Classical Era Flashcards

(36 cards)

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Classical Period

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Mid 18th-End 18th /1750-1800

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Classical Charact

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More symmetrical, simpler, clearer, more logic, became a model

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3
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Patronage System

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Work for cities, church, rich people

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4
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Freelancer

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Freedom in music composition

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5
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Sonata Form

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A single and favorite form to write movements

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6
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Sonata Form parts

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Exposition, Development, & Recapitulation

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7
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4 Movement Plan is used in…

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Symphony and String Quartet

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4 Movement Plan Charact

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Fast-Slow-Medium-Fast
Tonic-Not Tonic-Tonic-Tonic
First and last movement in Sonata Form

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9
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3 Movement Plan is used in

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Concerto and Sonata

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3 Movement Plan Charact

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Fast-Slow-Fast
Tonic-Not Tonic-Tonic
First and last movement in Sonata Form

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Minuet(A) & Trio(B) Definition

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Section that goes back to the first theme

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12
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Minuet(A) way to write it

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||:a:||:b:||

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13
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Trio(B) way to write it

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||:c:||:d:||

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14
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Symphony

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Genre performing group

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15
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Symphony Charact

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Has a conductor, Orchestra with Strings, inst, few wind inst, 20+ minutes

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16
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Symphony uses the plan…

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4 movement plan

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String Quartet

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Genre, chamber music

18
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String Quartet uses the plan..

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4 movement plan

19
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String Quartet Charact

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4 people playing strings instr

20
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String Quartet Instruments

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2 violins
1 viola
1 cello

21
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Concerto

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Orchestra vs. Soloist

22
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Concerto uses the plan..

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3 Movement Plan, no dance movement

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Sonata

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Genre, Chamber music

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Sonata uses the plan…

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3 Movement Plan

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Sonata Charact
Solo piano or piano accomp like keyboard
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Don Giovanni
It is an opera in two acts with music by Mozart. It is based on legends of Don Juan
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Influential composer of the Classical Era. At Vienna, he composed his famous symphonies, concertos, and operas.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Classical/Romantic German composer, studied in Vienna. Excellent pianist who give piano lessons. He shared chamber concertos in salons, 
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Beethoven's professors
Haydn, Mozart, and Salieri
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Beethoven suffered...
Deafness
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Heiligenstadt Testament
When Beethoven started to getting deafness, he wrote a sad letter about it to his brothers
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Symphony no. 3 "Eroica"
Symphony composed by Beethoven, dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte
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Symphony no. 5
Beethoven’s most famous composition
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Opus
Published work
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Cyclical
Multi-movement work
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Scherzo
Joking, quick and jolly dance