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b.(768-814)
Holy Roman Emperor
Crowned in 800 - 814
Was a pioneer in Gregorian Chants, created 500-600 -
FIrst set of rules in polyphonic music
- Vox principalis
- Improv
- Parallel 5ths, octaves
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Guido's most famous written work. It is a music treatise with a major development of the hexachord system. This is a scalar system built on modal music.
- 4 line staff
- relative pitch
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b.(1098-1179)
Notable female in music who was considered a saint.
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- Leonin: 1163- 1190
- Perotin 1190- 1225
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Years active: 1170- 1260
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ca. 1280
Creation of consonant and dissonant intervals
Consonance
- Perfect: Unison, octave
- Intermediate: Fourth and Fourth
- Imperfect: Major and minor thirds
Dissonances
- Imperfect: minor seventh, major sixth, whole tone
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b. (1300) ,d. (1377)
Continued troubadour/ trouvere tradition
4- roundeau style
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Demonstrates innovations in rhythmic notations
- Breve
- 9/8: Perfect time, major prolation
- 6/8: Imperfect time, major prolation
- 3/4: Perfect time, minor prolation
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b. (1325- 1397)
Created Landini cadences
Musica ficta -
- Johannes Gutenberg invented
- Made in France
- Created to mass produce the Gutenberg Bible
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- Was Josquin's last mass
- Known as the swan song
- Free flowing polyphony
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- "A mighty fortress is our god"
- Important for isorhythmetry
- Luther's best known hymn
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- English Madrigal music
- "The Gentle White Swan"
- The text draws an extended analogy between the gentle swan, who is thought to sing only at the sorrowful moment of his death, and the poet who sings at the moment of a much sweeter "death,"
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- Palestrina's best mass
- Written in honor of Pope Marcellus
- lots of 4th leaps followed by a step
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ca. 1580-88
A musical group based in Ferrara, Italy known for musical innovation of the concerto delle donne was the multiplication of the ornamented upper voices -
- Composed by Gabrielli in Italy
- One of the earliest pieces written for specifically brass
- Brass is divided amongst the cathedral
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- Opera style canons introduced
- arioso and recitativo introduced
- One of the earliest musical dramas
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- Begun by John Banister in London
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(1685-1759)
- Born same time as Bach, but the two never met
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(1685- 1750)
- One of most notable composers of Baroque period
- Most known for Art of Fugue, the Brandenburg Concertos, and the Goldberg Variations, and for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. as well as a few symphonies -
- Composed by Henry Purcell
- Performed by Josias Priest's girls' school
- Three act opera
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- Set of 12 concertos
- Each concerto had seven individual parts
- Published in Amsterdam
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- 6 concertos
- Highlight of the happiest moments of Bach's life
- Inspired by the Italian concerto Grosso style
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- Published in 2 books, in 1722 and 1742
- Preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys
- For solo keyboard
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- Music theory book
- Published in Paris
- Composed by Jean-Philippe Rameau. Published by Jean-Baptiste-Christophe Ballard
- Divided into 4 books
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(1732-1809)
- One of the most prolific composers of the classical era
- wrote 107 symphonies, 26 operas, 83 string quartets, 45 piano trios, 62 piano sonatas, and 14 masses -
- An easter offering, story about Christmas
- 3 part opera, but not in dramatic form
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(1745-1799)
"The Black Mozart" -
(1756-1791)
-Toured in (1762-1781)
- Lived in Salzburg (1774-1781)
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(1770-1827) - German composer and pianist
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Set the standard for intricacy in string quartets
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composed : 1786, published: 1800
- Mozart's most intimate and impression concerto
- Omitted trumpets and replaced with clarinets/oboes to create a dark atmosphere
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- Based on Don Juan
- "The dissolute man punished"
- Sung in italian
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(1791-1795)
Reflect's mozart's influence on Haydn
- trumpets became independent
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(1797-1828)
- Late classical/Early romantic -
- Fate Motive (Dun dun dun daaaah) ((He's going deaf))
- Cyclic
- A very significant symphony
- First time trombones were made standard in orchestra
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(1810-1849)
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- Based on a poem about a legend about a beast who brings youth into the afterlife
- This poem was turned into many musical renditions
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- By Ricordi
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- Only 2 movements
- He was diagnosed with an illness and so he continued onto other works he could complete
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- Final complete symphony
- first composer to Include chorus and voice
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- Comprised "idee fixe"
- a dream that he killed his beloved
- Recurring idea of longing for romance
- Supposedly he was on opium
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- famous dance miniatures
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- 21-piece set exclusively on piano representing various Carnival goers
- The music is remarkable because it is on four notes; Carnaval was subtitled Scènes mignonnes sur quatre notes, or Little Scenes on four notes. These four notes are A, B, C and E
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- Female composer !!
- 12 part piano suite (12 months)
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- each verse is slightly altered from the original verse
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- historical document on instrumental practice
- Technical study of western instrument
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- His last large orchestra work
- One of the most reputable violin concertos in history
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- 3 act opera
- Falling for the fallen women
- the story of verdi's love affair
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- American composer
- Use of afro-american and latin-american rhythms long before ragtime and jazz flourished
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- Richard Wagner
- 3 act opera
- Contains the trinity of love, sex, and death. An unholy trinity
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- Premiered in Russia
- His only completed opera
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- 4 act Opera
- Considered groundbreaking realism
- "Toréador Song” and “Habanera" became incredibly recognizable and unique to the opera
- Opera-comique
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- First performance at first festival in bayreuth
- The ring cycle
- Requires several nights of performance
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- (1833–97)
- Considered when brahm became pessimistic in expression
- his final symphony
- music for the future
- a tragic character to contrast his other symphonies
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- Symphonic poem
- 4 movements
- Used to have 5 movements
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- two part ballet
- its initial debut is considered a failure, but has gained significance as one of the most performed ballets
- based on a fairy tale
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- commissioned by the new york phil
- influenced by native american music and african american spirituals. also embodies melodies of indian music
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- inspired by David Belasco’s one-act play Madame Butterfly
- wanting to introduce realism
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