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Eras of Music Overview

Eras of Music Overview. Renaissance – Romantic (1400-1910). The Renaissance Period (1400-1600) . Musical characteristics Vocal music Text-based/ Word painting Polyphonic Imitation Choral music=no accompaniment Step-wise, rarely skips or leaps. NaME THAT COMPOSER!.

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Eras of Music Overview

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  1. Eras of Music Overview Renaissance – Romantic (1400-1910)

  2. The Renaissance Period (1400-1600) Musical characteristics • Vocal music • Text-based/ Word painting • Polyphonic • Imitation • Choral music=no accompaniment • Step-wise, rarely skips or leaps

  3. NaME THAT COMPOSER! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Josquin.jpg JOSQUIN DES PREZ

  4. Name That Composer! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Pierluigi_da_Palestrina.png GIOVANNI PIERLUIGI DA PALESTRINA

  5. Name That Composer! TOMÁS LUIS DE VICTORIA

  6. Name That Composer! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orland_di_Lassus.jpg ORLANDO DI LASSUS

  7. The Baroque Period (1600-1760) Musical characteristics • Stays in major or minor • Dance music • Forward motion • Uses more skips and leaps • Ornamentation • Soprano and bass lines important • Basso continuo/ Figured Bass • Cello and harpsichord

  8. Name That Composer! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Purcell_by_John_Closterman.jpg HENRY PURCELL

  9. Name That Composer! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Frideric_Handel_by_Balthasar_Denner.jpg GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

  10. Name That Composer! http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johann_Sebastian_Bach.jpg JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

  11. Classical Era (1730-1820) • Musical characteristics • Contrast of mood • More movement between major and minor keys • Rhythm • Texture • Melody • Dynamics and the piano • The end of basso continuo

  12. Musical example • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO-ecxHEPqI • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_music

  13. NAME THAT COMPOSER! • http://www.biography.com/people/wolfgang-mozart-9417115 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  14. NAME THAT COMPOSER! • http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/ludwig%20van%20beethoven Ludwig Van Beethoven

  15. Romantic Era (1815-1910) • Musical characteristics • Love of nature • Emotion vs. rationality • Artist as the creator • Nationalism, Exoticism, and the Supernatural • Leitmotif • Poetry • More chromaticism http://www.buzzle.com/articles/romanticism-characteristics-of-romanticism.html

  16. Name That Composer! • http://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Wagner/+images/40428355 http://snd.sc/11x7wQE Richard Wagner

  17. Name that era! • Example #1: http://snd.sc/ZAEYZd • Renaissance Era Polyphonic Imitation Step-wise, rarely skips or leaps All audio music used on this slide can be found at www.search.creativecommons.org

  18. Name that era! • Example #2: http://snd.sc/ZGq93g • Classical Era Contrast of mood Dynamics and the piano The end of basso continuo

  19. Name that era! • Example #3: http://snd.sc/ZAFxCk • Baroque Era Dance music Ornamentation Basso continuo/ Figured bass (cello and harpsichord)

  20. Name that era! • Example #4: http://snd.sc/ZAGACi • Romantic Era Leitmotif Poetry More chromaticism

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