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23 Cards in this Set
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Exposition |
theme is presented |
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Development |
heightened harmonic tension built in development; themes return |
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Recapitulation |
Resolution to tension built in development; themes return |
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Coda |
concluding section; in home key, optional; a way to round off the movement |
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Classical Period dates |
1750-1820 |
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Motive |
fragment of a theme that occurs throughout a piece |
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Cadenza |
unaccompanied showpiece for soloist; occurs at the end of the 1st movement |
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Sonata |
written for 1 or 2 instruments; 2, 3, or 4 movements; whole composition made up of several movements |
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Symphony |
written for orchestra; 4 movement pattern |
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Concerto |
3 movement work for instrumental soloist or orchestra (fast, slow, fast) |
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Requiem |
Mass for the dead |
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4 movement pattern |
fast slow variable fast |
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Joseph Haydn |
Austria; influenced by folk music and peasant dances; court musician; "Father of the symphony" |
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Mozart |
Austria; Child prodigy; freelance musician; successful as an opera composer; master of all genres and forms |
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Beethoven |
Germany; treated as nobility; started going deaf at age 29; 9 symphonies |
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Sonata Form |
single movement; usually first movement of symphony or sonata |
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Classical characteristics |
Contrast of mood; Rhythm, Homophonic texture, easy to remember melody; gradual dynamic change; End of basso continuo; Gallant style |
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Symphony No.94 in G major "surprise" Mvt 1 and 2 |
Haydn |
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Don Giovanni |
Mozart |
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Piano concerto No. 23 in A major |
Mozart |
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Requiem in D minor-Dies irae & Lacrimosa |
Mozart |
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Piano Sonata in C minor- pathetique mvt 1 |
Beethoven |
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Symphony No. 5 in C minor mvt 1 |
Beethoven |
