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Chapter 4 Musical Form and Musical Style

Chapter 4 Musical Form and Musical Style. Musical Style. Key Terms. Style Lifestyle Fugue Imitative polyphony Non-imitative polyphony. Musical Style. Style is the combination of qualities that makes something distinctive

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Chapter 4 Musical Form and Musical Style

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  1. Chapter 4Musical Form and Musical Style Musical Style

  2. Key Terms • Style • Lifestyle • Fugue • Imitative polyphony • Non-imitative polyphony

  3. Musical Style • Style is the combination of qualities that makes something distinctive • A tennis player’s style is distinctive because of the way she or he: • Reaches for the serve • Follows through on the swing • Chooses and places shots • Decides when to charge the net • Moves on the court • Gets “pumped” for the match

  4. Lifestyle • Your personal lifestyle is distinctive because of: • How you dress • How you talk • The food you eat • Your habits of thought and feeling • The relationships you choose • How you spend your time • The things you love to do • The things you hate to do

  5. Musical Style • A musical work is distinctive because of the way it uses elements such as: • Melody and form • Harmony and tonality • Rhythm and meter • Dynamics • Texture and tone color • One must look at the combination of elements; a single element is never enough to describe a style

  6. Musical Style & Lifestyle • One can speak of the lifestyle of a person, a family, or a generation • Similarly, one can speak of the musical style of a specific piece, a composer’s music, a city or country, or a historical period • There is often a connection between musical style and lifestyle in any historical period or place

  7. Musical Style • One can speak of the style of: • A composer • Beethoven or I Lotring • A school • Second Viennese School or Bebop • A historical culture • The Renaissance or the Romantic era • A “modern” culture or nation • The United States or Japan • An entire continent

  8. Historical Style Periods • Ancient music—before 476 C.E. • Middle Ages—476-c. 1400 C.E. • Renaissance—c. 1400-c. 1600 C.E. • Baroque era—c. 1600-c. 1750 C.E. • Classical era—c. 1750-c. 1820 C.E. • Romantic era—c. 1820-c. 1900 C.E. • Twentieth Century—1900-2000 C.E.

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