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    Music Appreciation

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    Types of Listeners Casual Listeners • Most common • Likes having music playing‚ filling the environment with sounds • Views music primarily as a mood enhancer or as pleasant part of the environment • Johann Sebastian Bach - Air from Suite No.3 in D major o Slow and relaxing pace – often used for meditation Referential Listeners • Relate music almost exclusively to outside experiences • These external references are so strong that the music is not really heard anymore; instead‚ the

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    Baroque Music

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    stylized into a recipe‚ including improbable plots‚ small motivations for the characters‚ and magical transformations‚ which were signs of opera’s baroque nature. Oprheus united drama‚ dance‚ elaborate stage mechanisms‚ and scenery with music. Johann Sebastian Bach was one artist whose greatest legacy was religious music. His works are distinguished by their inventiveness and complete mastery of major and minor tonality. George Frideric Handel was renowned for his Italian-style operas. He had a brilliant

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    Programme Notes Atcl

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    Square Programme J.S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in D minor BWV 851 [duration] J. Haydn Sonata in E flat major Hob. XVI:49 I: Allegro II: Adagio e cantabile III: Finale: Tempo di Minuet [duration] F. Schubert Impromptu in G flat major Op. 90 No. 3 [duration] F. Poulenc Trois Novelettes No.1 and No.2 I: C major II: B flat minor [duration] [total duration] Prelude and Fugue in D minor BWV 851 (from the Well -tempered Clavier Part I) Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) J.S. Bach was a German composer

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    Baroque

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    domes‚ and large masses as seen in the Royal Palace at Versailles‚ Trevi Fountain in Rome‚ Salzburg Cathedral and Mirabell Palace in Salzburg. In music‚ the Baroque style makes up a large part of classical music. Important composers include Johann Sebastian Bach‚ George Handel‚ and Antonio Vivaldi. This style’s popularity was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church‚ which had decided at the Council Of Trent that the arts should portray religious themes and direct emotional involvement in response

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    The Baroque Period

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    a negative description of the elaborate and heavily ornamented music of this period. Baroque music forms a major portion of the classical music canon‚ being widely studied‚ performed‚ and listened to. Composers of the baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach‚ George Frideric Handel‚ Antonio Vivaldi and Georg Philipp Telemann. The development of functional tonality happened during the baroque period. Functional tonality is the relationship between chords (cadences - perfect‚ imperfect‚ interrupted)

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    which the great Arcangelo Corelli lived will be discussed in greater detail as the paper progresses. To begin‚ the baroque period‚ also known as the “age of absolutism‚” is classified by the years 1600‚ in which opera began‚ to the death of Johann Sebastian Bach in 1750 (Kamien 99). Opera was birthed in Italy within the baroque period and provided the people a show of “magnificent extravagance” with more emphasis on the words than the music (Kamien 118-19). Furthermore‚ the baroque styled opera marked

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    Musical Parameters

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    Monophonic Hildegard of Bingen‚ Columbia aspexit (L 1/8) Homophonic Wolfgang A. Mozart‚ Piano Concerto No. 21‚ in C‚mvt. ii (MEB 1/4) Ludwig van Beethoven‚ The Ruins of Athens‚ “Turkish March” (MEB 1/9) Polyphonic‚ imitative Johann Sebastian Bach‚ The Art of Fugue‚ Contrapuntcus 1 Polyphonic‚ nonimitative Sergey Prokofiev‚ Montagues and Capulets‚ Dance of the Knights- Mid-section combination of textural types: Georges Bizet‚ L’Arlésienne Suite‚ “Farandole” LISTENING EXERCISE

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    the music of Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a talented composer and pianist of the classical era. Mozart’s music had a bold expression with complexity and depth. He composed many sonatas‚ symphonies‚ masses‚ concertos and operas. Johann Sebastian Bach of German descend‚ was a multitalented composer and musician. He was a well-known organist‚ pianist‚ violinist‚ harpsichordist‚ of the Baroque era. Mozart’s music is different than that of Bach’s in the sense that the orchestras differ in size

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    Augustan Age

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    •DEFINITION •GENERAL FEATURES •LITERARY STYLE •THE RISE of the NOVEL •MAIN AUTHORS What is an Augustan Age? A period which is considered the most important and productive for the high forms of literary expression it produces. Every national Literature has its “Augustan Age”: Corneille‚ Racine‚ Molière in France; in the Roman Empire: Virgil‚ Ovid‚ Horace. The name Augustan derives from Emperor Augustus. The AUGUSTAN AGE 1688 – James II is removed from the throne:Glorious Revolution 1776 – America

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    Humanities Baroque

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    Manifestation of the Baroque Period Roughly around the 1600s to 1750s‚ the Baroque period came to life bringing heightened nature‚ and more personal and emotional expression to art. It originated in Italy and spread out like a plaque throughout Europe‚ the Americas‚ and Spain. Everything from art to literature and even music was more theatrical and was given more emotions. Catholicism was generally being reflected off of the Baroque arts. Dramatic religious paintings were being made Literature

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