Music Appreciation Study Sheet Properties of Sound: 1. Pitch- Frequency of vibrations ● Overtones (makes up pitches). They are responsible for our unique voiceprint. They are located above the fundamental. ● Everyone has a unique voice print 2. Timbre- Color and quality. A tool by which we identify different voices and instruments. Very subjective- differently interpreted and heard and described. Ex: Gloomy‚ dark‚ clear‚ bright‚ harsh‚ rough‚ delicate‚ wide‚ narrow. ● Every person in the
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long and sustained crescendos‚ and sonata form. Motifs are sounds that are repeated throughout the song in different ways. The piece opens with a four note motif. Beethoven also includes long crescendos that elevate the volume from quite to loud. He ends this work with the longest and most thrilling conclusion he has written. And finally‚ the Sonata form promises that the work will change in an organized way‚ to make the music more dramatic. The sonata
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THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (1775-1825) The Baroque period culminated in the masterpieces of J.S. Bach and G.F. Handel. In the middle of the eighteenth century‚ contemporaneous with the mature years of Bach and Handel‚ a new musical style developed that is known as Rococo or preclassical style. This style is most evident in keyboard and orchestral music‚ but it is mentioned here because it represented a transition from the Baroque to the Classical era‚ occurring between 1725 and 1770. In the world of painting
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2014 The Role of Eros in The Kreutzer Sonata and Death in Venice The interplay of love and sexuality within humanity has been explored for thousands of years. This theme has shaped and continues to shape mankind on a daily basis‚ so it is not surprising that this topic can be found in literature of every era dating from the present to ancient times. Specifically within European literature of the 18th and 19th century‚ Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata and Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice concentrate
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refers to the music from specifically 1730 – 1820‚ the period of time between the Baroque and Romantic era. Classical music pays careful attention to form‚ elegance and restraint‚ and it is defined by a number of forms such as sonata‚ symphony‚ concerto‚ theme and variation‚ as well as rondo‚ which become dominant during that time‚ especially sonata form. Research has revealed that with its rhythm and melody‚ it could have positive impacts to the brain and benefits the people when they are listening
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Dana Butler 12/08/14 Music of the 18th Century Derived from the Portuguese barroco‚ or “oddly shaped pearl‚” the term “baroque” has been widely used since the nineteenth century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750. Comparing some of music history’s greatest masterpieces to a misshapen pearl might seem strange to us today‚ but to the nineteenth century critics who applied the term‚ the music of Bach and Handel’s era sounded overly ornamented and exaggerated
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minor ‚ Op. 37 a)The "Beethoven Concerto"s and Op. 37’s Placement in the Genre and as a continuation of Mozart’s Style b)Reception of the concerto-specifics of the concerto in a broad view c)Formal and musical analysis with respect to the Concerto Form in the Classical Style (As a precursor of Romantic Age) d)Conclusions a)Beethoven Concertos According to commonly agreed placement of this concerto among others‚ the way that it still carries features of a classical concerto-but with a few innovations
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the sacred genres of the Medieval period? 15. Who are the main Medieval composers? 16. The difference between a cantata and a sonata; 17. Know what a lute (a kind of stringed instrument) looks like; 18. Dates of the Baroque Period; 19. Characteristic qualities of harmony during the Classical period; 20. The names of the sections of a Classical Sonata-Allegro form; 21. The Romantic Period dates 22. Who created plainsong? 23. Who are the main Renaissance composers? 24. Who are the main Baroque
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two composers under discussion here each created works that are a hybrid of other forms and sonata form. Haydn did not create sonata form‚ but he was a master of it. His grasp of form was excellent‚ and at the same time‚ he took a few liberties with his conception of it. Haydn was fond of the false recapitulation. A false recapitulation is a device that can be used near the end of the development section of a sonata form movement. Aside from a false recapitulation‚ Haydn was fond of surprising the
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The classical era brought about a plethora of changes which drove western music into a brand new direction. Whereas the Renaissance period brought about enlightenment and the breaking away of traditional religious music‚ and the Baroque period exploding the provisions of artistic expression‚ the Classical period came back to square one and established systemized order. Although we no longer have the same verbosity of the Baroque era‚ the Classical period combined the elements of order and grace to
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