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Francois Couperin
French composer who wrote in the Rococo Style -
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Jean-Philippe Rameau
French composer and theorist, tried to establish a rational foundation for harmonic practice, “Treatise on Harmony”(1722) the beginning of theideas of modern music theory -
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Pietro Metastasio
Court poet in Vienna: primary librettist for opera seria in the late Baroque and Classic periods, incredibly famous as a librettist: set the standard for opera style circa 1750 -
Invention of the Pianoforte
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Worked in Berlin for Frederick the Great (Frederick II) who reigned over the Kingdom of Prussia from 1740 to 1786, -
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Charles Burney
Organist, amature composer, writer, and music scholar -
The start of the classical style
It developed in the 1730s in Italy beginning in opera -
Thematic Development
Composers and works judged by how themes are developed
Cadences define sections of forms
Motivic Development: a short musical idea that is used as the basis of a piece – think Beethoven 5 mvt. 1 -
Rondo Form
based on the notion of a main refrain (A) that is repeated, ABACABA -
Rounded Binary Form
2 sections, the second section usually ends with a partial return of the first section, A BA' -
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Classic Style Musical Traits
Singable melodies, symmetrical phrasing, easier harmonies, simple relationships of V to I, slower harmonic rhythms, easy accompanimental figures as opposed to the difficult figured bass of the Baroque -
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The Rococo Style
Rococo is “over-the-top” in ornamentation and decoration, French, Many ornaments including trills, turns, grace notes, in the classical period everything simplified and became more “natural:” less ornamented and decorated -
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Empfindsamkeit
The style of Empfindsamkeit desired to be, above all, simple and expressive of “natural” feeling, the primary composer of this style was the eldest son of J.S. Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach(1714-88), this style strove to be “natural” -
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Franz Joseph Haydn
One of the most original and inventive composers, lived under Esterhazy's court for most of his adult career, was not allowed to sell his music at first because it was property of the court, composed many string quartets, 104 numbered symphonies, composed nearly 25 operas -
Invention of the Symphony
Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700-75) invented the symphony in Milan, Italy -
Scherzo
Replaced a minuet in a multi-movement work, similar to a minuet, but usually faster and more vigorous, scherzo = “joke” or “jest” in Italian, same form as a minuet: ABA -
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William Billings
One of our first American composers, a tanner, taught himself to compose music, his first publication was “The New-England Psalm-Singer” (1770) -
The First String Quartets
The inventor of the string quartet genre was Franz Xaver Richter (1709-89), first composed in the 1750s, it was a prestigious chamber music genre; appealed to aristocratic social life -
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Antonio Salieri
popular composer in Vienna, composed many operas in Italian, German and French -
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Maria Anna Mozart
Mozart’s older sister: often described as equal in talent and skill, toured with Mozart during her childhood, when she was twelve, Leopold Mozart said that she was one of the most skillful players in Europe -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A child prodigy, keyboard virtuoso, a good violinist and dancer, Musical influences from his travels: learned the Italian style during his three trips to Italy between 1769 and 1773, studied counterpoint with Padre Martini in Bologna, Influenced by music of Sammartini and other Italian symphonists, learned the current styles in Vienna in 1773, his music is most known for lyrical melodic lines, colorful orchestration and dramatic content -
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Maria Theresa von Paradis
Excellent pianist and organist, renowned for her remarkable musical memory (60 concertos at a time), blind, composed two concertos, a piano trio, songs, cantatas, operas, and other chamber music -
Opera Buffa
Comic operas with more realistic characters and serious topics, Mozart wrote 3 very famous opera buffa -
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The Industrial Revolution
Made mass production possible -
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Sonata Form
The most widely used form in the 1770s and 80s for symphonic and chamber pieces, Mozart heard numerous pieces with the form, and, like every other composer of the day, wrote many pieces with the form -
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The American Revolution
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Le nozze di Figaro
Dramma giocoso in four acts, based on a play that had been banned in France -
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The French Revolution
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Symphony No. 100 in G major
One of the London (Salomon) Symphonies, used trumpet fanfares, Turkish military percussion instruments -
String Quartet in C Major, Opus 76, No. 3 (1797), Mvt. 2
Theme and variations -
Minuet and Trio
Overall structure is A B A, Minuet is A, Trio is B and Minuet is A again