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476
START OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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Period: 476 to 1492
Instrumental music
Most instruments were only used in secular music.
-Chordophones:harp,psaltery,rebec...
-Aerophones:shawm,cornamuse,portative organ...
Mebranophones:square hand drum,tambor
Idiophones:tejoletas,idiophones
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Period: 504 to 604
POPE GREGORY THE GREAT
The first compiller of Gregorian chant, we call it like him in honour of him. -
Period: 504 to 604
Pope Gregory the Great
Gregorian chant was called like this in honour of Pope Gregory The Great -
Period: 600 to 800
GREGORY CHANT
The Roman Catholic Church compiled its liturgical plainsongs.
Characterictics:
- Monophonic texture
- Uses modal scales and and is in free time
- The text is in Latin, with a religious theme
- Performed by male voices, alternates between a soloist and a choir, or between two choirs. It was necessary to write them down, so the first symbols were called neumes and and they were written in the tops of trhe words. A neumatic notational system was used on a four line-stave -
Period: 600 to 800
STYLES OF GREGORIAN CHANT
Syllabic, one note per syllable. Neumatic, a small group of notes each syllable. Melismatic, a lot of notes per syllable. -
Period: 600 to 800
Gregorian chant
MAIN CHARACTERISTICS
-Monophonic texture
-It uses modal scales and is in free time
-It's in Latin with a religious theme
-It's performed by male voices https://youtu.be/kK5AohCMX0U -
800
FIRST RULES OF MUSICAL NOTATION
The first symbols were called NEUMES and they were written on the top of the words to show the changes of the pitch.
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Period: 800 to 1500
LITURGICAL POLYPHONY
A second voice was added to plainsong and the polyphony was born. Mensural notation included the first symbols related to metre ans asigned note values depending on the duration of the notes.
Polyphonic forms:
- Organum
- Discaunt
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Period: 800 to
SECULAR VOCAL MUSIC
-The composer is known.
-Monophonic texture, with instrumental accompanimet
-Composed with modal scales and rhythmic modes.
-Composed to entertain, about secular or religiouss topics and in the vernacular
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Period: 992 to 1050
GUIDO D´AREZZO
HE INVENTING THE GUIDONIAN HAND AND CREATED THE FOUR-LINE STAVE AND GAVE THDE NOTES THE NAMES THAT WE STILL USE TODAY. -
Period: 992 to 1050
Guido d'Arezzo
He created the four-line stave and gave the names of the notes
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Period: 1098 to 1179
HILDEGARD VON BINGEN
SHE COMPOSED A TOTAL OF 78 LITURGICAL PIECES OF MUSIC FOR HER CONGREGATION. -
1100
CARMINA BURANA
Carmina Burana is a famous collection of this type of composition and the manuscript dates back to the 12th and 13th centuries. -
1200
CANTIGAS DE SANTA MARÍA
There are written in songbooks, from the reign of King Alfonso X the Wise.
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1200
GOLIARDS
Who were wandering clerics or mendicant students. -
Period: 1400 to 1500
THE MODERN PERIOD AND THE RENAISSANCE
The modern period started with the fall of the Bizantine Empire in1453 and ended with the French Revolution in 1789.
The Renaissance was an influential cultural movement that started in Italy and spread all over Europe during the 15th and 16th -
1453
THE RENAISSANCE TEXTURES
Renaissance music developed new textures :
-Imitative counterpoint, several melodic lines that start at different times.
-Homorhythmic homophony, several similar melodic lines that move simultaneously.
-Melody-dominated homophonic, a main melodic line that can be identified with harmonic accompainment. -
1453
RELIGIOUS VOCAL MUSIC
Three forms:
-Motet, this form became the most important, religious and included more parts.
-Mass, long composition with liturgical text. In Latin.
-Chorale, the most common form in the Protestant liturgy based on pre-existing melodies sung in the vernacular -
1453
THE INTRUMENTAL FORM RENAISSANCE
-Compositions based on vocal music, tiento
-Compositions with an improvisational feel, toccata
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1453
SECULAR VOCAL MUSIC FROM RENAISSANCE
Italy; madrigal was the dominant form.
England; songs ,1 voice+instrumental accompainment
France; chanson ,several voices+instrumental accompainment
Spain; romance, villancico and ensalada -
Period: to
INSTRUMENTAL FORMS
Fugue: One movment, based on the same musical idea, performed by different parts that started at different times, giving imitative counterpoint
Suite: series of various dances with different character, rhytms and tempos, written for solist or for orchestra.
