Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) was an Italian composer who was born in Naples‚ Italy‚ in 1685‚ the same year as Johan Sebastian Bach and George Handel‚ and spent much of his life in Spain and Portugal as music master to the princess Maria Barbara who later became Queen of Spain. The Scarlatti’s Sonatas Form and Tonal structure In the works of Scarlatti there are no sonatas that may be considered completely typical. Generally there is a single movement in binary form with both a varied and expressive
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is one you might see in a movie featuring bloodhounds and hunters on horses. The Frenchmen used it extensively in the 16th Century. In the mid-17th Century‚ composers such as Pietro Cavalli and Jean-Baptiste Lully used these in operas. Handel in Water Music and Bach in Mass in B Minor and Brandenburg Concerto No.1 also used these hunting horns in the 18th Century‚ which was what they were known as then. Then there were improvisations. The crooks were invented and added. Crooks are pieces of different-sized
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melodic lines. The growth of figured bass and counterpoint represents the development of harmony. However‚ by the late baroque period‚ polyphonic texture returned to favor. Famous Baroque composers: - Johann Sebastian Bach Popular work: Air on a G String - George Frideric Handel Popular work: The Messiah - Antonio Vivaldi Popular work: The Four Seasons It is difficult to define Jazz music‚ as there are many different styles and movements. A brief definition of Jazz would be: American
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TEENAGERS: CLASSICAL MUSIC YOUR CHILDREN SHOULD KNOW (AND WILL ENJOY!) Many parents‚ when faced with the teenage years and teenage musical tastes‚ buy their child a headset and hope that their child’s hearing will survive the next ten years. (The generation gap can often be measured in decibels!) And yet‚ while schools provide the counterbalance to popular reading matter with good literature and a talkshow view of contemporary society with courses on history and current events‚ it is left to parents
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over power the other‚ acting as partners (Sporre‚ 2010). There were many great composers of Classical Music such as Ludwig Van Beethoven‚ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart‚ Fredrick Chopin‚ and George Frideric Handel just to name a few. One composer whose style is different than the common Beethoven or Bach is
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around the 1600’s to the 1800’s. This is when music was just reaching its peak of success; composers achieved great accomplishments during this time in history. Three of the most famous composers are Antonio Vivaldi‚ George Frideric Handel‚ and Johann Sebastian Bach. This type of music opened up composers to create a different kind of sound with more artistic freedom. “...Baroque music...was filled with complex melodies and
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Baroque Dates: (1600-1750) 1. What does “musical style” mean? Different types of musical compositions developed throughout different eras 2. What was going historically during this era? What was life like? New ideas and art was being introduced everywhere. It was a time of personal expression and drama. There was controversy between Catholics and Protestants which caused long periods of religious war. It was also a time of scientific research and astronomical studies. 3. Was did
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Session 6 Activity: Discussion RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE There are two activities for Session 6: Activity 6.1 (parts a and b) and Activity 6.2. You will be working independently with the opportunity to respond to others for activity 6.1. Both the activities take place on the DISCUSSION BOARD. Activity 6.1 Art and Music: Comparing a work of art to a piece of music. General notes: Try to make comparisons that go beyond ’art that illustrates a piece of music well’ or ’music that fits what is happening
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[briarpatch922] Melanie Woody English 1010-C92 17 September 2013 Classical Music Would be Ordinary without the Oboe Handel‚ Bach‚ Mozart‚ Saint Saëns‚ Beethoven and many more composers wrote countless music for full‚ grand orchestras and their pieces of music have been played regularly and imitated to this day. In almost each work‚ they chose to exhibit one instrument in particular: the oboe. Why the oboe? What does it have that other instruments are lacking? If many world-renowned composers
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