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Periods in Music History Flashcards

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Baroque period dates

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1600-1750

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Classical period dates

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1750-1830

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Romantic period dates

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1830-1900

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Contemporary period dates

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1900-present

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characteristics of the Baroque period

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  • polyphonic texture
  • use of ornamentation
  • improvisation
    • use of figured bass
  • dance suite
  • terraced dynamics
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what is a dance suite mainly consist of?

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includes many different dances performed together

  • allemande
  • courante/corrente
  • sarabande
  • gigue
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what are the optional dances in the dance suite?

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  • bouree
  • gavotte
  • passapeid
  • polonaise
  • anglaise
  • loure
  • air
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what is an allemande?

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dance in moderate 4/4 time with a short upbeat often using short running figures that are passed through a semi-contrapuntal texture

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what is a courante?

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a French dance in moderate 3/2 or 6/4 time which shifts from one of these meters to the other with free counterpoint and a shifting melody

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what is a corrente?

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an Italian dance with in quick triple meter with continuous running figures and homophonic texture

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what is a sarabande?

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dance in slow triple meter and dignified style; often accented with an accented or long tone in the second beat

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what is a minuet?

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a French country dance in 3/4 meter

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what is a bouree?

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a French dance usually in quick duple meter with a single upbeat

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what is a gavotte?

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a French dance in moderate 4/4 time with an upbeat of two quarter notes and with phrases usually beginning and ending in the middle of the measure

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what is a passapeid?

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a spirited dance in quick 3/8 or 6/8 meter

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what is a polonaise?

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a Polish dance of stately and festive character in moderate triple meter usually containing measure with a repeated rhythmic motive

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what is an anglaise?

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a dance in fast duple meter

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what is a loure?

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dance in moderate 6/4 time with dotted rhythms and heavy downbeats from the 16th and 17th century bagpipe term

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what is an air?

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a song/dance with melodic characteristics

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what is a French gigue?

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compound duple meter (6/8); contains dotted rhythms and large intervals, and has fugal texture

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what is an Italian giga?

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quicker, non-fugal, has running passages over a harmonic bass (less frequently found in Baroque)

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what are terraced dynamics?

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dynamics that increase or decrease by sections of music, as opposed to making crescendos and decrescendos

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