Music A02
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- Created on: 14-03-16 20:08
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- Music AO2
- Romantic Music
- Romantic Period 1820-1900
- Popular Song was Lieder a solo performance set to German poetry
- The Composers of Lieder write songs in sets which is when words are taken from poems
- Composers include Schubert, Schumann and Brahms
- Key Features
- A solo voice and piano often based on emotional themes like love, sadness, loss or anger.
- A melody and accompaniment texture
- A Strophic Structure in which each verse is set to the same music
- A Through composed structure in which each verse is set to different music
- Music reflects the mood and emotions in the song
- Streams of fast notes to depict a river
- Steady crotchets to mimic walking
- Unaccompanied vocals to show loneliness
- Trills to mimic bird song
- Pop Ballads
- song based on emotional themes with a story telling element
- They can be written in different styles like Rock and R&B
- Singers include Elton John, Mariah Carey, U2 and Christina Aguilera
- Key Features
- Expressive vocal performance with ornamentation and melismas rubato and large range of long held notes
- Sentimental and romantic lyrics
- Slow tempo in 4/4
- Slow harmonic rhythm
- Verse Chorus form
- Lush instrumental accompaniment with sotf timbres and chords
- Instruments
- Guitar
- Strings
- Piano
- Saxophone
- Drums accent beat 2 and 4
- Reverb is added to create a warmer sound
- Builds in intensity
- Classical concerto
- Solo instrument or sometimes 2 or more soloists and an orchestra.
- Usually in 3 movements of Fast - Slow - Fast
- 1750 - 1820
- Composed for orchestral instruments eg. Violins, clarinet and French Horn
- Virtuosic players would play in grand halls
- Key Features
- Alternations between solo sections (with full orchestra)
- A Cadenza Unaccompanied solo usually at the end of the 1st passage.
- Virtuosic playing rapid scales & arpeggios and extreme registers
- large leaps and ornamentation especially in the cadenza
- Themes being exchanged between soloist and orchestra
- General features of music from the classical period include
- Balanced clear cut phrases (question and answer)
- Homophonic or melody and accompaniment textures
- Gradual changes in dynamics
- Romantic Music
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