Periods Of Music
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- Created on: 22-09-15 11:40
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- Periods Of Music
- Medieval
- Mainly dominated by church music
- Gregorian Chant or Plain Chant
- Monophonic (Only one note sung at a time)
- Renaissance 1400-1600
- Still dominated by the church
- More sophisticated melodies, added harmonies
- Polyphony
- Palestrina, Monteverdi and William Byrd
- Baroque 1600-1750
- Music becomes much more complex
- Modulation
- Structures: binary, ternary, rondo
- Often contrapuntal
- Instrumental music becomes much more dominant than vocal music
- Bach, Handel and Vivaldi
- No crescendos or diminuendos, only terraced or stepped dynamics
- Simple harmonies, small chord range, mainly I and V
- Usually had a basso continuo
- No crescendos or diminuendos, only terraced or stepped dynamics
- Composers stop writing Modal
- Lots of motifs/repetition
- Lots of Ornaments
- Music becomes much more complex
- Classical 1750-1820
- Music begins to follow strict rules
- Forms such as the sonata, concerto and symphony become more defined
- Fewer ornaments
- Piano becomes popular,more so than the harpsichord, clarinet is invented, orchestras get bigger
- Subtle dynamics, changes were gradual not sudden
- Fewer ornaments
- Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Beethoven
- Tunes were very balanced and usually have four bar phrases (two bar question, 2 bar answer
- Romantic 1820-1900
- Music begins to break away from classical strictness
- A lot of music is based on poems and paintings or inspired by emotions such as happiness and grief, supernatural ideas also influence many composers
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- A wide range of dynamics are used with lots of sudden changes, sforzandos and accents are also commonly used
- More tempo changes and use of rubato
- Extra notes added to chords such as 7ths, 9ths, 11ths and 13ths. These create dissonance to show emotions such as pain and misery
- Composers often used folk tunes and dance rhythms from their homelands
- Very technically difficult music
- A lot of music is based on poems and paintings or inspired by emotions such as happiness and grief, supernatural ideas also influence many composers
- Music is more expressive and emotional
- More performance directions are used
- Brahms, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Wagner
- Music begins to break away from classical strictness
- 20th Century
- Music no longer had any rules
- Bartok, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Ravel
- Medieval
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