Music & Dance Flashcards
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Name the 6 time periods for classical music with the years included.
Medieval or Gothic (800 to 1400) Renaissance (1400 to 1600) Baroque (1600 to 1750) Classical (1750 to 1820) Romantic (1820 to 1910) Modern (1910 to present)
German composer of the Boroque period who lived 1685-1750.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer who lived 1770-1827; became deaf yet set the scene for the Romantic era. He wrote 8 symphonies, 1 opera “Fidelio”, many piano sonatas such as “Moonlight Sonata”, “Fur Elise” and “Minuet in G”.
Ludwig van Beethoven
French composer who lived 1803-1869; a true Romantic who influenced many composers of the Romantic period (e.g. Liszt and Wagner) with his fresh ideas, his approach to orchestration and his skills as a conductor. Works include “Symphonie Fantastique”, “Romeo and Juliet”, “Death of Cleopatra”, “Beatrice and Benedict”,
Hector Berlioz
Composer during the Romantic period who lived 1833-1897;
chose the stricter conventions of the classical period, and as a result received much criticism from his more adventurous peers and later composers. Yet he demonstrated time and again that it wasn’t necessary to abandon the old forms in forwarding the ideals of Romanticism. Most famous work was a lullaby.
Johann Brahms
Austrian composer who lived 1756-1791. Played piano by the age of 4, began composing at age 5, and learned violin by the age of 6. Finished two minuets by the age of 6. His father took him and his sister on a concert tour where he met George III of England, Louix XV of France, as well as a the young child Marie Antoinette. His work is said to be perfectly formed.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian Composer who lived 1732 - 1809; He came at a time when the influence of the church on musical development was diminishing and this influence was moving towards the nobility who employed composers to provide entertainment for their guests.
Although it was a characteristic of music at the time that it obeyed the rules of “form”, he did not see these rules as constraints and frequently bent these rules and added variations and ideas so that his music never stagnated.
Joseph Haydn
Composer born in Venice who lived 1678 – 1741; one of the most famous and celebrated of composers from the Baroque Period. Learned to play violin at an early age and the violin became his main instrument as a performer and composer.
He was ordained into the priesthood at age 25, and because he had asthma and couldn’t fulfill duties of a priest, he was assigned to teach music at an orphanage where he spent 30 years teaching and composing.
Antonio Vivaldi
Polish composer who lived 1810 - 1849 ; skilled pianist, and a large proportion of his works are for solo piano. His country of origin clearly influenced Chopin to the extent that he wrote many Mazurkas and Polonaises based on Polish dances.
He also developed a form called the Ballade which is a more extended work, fairly free in style like a stream of consciousness, but with an internal logic.
Frederic Chopin
French composer who lived 1862 - 1918; regarded as unconventional, developing his own style of music which others labelled “impressionism” in parallel with the artistic movement. Although he disliked the term, it aptly describes the impact on the listener where musical colours and textures assume greater importance as building blocks than the thematic material.
Claude Debussy
Norwegian composer who lived 1843 - 1907; associated with Norway and Norwegian Folk Music
Edward Grieg
(1841-1904) Czech composer who integrated Bohemian folk styles with classical traditions
Antonin Dvorak
German composer who lived 1685-1759; known for his oratorio “Messiah”.
George Frederic Handel
a virtuoso pianist, composer and Romantic artist who lived 1811 - 1886; a child prodigy; remembered today mainly for his important contributions to piano technique and repertoire; inspired by Paganini at an early age.
Through his expanding of tonality to the breaking point, Liszt not only wrote powerfully expressive music, but also foreshadowed the harmonic developments of the 20th century
Franz Liszt
German composer of the Romantic Period who lived 1809 - 1847; child prodigy;
Felix Mendelssohn
German composer who lived 1653 - 1706; known for his “Canon in D” which is played at weddings
Johan Pachelbel
Late Romantic Russian composer who lived 1873-1943; famous for “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” which was played in the films “Somewhere in Time” and “Groundhog Day”.
Sergei Rachmaninov
Austrian composer who lived 1797-1828; prolific composer who sometimes even composed several songs per day; quiet, shy; died at a young age;
Franz Schubert
Russian composer who lived 1840 - 1893; reputation to be a solitary figure who often worked in isolation; music characterized by beautiful melodies, inventive orchestration, and a “heart on sleeve” emotional warmth and engagement; Famous for “The Nutcracker”
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Composer who lived 1864 - 1949; composed Don Juan and “Death and Transfiguration; was Chief of Music Affairs for the Nazi’s from 1933-1935; most familiar work was used as the opening theme in 2001: A Space Odyssey and for many images of the moon landing.
Richard Strauss
1868-1917) African American composer and pianist most famous for his Ragtime piano works
Scott Joplin
What are the four different families of instruments in an orchestra?
Woodwinds
Brass
Percussion
Strings
consists of five horizontal lines, evenly spaced, on which the notes are placed according to their pitch.
Staff
indicates which pitches are assigned to the lines and spaces on a staff
Clef