Sonata: consisted of four movments, alterning between fast and slows tempos. It was written for a max of three instruments and always in basso continuo
Concerto: Grosso: performed bay a group of soloists, concertino, dialogue with orchestra. -
Period: to
RELIGIOUS VOCAL MUSIC
New dramatic forms:
The Cantata was originally secular, but the church used it to spread its teaching, using texts that worshipped God. It consisted of a secuence of recitatives, arias and choruses. The Oratorio was similar to opera, but with a religious plot, a narrator and a large choir. The passion was similar to oratorio, but related exclusively to the passion and death of christ, and it was inspired by the gospels. -
Period: to
BASSO CONTINUO
Both vocal and instrumental music was composed with the texture of melody dominated homophony.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BLr7Yt_ehw -
Period: to
BASSO CONTINUO
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Period: to
BAROQUE DANCE AND BALLET
In the baroque period, dance in society was mainly courtly and refined, with precise, synchronised and choreographed movements that left no room for improvisation.
Chaconne: appeared in spain with slow tempo and triple metre
Ballet: appeared in france. This theatrical genre involved songs and dances performed by members of court dressed in luxurious costumes and masks. -
Period: to
BARROQUE MUSIC
In this period intrumental music became just as important as vocal music and the first works written for the orchestra appeared.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaCheA6Njc4&list=RDQMiJZWdHWO4Vk&start_radio=1 -
Period: to
THE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA
musicians came together to play in improvised groups -
Period: to
OPERA
Secular vocal form that aimed to revive classical greek theatre. In Italy the opera seria or dramatic opera, written in italian and based on mythology or heroic stories, was especially popular. After this, came the opera buffa or comic opera, written in vernacular. These operas sometimes criticised the wealthier social classes. -
Period: to
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi was a composer and priest from Venice.He was the violin teacher at the conservatory of the orphange of pieta and he wrote operas, oratorios and over 450 concertos. -
Period: to
Vocal music
Opera seria: https://youtu.be/Ba9K_T5ivTQ
Opera buffa:https://youtu.be/aiNDcJ7x30w
Religious vocal music:https://youtu.be/sPlhKP0nZII -
Period: to
Instrumental music
Woodwind instruments:
https://youtu.be/YT_63UntRJE
Brass instruments:
https://youtu.be/KgxuzMilgC8
Struck string instruments:
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Period: to
Instrumental forms
Sonata:performed by one or two soloists
Trio,quartet,quintet:composed for different chamber ensembles
Symphony:performed by orchestra
Concerto:performed by a soloist and the orchestra -
Period: to
The Classical period in Spain
-Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga stands out for his early talent,which got him the nickname 'the Spanish Mozart'
-Fernando Sor,was well known for his works for guitar -
Period: to
Music in the Romantic period
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Period: to
Compositions for piano
The piano developed technically and achieved a great expressive ability. Short pieces for solo piano: they were shorter than a sonata,simple and had a free musical structure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G6xMcUUbEA Chamber music:the piano was played in duets,trios,quartets and quintets
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20 CENTURY MUSIC
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20 CENTURY MUSIC IN SPAIN
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INSTRUMENTS OF THE 20 CENURY
ELCTROPHONES: https://www.youtube.com/user/Electrophones
IDIOPHONES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJBB7c8bFZA -
FIRST HALF OF 20 CENTURY
- IMPRESSIONISM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYOeH-EF00s
- EXPRESSIONISM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag18Np_JInY&list=PL8q5BmYRBCkIt24IIqpSSz6kGSj-AyGqo . ATONALITY AND 12 TONE TECHNIQUE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEY9lmCZbIc
- NEOCLASSICISM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShIYpjSYoZI
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SECOND HALF OF THE 20 CENTURY
- ALEATORIC MUSIC:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xabYn35ngaY
- MUSIQUE CONCRETÉ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q936mBiArZQ&list=PLUpIWHnoHbGx3FREl_0Lbwmr-jfYujkX3
- ELECTRONIC AND ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ephfK_MdihY&list=PL377912D603DB058B
- MINIMAL MUSIC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z21U56xpZWs&list=PLJHbfOc5Y6vrmPmD_Bq-_NtXemmbCSS3c