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THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1400-1600)
• Musical characteristics•Vocal music• Text-based/ Word painting• Polyphonic• Imitation•Choral music=no accompaniment•Step-wise, rarely skips or leaps
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JOSQUIN DES PREZ
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Josquin.jpg
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http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina.png
GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA
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ORLANDO DI LASSUS
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orland_di_Lassus.jpg
THE BAROQUE PERIOD (1600-1760)
• Musical characteristics•Stays in major or minor•Dance music• Forward motion•Uses more skips and leaps•Ornamentation•Soprano and bass lines important•Basso continuo/ Figured Bass
• Cello and harpsichord
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Purcell_by_John_Closterman.jpg
HENRY PURCELL
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GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Frideric_Handel_by_Balthasar_Denner.jpg
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Sebastian_Bach.jpg
CLASSICAL ERA (1730-1820)
• Musical characteristics•Contrast of mood•More movement between major and minor keys
•Rhythm• Texture•Melody•Dynamics and the piano• The end of basso continuo
MUSICAL EXAMPLE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO-ecxHEPqI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music
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http://www.biography.com/people/wolfgang-mozart-9417115
Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart
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http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/ludwig%20van%20beethoven
Ludwig Van Beethoven
ROMANTIC ERA (1815-1910)
• Musical characteristics• Love of nature• Emotion vs. rationality•Artist as the creator•Nationalism, Exoticism, and the Supernatural• Leitmotif• Poetry•More chromaticism
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/romanticism-characteristics-of-romanticism.html
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http://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Wagner/+images/40428355
Richard Wagner
http://snd.sc/11x7wQE
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a)Renaissance Era
All audio music used on this slide can be found at www.search.creativecommons.org
Polyphonic
Imitation
Step-wise, rarely skips or leaps
NAME THAT ERA!Example #2: http://snd.sc/ZGq93g
a)Classical EraContrast of mood
Dynamics and the piano
The end of basso continuo
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http://snd.sc/ZAFxCka)Baroque Era
Dance music
Ornamentation
Basso continuo/ Figured bass (cello and harpsichord)
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a)Romantic Era
Leitmotif
More chromaticism
Poetry
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