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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3
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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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characteristics of the Classical period

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  • homophonic texture - obvious cadence points - Alberti bass - Sonata form
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characteristics of the Romantic period

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  • programme music - colorful harmonies - lyric melodies - complex rhythmic patterns
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characteristics of the Contemporary period

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  • less use of major and minor tonalities - quartal harmony - bitonality - polytonality - atonality - irregular and changing meters - polyphonic texture - Neo-Classic writing (return to Classical forms, i.e. Sonata form) - serial music - twelve-tone music
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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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15
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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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composers of the Baroque Period

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  • J.S. Bach
  • Corelli
  • Handel
  • Rameau
  • Scarlatti
  • Telemann
  • Vivaldi
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composers of the Classical Period

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  • Beethoven
  • Clementi
  • Czerny
  • Diabelli
  • Haydn
  • Mozart
  • Kuhlau
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composers of the Romantic period

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  • Brahms
  • Chopin
  • Grieg
  • Liszt
  • Schubert
  • Schumann
  • Tchaikovsky
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composers of the Contemporary Period

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  • Bartok
  • Britten
  • Copland
  • Dello Joio
  • Kabalevsky
  • Poulenc
  • Prokofiev
  • Shostakovich