now have rights

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Humanitarianism

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Comedy Opera

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Opera Buffa

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Italian comic opera. Performed in two or three segments between the acts of a serious opera or play

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Intermezzo

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Serious Opera

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Opera Seria

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Italian poet who worked at the German imperial court in Vienna. Creator of Opera Serio

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Pietro Metastasio

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Expanded format: 2 vocal statements in the A section, which became that standard aria form in the 18th century

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Abbreviated Da Capo

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Member of the Royal Academy of Music. Amazing Italian soprano, married Johann Adolf Hasse.

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Faustina Bordoni

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Gave operas spoken dialogue. Despite the name these operas had serious plots.

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Opera Comique

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The English form of opera. Spoken dialogue and songs that set new words to borrowed tunes.

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Ballad Opera

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Satirized London society by replacing the ancient heroes and elevated sentiments of traditional opera with modern urban thieves and prostitutes and their crimes.

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The Beggar’s Opera

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New German genre. Featured spoken dialogue, musical numbers, usually centered on a comic plot of love

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Singspiel

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Movement to make the design more “natural” - more flexible in structure, more expressive, less ornamented, more varied musical resources. Alternated recitatives and arias more flexible

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Opera Reform

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Wrote French, Italian, and German operatic styles. Studied under Giovanni Battista Sammartini in Italy. Became court composer to Emperor Charles VI at Vienna. Under the patronage of Marie Antoinette in Paris. Collaborated with the poet Ranieri Calzabigi to produce Orfeo ed Euridce and Alceste

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Cristoph Willibald Gluck

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French term for the manners and attitudes cultivated at courts

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Galant

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German for “sensitive style.” Characterized by surprising turns of harmony, chromaticism, nervous rhythms, and rhapsodically free speech-like melody. Example: fantasias.

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Empfindsam

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Italian composer. Mainly focused on keyboard sonatas. One of the most original and creative keyboard composers of the 18th century. Composed operas, cantatas, and church music. Worked for the King of Portugal. 30 harpsichord sonatas, 555 sonatas. Used balanced binary form

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Domenico Scarlatti

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The elector Palatine’s court was one of the most active musical centers in Europe. This orchestra was internationally famous for its discipline and technique. Unprecedented dynamic range.

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Virtuoso organist, keyboardist, and violinist. Married his first cousin, and Anna Wilcke a court singer. He did private tutoring and served as a organ consult. Became a court musician as an organist and later as the concert master. Died after a stoke

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Principal ideas are presented. 4 phrases. 1 and 2 in tonic. 3 modulates either dominate or relative major. 4 in new key.

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Section 1 Sonata Form

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Any number of phrases. Begins with opening theme in dominant or another key. One or more keys distant from the tonic. Modulates back to the tonic with another melodic idea. Ends on the dominant chord to prepare for the return of the tonic.

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Section 2 Sonata Form

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Begins and ends with the tonic. Parallels the 1 section. Restates material 3rd phrase ends with a half cadence in the tonic. 4th and appendix phrase end in tonic. Emphasized by restatement in home key

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Part 2 Section 2 Sonata Form

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Orfeo ed Euridice
Alceste

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Der Tod Jesu (The Death of Jesus)

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Carl Graun

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Die Entfuhrung aus dem Seriat, The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute

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The Creation

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Li zite’ngalera (The Lovers on the Valley)
T’aggio mmidea

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Leonardo Vinci

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La serva padrona (The Maid as the Mistress)

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Giovanni Pergolesi

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L’Arecadia in Brenta

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Carto Goldini

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La Clamenza di Tito

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Pietro Metastio

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Digli ch’io son fedele

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Johann Hasse

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Le Devin du village

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Jean Jacques Rosseau

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Fidelio

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The Beggar’s Opera

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Tsefali Prokeis (Casdlkfjasd..

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Trained in church, choir boy. Did the patronage system- Prince Esterhazy. Longer Life. Operas are not commonly performed today. Known for string quartets. At the time was more famous, good and music was performed. Financially stable. Composed at keyboard.

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Haydyn Essay

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Good young musicians, Prolific. Symphonies, keyboard works, concertos, operas, string quartets.

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Similarities

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Trained by his father, at home. Freelancing. Prodigy. Short life. Operas are very well known. Wrote the Haydyn string quartets. Is known better today- prodigy, music wasn’t really performed. No one knows where his money went, but he made enough. Composed in his head.

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