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1
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Basso continuo

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porposeful chord structure, requires 2 instrumentalists, organ and cello or basson

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Monody

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solo singer with accompaniment

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Recitative

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communicates the plot, heightened speach

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aria

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expresses the character’s emotions, passionate, tuneful

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Orfeo (Monterardi)

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The first important opera, uses recitative and aria

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chamber music vs orchestral music

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small chamber, large orchestra

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baroque orchestra

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violin family, no more renesance instruments,

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baroque “concertino”

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soloists in boraque orchestra

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baroque “tutti”

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orchestra in the orchestra

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Antonio Vivaldi

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baroque composer and violinist, made orphanage famous through orchestra

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concerto grosso

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two or more people

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Counterpoint

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multiple independent melodic lines

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Jahaan Bach

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famous for cantatas

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fugue

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low note sustained under different harmonies

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Georg Handel

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famous for his oratorios “messiah”

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16
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significance of classical era

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age of elightenment, industrial revolution

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composers in classical era

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Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven

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galante

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emphasized graceful melody

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animated homophony

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to make one instrument stand out

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periodic phrasing

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melodies structured like a question and answer

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Mozart

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had lots of operas and sonatas, compositions display diversity and expression

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sonata

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structured in 3 parts that work with the tonic

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Haydn

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“father of the symphony”, conducted Prince E’s personal orchestra

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subject (fugue)

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primary musical idea

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exposition (fugue)

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opening section of fugue

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episode (fugue)

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free section

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pedal point (fugue)

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low note sustained under several different harmonies

28
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Mozart’s Don Giovanni

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Mix of opera seria and opera buffa

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Haydn’s string quartet

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based on a hymn written by Haydn, anthem of Austria and now Germany, Single theme repeated in various ways

30
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Beethoven’s symphony #5 C major

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Four note motive

31
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Difference between Romantic and Classical

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Romantic more chill than classical

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Art Song

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composition for solo voice and piano accompaniment

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strophic

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same music for each stanza of the poem

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modified strophic

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alters the music at the some point

35
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through composed

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each stanza set to new music

36
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Franz Schubert

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composed Erlok Lied, composed more than 600 lieder

37
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Clara Wieck Schumann

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Piano prodigy, composed “If you loved for beauty”

38
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Frederic Chopin

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piano music based on polish folk dances, taught and published in paris

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Franz Liszt

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flamboyant personality, established the modern piano recital

40
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Absolute music

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Pure music without external reference

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programmatic music

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depicts events and emotions external to the music

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Hector Berlioz

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first composer to earn a livelihood as a music critic, obsessive and stuck in his ways, symphonic fantastique

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Johannes Brahms

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absolute music, proclaimed a “musical messiah”

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absolute music

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followed format of classical symphony, longer movements

45
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Realistic Opera

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Vulgar with aesthetic value

46
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Social realism

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characters from poorer social stratum (Bizet’s Carmen)

47
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Richard Wagner (German Opera)

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controversial, wrote musical dramas

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Leitmotif (leading motive)

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brief unit of music that represents a character, object, or idea

Multiple leitmotifs can happen at the same time

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Atonality

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music with no tonal center (Schoenberg)

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Serialism

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Pitches arranged according to tone values to equalize all 12 pitches

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Expressionism

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expresses the dark side of the mind, life, and experiences (Germany)

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Primitivism

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quest to get back to the origins inspired by pre historic sources (Stravinsky)

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Traditionalism

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composers maintain strong ties to tonality/ audience friendly (Copeland)

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Avant Garde ism

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development of new music, ditching European methods of music making

55
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John Cage

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chance music, favored sounds not music

56
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Minimalism

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Uses tonal centers, but structured by cycles of repetition

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