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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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TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA

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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

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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