Music History

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Classical Era

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1720-1800 (18th Century)

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Touchpoints for Classical Era

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Art, Architecture (Greek Parthenon, Palladio's Villa la Rotonda, Jefferson's Monticello home)

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Music

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Stability, Rationality, Clarity, Balance, Emotions, and Drama but never without sense or balance and clarity

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Why is it called "Classical"?

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looks back at ancient Greek culture

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Predominant Texture

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Homophonic and Polyphonic but with strong sense of melody and accompaniment

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Composers

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven

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Mozart:

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Eine Kleine Nachtmusik ("A Little Night Music") string serenade

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Mozart=

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freelance composer pianist in Vienna and Court composer for House Party Music

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Sonata Form Structure

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a ternary structure

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3 part structure

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Exposition. Main themes revealed. Often contrary or different moods. 2 development. Bits and pieces of themes used in different ways feeling of instability sometimes confusion 3 Recapitulation. Re-statement of main themes leads to closing of the movement sometimes extra music at the end

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Coda

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section reinforces the finality and closing of the movement can be short or long

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Beethoven:

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5th Symphony (1808)

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Beethoven=

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freelance composer and virtuoso pianist in Vienna

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Beethoven structure

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Sonata form also but more dramatic uses small ideas like theme 1= shortshortshortlong and builds on them

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Swing Man

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Beethoven from Classical to Romantic Era

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Romantic Era

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1800-1900

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Touchpoints of Romantic Era

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greater emotional expression in music even when using traditional structures like Sonata Form

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Type of music the Romantic Era is

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heightened interest in nature, drama, extreme expression of emotions , mysticism, the "darkside", music harmonies may not resolve as we would expect (the ambiguity of life)

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Composers of Romantic Era

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Beethoven, Franz Schubert, and Robert Schumann

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Beethoven Sympathy #5 in Romantic Era

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uses classical sonata form but with way more expression than normal: dynamic extremes ("shock value")

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1st Movement of Romantic Era

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Recapitulation OBOE SOLO. Sense of "one person's voice as an individual vs the big world of humanity and nature"

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Artist of Importance in the RE

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Caspar David Friedrich "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog"

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Franz Schubert

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Song (Song="Lied", in German) the Erlking

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Franz Schubert's Song

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super dramatic deals with death anxiety the devil innocence of the child psychological profiling of traditional roles: men=strength and security women=nurturing child= innocence and etc

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Franz Schubert song structure

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through composed listener follows the story from beginning to end driving triplet rhythm never stops until the end

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Modern Era

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1900-present

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Song Form

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aka 32-bar form aka aaba flintstones theme song over the rainbow b section is called the bridge it connects the a sections

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Verse-Chorus

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Jingle Bells aka "The one horse open sleigh" seasons of love from the show Rent (Jonathan Larson)

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Verse-Chorus-Bridge

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Alicia Keys No One bridge section happens once followed by repeat of chorus

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Strophic Form

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Amazing Grace Bob Dylan Masters of War repeated poetic lines (strophes)= same music but different words. words generally tell a story to repeated lines (strophes) of music

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Through Composed

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The Erlking Imogen Heaps hide and seek west side story a boy like that defies a set structure rather it tells a story which we follow from beginning to end no catchy chorus section to speak of often a few moments of different song forms put together in one larger song

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American Musical Theater

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beginnings Minstrelsy and Vaudeville

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Minstrelsy

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Blackface, patronizing black experience in America Plantation life slavery reconstruction thru 1920s

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Al Jolson

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white performer very famous and known for entertaining in blackface 1920s- late 1940s

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Vaudeville

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skits of varying kinds no plot one skit may be minstrel song in blackface or a blackface skit but it's a variety of different acts also with trained animals slap stick humor etc

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West Side Story

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music Leonard Bernstein lyrics Stephen Sondheim

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