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31 Cards in this Set
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Classical period |
1750-1820 Haydn, Mozart, and beethoven |
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Enlightenment |
The classical eras counterpart; the Age of Reason. |
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Opera Buffa |
Comic opera, it was usually social satire, had bawdy humor, and slight gags |
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Pianoforte |
The common piano, able to play both soft and loud at the same time. |
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Women on keyboards |
These types of lesson books were quite sexist and had very easy melodies as the woman mind can't handle counterpoint and harmony |
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Antecedent |
The initial part of a melody |
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Consequent |
What follows the antecedent |
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Alberti bass |
Spreading out a chord instead of playing the whole chord at once |
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Esterházy |
The wealthy aristocrats who winterwd in Vienna and summered on their extensive land holdings to the southeast |
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London Symphonies |
pieces by Haydn that he wrote in London and conducted in a series of concerts at the Hanover Square Rooms |
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Salzburg |
Mozarts birthplace |
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Freemasons |
An enlightenment fraternity that espoused tolerance and universal brotherhood. |
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Canon |
Standard repertoire of Western Classical Music |
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Symphony, First movement |
Sonata allegro, serious and substantive despite fast tempo |
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Symphony, second movement |
Large ternary, theme and variations, or rondo, lyrical and tender, slow |
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Symphony, Third |
Minuet and trio in ternary form, usually light and elegant and sometimes spirited, lively |
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Symphony, fourth movement |
Sonata-allegro, theme and variations, or rondo form; bright, lighthearted, sometimes humorous, fast |
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Ternary Form |
ABACABADABACABA |
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Minuet |
Dance tune in triple meter |
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Sonata allegro form |
ABA |
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Exposition (Sonata allegro form) |
Where the composer presents the main themes |
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Transition or bridge |
Carries the music through a key change to prepare for a new melody |
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Development (s a form) |
Further working out the theme, varied or extended |
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Recapitulation (sa form) |
The restatement of the exposition, not note for note |
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Theme and variations |
When melody is altered, decorated, or adorned in some way by changing pitch, rhythm, harmony, or even mode. |
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Binary form |
AB |
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Rondo form |
ABACA, ABACABA, or ABACADA. Refrain(A) and contrasting sections(b,c,d,e, etc) |
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Symphony |
Fast-slow-minuet-fast pattern |
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String quartet |
First violin, second violin, viola, and cello |
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Sonata |
Genre of chamber music played on solo piano or with a piano accompanist |
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Singspiel |
German comic opera written by Mozart |
