Music GCSE Classical period
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- Created on: 20-05-18 18:44
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- Classical Period (1750-1815)
- Tonality
- Tonal
- Modulations to related keys
- If home key major, 1st modulation likely dominant
- If home key minor, first modulation likely to reltive major
- Composers
- HMB
- Hayden
- Mozart
- Beethoven
- HMB
- Texture
- Melody and accompaniment
- Primary harmony
- I
- IV
- V
- Frequent perfect cadences
- Phrasing at 2,4,8 bar units
- Simple, clear
- Sometimes thin
- Patronage
- After French revolution, many aristocrats killed so musicians survived on own artistic merit
- When wealthy aristocrat/ institution/ church would finance composer
- Dedicate pieces to patron
- Increases prestige
- Dedicate pieces to patron
- Enlightenment
- C. 1750-1800s
- First part of classical period
- Main themes
- Simplicity
- Clarity
- Logic
- Melody
- Sometimes triadic
- Scalic
- Arpeggiated
- V. sequential
- Quite a lot of ornamentation
- Largely diatonic
- Notes within key
- Instrumentation
- New instruments
- Piano
- Clarinet
- New instruments
- Rhythm
- Simple
- Dynamics
- Terraced
- Abrupt, sudden changes
- Terraced
- Tempo
- Not many changes
- Pathetique unusual
- Not many changes
- Genres
- String quartets
- Piano sonatas
- Symphonies
- Harmony
- Functional
- Can identify easily
- Functional
- Tonality
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