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Baroque & enlightenment Flashcards

1
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Fugue

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Several melodic lines played at the same time

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Opera

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Orchesta with solos and choirs

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Sonata

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first movement of a symphony

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Oratorio

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Large musical piece with orchestra, choir, and solos

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Orchestra

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Group of instruments: woodwind, brass, string, and percussion playing classical music

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Counterpoint

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playing melodies within eachother

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Concerto

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Piece for solo instrument - solo plays melody, orchestra plays accompaniment

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Requiem

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Mozart piece - performed for dead person(s)

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symphony

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Consists of 4 movements, large form of music

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First movement pace

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Fast forward

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second movement pace

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slower, develops themes

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third movement

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festive, light

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finale

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re-establish themes

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Bernini, David

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story of david, dramatic

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tenebrism

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treatment of light and dark

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Calling of st. matthew, caravaggio

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christ calling Matthew in a room includes tenebrism

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Judith slaying holofernes, gentileschi

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remake of caravaggioes, painted by artemisis gentileschi

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the night watch, rembrandt

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soldiers during the night, forshortening

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the garden of love, rubens

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angelic, perfection, gods and goddesses, celebration of his marriage to his wife

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maids of honor (las meninas), valazquez

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everyone looking at you, spanish quart painter

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21
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where is las meninas painting located?

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Prada

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22
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jonathan swift

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enlightenment great writers, remorseful thoughts on monotheistic governments

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johannes kepler

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german astronomer, writer, of music, mathematician, natural philosopher

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voltaire

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philosopher that believed everything is random and is a deis, french

25
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voltaire

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philosopher that believed everything is random and is a deist, french, wrote LISBON EARTHQUAKE

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john locke

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people are born with a blank slate, defended natural rights, social contract, revoultion against unfair governments

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rene descartes

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freewill is an illusion, past is a continuous line, everything effects life, actions have causes

28
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what is the mind/body split called?

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cartesian dualism - physical and mental

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jane austen

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English novelist, unremarkable people in unremarkable everyday life

30
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napoleon

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french military commander

31
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isaac newton

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3 laws of motion, mathematics, physics

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thomas hobbes belief

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everything can be determined within the motions and interactions of the human body

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Louis XVI

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remove tax, increase tolerance towards Non-catholics, abolish death penalty for deserters

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Anton Van

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development of cells

35
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Social Contract Theory

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All man should have obligation to do things that happened to them to others

36
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What did Descartes think freewill was?

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an illusion

37
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What is determinism?

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making choices based on the past

38
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Voltaire’s philosophical optimism

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Survival is random, it was god’s plan

39
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What was Handel’s nationality?

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German

40
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What was Vivaldi’s nationality?

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Italian

41
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What was bach’s nationality?

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German

42
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What was mozart’s nationality?

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austrian

43
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What was Beethoven’s nationality?

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German

44
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Who went deaf in his later years?

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Beethoven

45
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Handel’s style of music:

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High baroque

46
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Bach’s style of music:

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Counterpoint

47
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Beethoven’s style of music:

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transitional

48
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Mozart’s style of music:

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Classical

49
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Vivaldi’s style of music:

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Instrumental music, concertos

50
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Who had a sensitive ear/blinded eye?

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Handel

51
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Who worked at a girls’ orphanage for 35 years?

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Vivaldi

52
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Who was a choir master and organist?

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Bach

53
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Who was a genius and famous at a young age?

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Mozart

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