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Music 1030 styles
Musical era styles
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Opera, oratorio development | Baroque era |
| Cantata development | Baroque era |
| Ostinato form development | Baroque era |
| Fugue development | Baroque era |
| Most important unifying feature of all Baroque music is the characteristic accompanying part | Basso continuo |
| Concerto grosso | Baroque era |
| suite associated with this era | Baroque |
| Handel | Baroque composer |
| J.S. Bach | Baroque composer |
| Monteverdi | Baroque composer |
| Vivaldi | Baroque composer |
| recitative | homophonic style of text setting which emphasizes the natural contours of spoken language; common in Baroque era |
| arias | solo songs for voice and orchestra |
| overture | orchestral prelude to an opera |
| libretto | text of Baroque operas |
| age of concerto grosso, suite, fugue genre | Baroque era |
| Ritornello principle, which alternates between solo and all instruments | common in Baroque concerto movements |
| era of Rigaudon | Baroque |
| polyphonic composition based on one main theme | fugue |
| main theme of a fugue | subject |
| Sonata | main developments in music during Baroque era |
| music texture basically polyphonic | Baroque music |
| music texture basically homophonic | Classical era music |
| usually consists of 4 movements: fast, slow, dance-related, fast | Classical era music |
| Emergence of sonata form | Classical era |
| consists of 3 main sections: the exposition, the development, and recapitulation | sonata form |
| widely used in the classical era either as an independent piece or as one movement of a symphony | theme and variations |
| The Cricket | Josquin de prez |
| Little Organ Fugue | Bach |
| Marriage of Figaro | Mozart |
| Symphony no. 5 | Beethoven |
| Fantaisie Impromptu | Chopin |
| March to the Scaffold | Berlioz |
| Die Walkure | Wagner |
| Rite of Spring | Stravinsky |
| Hoe Down | Copland |
| Cotton Tail | Ellington |
| Great contribution of the classical period to orchestral music | the symphony |
| Haydn | Classical era composer |
| Mozart | Classical era composer |
| Beethoven | Classical era composer |
| used as the 3rd. movement of classical symphonies, string quartets | minuet |
| emphasis on self-expression and individuality of style | Romantic era music |
| Nationalism, exoticism, and program music domination | Romantic era |
| one of most distinctive forms in romantic music | art song |
| thematic transformation unify longer works of this period | Romantic era |
| Chopin, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Verdi, Puccini, Wagner | Romantic era composers |
| Associated with Debussy | impressionism |
| Artistic movement which stressed intense, subjective emotion | Expressionism |
| 12 tone system association | Schoenberg |