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39 Cards in this Set
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Name the periods of music history in chronological order |
1. Middle Ages 2. Renaissance 3. Early Baroque 4. Late Baroque 5. Classic 6. Romantic 7. Modern |
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Middle Ages composers |
Leonin Peroin Nun Hildegard |
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Renaissance Composers |
Dufay Josquin Palestrina Weelkes |
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Early Baroque Composers |
Corelli The Gabriellis' Monteverdi Purcell |
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Late Baroque Composers |
Bach Handel Vivaldi Scarlatti |
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Classic Composers |
Haydn Mozart |
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Transition Figure |
Beethoven |
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Romantic Composers |
Schubert Schumann Chopin Liszt Mendelssohn Verdi Wagner Tchaikovsky Brahms Berlioz |
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Modern Composers |
Debussy Stravinsky Schoenberg Berg Bartok Copland |
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What is an aria? |
A song in opera |
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What is a recitative? |
conversational dialogue |
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What is the overture? |
orchestra introduction |
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What is the plot? |
story in opera |
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what is a ritard? |
gradual decrease |
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what is a rubato? |
to increase or decrease |
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what is orchestration? |
choice of instruments |
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what is Lieder? |
Piano & voice in a small, intemate setting; German poet songs |
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what is consonance? |
sounds pleasing to the ear |
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what is dissonance? |
sounds displeasing to the ear |
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what is tonality? |
having a tonal center |
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what is atonality? |
lacks a tonal center |
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what are some major works of Beethoven? |
•9 symphonies •32 piano sonatas •9 symphonies•32 piano sonatas •5 conertos•1 fidelio •5 conertos •1 fidelio |
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What are 3 facts about Schubert? |
•First true Romantic composer •One of the world's greatest melodists • wrote over 600 lieder |
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3 facts about Schumann |
•Married to Clara •Suffered from depression •ended career trying to help his 4th finger |
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3 facts about Chopin |
•Nationalistic composer whose music has Polish flavor •Mozart of the Romantic period •Poet of the piano; wrote Polonaise |
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3 facts of Liszt |
•Greatest pianist of the 19th century •played for Beethoven at 11 • Inspired by Paganni |
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3 facts of Mendelssohn |
•Pianist, writer, violinist, linguist •Very wealthy family •Jewish |
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3 facts of Verdi |
•Wrote Italian opera •Tragedy made him give up •Returned to writing and married again |
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3 facts of Wagner |
•Put music to his own words •LOTR inspired by German opera The Ring •Left his first wife |
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3 facts of Brahms |
•Affair w Clara Schumann •Wrote in Classic form w Romantic emotion •Sonata form w Classic structure |
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3 facts of Berlioz |
•Orchestral conductor •First famous composer to tour w orchestra •wrote SF for wife |
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3 facts of Debussy |
•French Impressionist •1st modern composer •1 daughter, Claude Emma |
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3 facts of Stravinsky |
•shocked 1913 w ballet •Citzen of Russia, France, and US •Innovator, wrote Rite of Spring |
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3 facts of Schoenberg |
•Taught at UCLA •invented 12 tone music •Best teacher since Bach |
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3 facts of Berg |
•Student of Shoenberg •known for modern opera •solider in WW1 |
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3 facts of Bartok |
•Hungarian- collected hungarian folk songs •one of first modernistic composers to use technology •fled Hungary for NY |
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3 facts of Copland |
•Born in America • Patriotic and wrote movie background music •Conductor |
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4 works Chopin wrote for piano |
•Nocturnes •Polonaises •Ballades •Mazurka |
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Compare art and music of the Impressionistic period |
Art: soft pastel colors and blurred outlines Music: softer dynamics, blurred sounds Petal used to create overlapping sound. a beautiful blur |
