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The Baroque Period (1600-1750)
more elaborate musical ornamentation, made changes in musical notation, and developed new instrumental playing techniques. Baroque music expanded the size, range, complexity, and also established opera as a musical genre
Classical Period (1750-1820)
Classical music expressed melodic differences and instrumental color.
Beethoven is also know to be a romantic composer and was a bridge from the classical to the romantic period.
Romantic Period (1850-1910)
The romantic period evolved from the ideas of previous composers from the classical phase, but also went further into their expressions of their own feelings and love.
Composers in the romantic era included Ludwig van Beethoven,
Franz Schubert, and Richard Wagner.
The music usually had about 30-40% dissonance and around 60% consonance.
Impressionism (1875-1945)
The impressionism period used whole tone and pentatonic scales and overlapping rhythms and orchestration techniques
Pointillism (1883-1945)
Pointillism can be described by different musical notes made in seclusion, rather than in a linear sequence, giving a nice sound texture.
Mozart (1756-1791)
Classical Period Composer.
Mozart specialized in many different types of music symphonic, concertante, chamber, operatic and choral music.
He almost single-handedly developed and popularized the Classical piano concerto.
Haydn (1732-1809)
Was one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the classical period. Hayden wasn’t exactly like Mozart, Hayden had music that establishes the dominant key is similar or identical to the opening theme.
Beethoven (1770-1827)
composed music that served as a crossing between the Classical and Romantic periods of music. His life started with classical composition but later in life he forecasted the Romantic period. American Revolution. French Revolution. Napoleonic Wars. Congress of Vienna.
Romantic Period COmposers
Brahms [1833-1897] Tchaikovsky [1840-1893] Schumann [1810-1856] Dvorak [1841-1904] Chopin [1810-1849] Liszt [1811-1886]
Decorative Pitches
Terms used to describe specific application of dissonance in classical music.
Passing tone
non-harmonic note inserted for transition between harmonic notes. A passing tone is approached by a step and is resolved by a step. Passing tones is one of the most common types of decorative pitches.
Accented Passing tone
an accented passing tone is a type of passing arrives on an accented beat in the measure
Suspension
The prolongation of one or more tones of a chord into a following chord to create a temporary dissonance. A suspension arrives by sustain and is solved by step.
Appoggiatura
A grace note performed before the note of the melody and falling on the beat. An appoggiatura is approached by leap and resolved by step. Leap to a dissonance pitch and resolve by step.
Neighbor/Auxiliary tone
A decorative pitch approached by step and returns back to the consonant pitch by step.
Escape tone
: a decorative pitch approached by a step from a chord tone and left by a skip in the opposite direction.
Anticipation
An anticipation is approached by step and resolved by sustain. You can find composers such as Bach using this technique and style.
Opera
is a stage work where nearly all the lines are sung. They exist in every culture, the most generally popular being Italian and German operas.
Oratorio
is like an opera but not staged; a concert piece.
Cantata
is a concert piece, like a short oratorio, for choir and instrumental ensemble.
Agogic Accents
which is perceived solely because of long duration of duration, not due to increased volume or pitch variation.
Simple meter
involves two subdivisions for each principle beat and can be expressed as duple, triple, or quadruple, indicated in the meter signature with a top number of 2, 3, or 4 accordingly.
Compound Meter
involve three subdivisions for each principle beat and can be expressed as duple, triple, or quadruple, indicated in the meter signature with a top number of 6, 9, and 12 accordingly.
Motive
the smallest unit of musical design, three to five notes with an intriguing interval structure and compelling rhythm.
