Periods Of Music
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- Created on: 12-03-20 20:18
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- Periods Of Music
- Baroque (1600 - 1750)
- Main composers from this era include Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.
- Instrumental music becomes much more dominant than vocal music
- Lots of motifs and repetition
- Simple harmonies and a small range of chords (chords I + V)
- Use of terraced dynamics; not many crescendos or diminuendos
- Usually used basso continuo
- It has lots of ornaments
- Modulation
- Music became a lot more complex than before
- Polyphonic and dance like
- Lots of harpsichords
- Classical (1750 - 1820)
- Music begins to follow strict rules
- Forms like the sonata, concerto and the symphony became more popular and more defined
- Less ornaments
- More dynamics were used; changes weren't sudden like during the Baroque era.
- Main composers from this era include Mozart, Haydn, Schubert and Beethoven.
- Tunes were balanced and used four bar phrases
- Two bar questions, two bar answers
- Piano is invented and used a lot more than the harpsichord
- Orchestras get bigger
- Clarinet is invented
- Mainly homophonic
- Romantic (1820 - 1900)
- Music begins to break away from the rules and strictness of classical music
- Main composers from this era include Brahms, Schumann, Tchaikovsky and Wagner
- More performance directions are used
- Music is more expressive and more emotional
- Composers liked to use folk tunes and dance rhythms from their homelands
- A wide range of dynamics is used, with lots of sudden changes.
- Use of sforzandos and accents
- Based on or inspired by deep emotions, like happiness, love and grief
- Very technically difficult music
- Extra notes were often added to chords (7ths, 9ths, 11ths) to create dissonance.
- More tempo changes and a lot of rubato in order to convey emotions
- 20th Century (Since 1900)
- Music seemed to have no rules
- Main composers from this era include Bartok, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Ravel
- Lack of one dominant style
- Use of impressionist, minimalist, expressionist and serialist styles
- Baroque (1600 - 1750)
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