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46 Cards in this Set
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Can be describe as refined, elegant and useful |
Classical music |
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A style of high quality |
Classical style |
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(5) musical style during tha classical period |
1. Rhythm 2. Melody 3. Harmony 4. Tempo 5. Texture |
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The way the composer arrange notes in time |
Rhythm |
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A musical quality; the combination of pitches and rhythms. |
Melody |
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Segments in melody |
Phrases |
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Are sometimes irrregular in length but they are proportioned to the needs of the composition |
Mozart's phrase |
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Often used a melody or theme to develop musical ideas or motive with the use of four notes; by repeating and varying of these four notes, he developed a theme for the first part of hid composition "The Fifth Symphony" |
Beethoven |
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The sounding together of two or more notes |
Harmony |
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A characteristic speed, light and moderate of a piece of music |
Tempo |
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The musical quality of combined voices, instruments or parts with less use of imitative counterpoint |
Texture |
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A piece of music for one or two instruments having three or four movements in contrasting rhythms and keys |
Sonata Allegro |
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The most significant single movement form that can be regarded as one of tge nost satisfying forms of all music, because of its balance of repetition, variation and contrast |
Sonata allegro |
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Sum of relations of the chords or tonrd of a scale to the keynote |
Tonality |
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A key or system of tones stressing a particular tone as the basis of a passage of composition |
Tonality |
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(3) basic sections of sonata allegro |
1. Exposition 2. Development 3. Recapitulation |
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Where the main themes are prrsented and has its own internal forms the primary theme and the transition and related key section |
Exposition |
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Thematic materials from exposition undergo changes with frequent modulation |
Development |
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An open free-form section of the Sonata Allegro movement |
Development |
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All themes from the exposition are repeated in the tonic key |
Recapitulation |
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Variation of the exposition |
Recapitulation |
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An austrian composer, considered as one of greatest and most creative musical geniuses of all time. |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
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An unknown person commissioned him to do a ___ |
Requiem or Mass for the Dead |
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A musical piece for one or two instruments such as the piano sonata, flute sonata or sonata for flute and piano; usually in three or four movements |
Sonata |
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One of the greatest Austrian Classical composers; was able to composef music by studying the compositions of other composers |
Franz Joseph Haydn |
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Haydn composed |
100 symphonies |
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Known as the Father of Symphony |
Haydn |
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A sonata for orchestra |
Symohony |
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(4) movements of sonata |
1. Fast and Lively 2. Slow 3. Fast 4. Fast and Gay |
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Sonata allegro form usually in duple meter |
Fast and lively |
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Andante sonata form, theme and variation |
Slow |
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Minuete, triple meter with moderate tempo |
Fast |
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Sonsta form or rondo forn, usually in duple meter |
Fast and gay |
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Defined as a piece of music to be played by one or more principal instruments violin or piano with orchestra accompaniment |
Concerto |
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A three-movement work for an instrumental soloist and orchestra. |
Classical concerto |
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Greatest concert composer of the classical period |
Mozart |
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The 3 Movements |
1. Fast 2. Slow 3. Fast |
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Was born to a German family of musicians. He was recognized worldwide as one of the greatest musicians |
Ludwig van Beethoven |
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Most productive period of Beethoven |
Middle period |
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A dramatic works in which music forms the predominant part. It uses to elaborate and spectcular staging |
Opera |
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(4) Kinds of Classical Opera |
1. Opera Seria 2. Comic Operas 3. Singspiel 4. Opera Buffa |
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It employs mythological characters |
Opera seria |
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Were light ub miid anf portrayed everyday characters and events |
Comic operas |
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German comic opera |
Singspiel |
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Italian opera |
Opera buffa |
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A little more than a string of fantastic incidents Mozart's immortal melodies have made this onr of tgr great operas. |
Magic flute |