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Horizontal Music |
sheet music, melodic, a wave of notes |
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Vertical Music |
stacked notes, played at the same time |
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polyphony |
multiple melodies |
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monophony |
one melody |
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homophony |
when the instrumental fades away to allow the vocals/melody to have more emphasis |
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dissonance |
an awkward vertical sounding cord |
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What are some characteristics of Baroque music? |
dramatic emotional used dissonance strategically to create tension |
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What lead the birth of Opera? |
The reimagination of greek tragedies (with music) lead to the birth of Opera |
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Claudio Monteverdi |
First person to compose an Opera |
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Vivaldi |
-influenced Bach composed over 500 songs (each song can only be performed once) composed horizontal music which had both fast and slow movements |
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Bach |
used vertical and horizontal structures to get surround sound excelled at counterpoint (multiple melodies and weave them in complex ways) found all chords/keys on piano, thus tuning all of the other string instruments to play in the same key same chords/keys allowed multiple instruments to play at the same time |
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George Handel |
-one of the last baroque music composers (before transition to gospel) - composed hallelujah starts composing oratorios (operas w/o actors) |