Renaissance Music Timeline
... 1450-‐1550 – Composers continue to expand on polyphony with the “cantus firmus”. The cantus firmus was a chant melody upon which supporting harmonies were added. Rules began to evolve as to which ...
... 1450-‐1550 – Composers continue to expand on polyphony with the “cantus firmus”. The cantus firmus was a chant melody upon which supporting harmonies were added. Rules began to evolve as to which ...
The Baroque Period
... Opera combines music, acting, scenery, costumes, and props Actors and actresses sing the script, or libretto Range from serious to comical The very first opera was Orfeo by ...
... Opera combines music, acting, scenery, costumes, and props Actors and actresses sing the script, or libretto Range from serious to comical The very first opera was Orfeo by ...
Italian Keyboard Composers
... The Republic of Venice in northern Italy was an important commercial center and tourist destination in the late Renaissance. It was famous for its canals, opera houses, and carnivals. The renowned music at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice attracted many musicians. They came to study with the cathedral’ ...
... The Republic of Venice in northern Italy was an important commercial center and tourist destination in the late Renaissance. It was famous for its canals, opera houses, and carnivals. The renowned music at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice attracted many musicians. They came to study with the cathedral’ ...
Introduction To Arranging
... meter, and embellishment of the harmonies. In particular, reharmonisation is used to affect the style and add different colours to the music either by adjusting the harmony to alter the character of the music, or to create more tonal texture by including appropriate harmonies for passing tones. The ...
... meter, and embellishment of the harmonies. In particular, reharmonisation is used to affect the style and add different colours to the music either by adjusting the harmony to alter the character of the music, or to create more tonal texture by including appropriate harmonies for passing tones. The ...
THERENAffiSANCEE 1400-1600 `---------------------------
... Byrd wrote a great deal of sacred music including settings of the Mass for 3, 4 or 5 voices. He also wrote a number of secular works for voice and used a number of different instruments as accompaniments. He was the organist and member of the private religious establishment, the Chapel Royal during ...
... Byrd wrote a great deal of sacred music including settings of the Mass for 3, 4 or 5 voices. He also wrote a number of secular works for voice and used a number of different instruments as accompaniments. He was the organist and member of the private religious establishment, the Chapel Royal during ...
Crash Course In Music History
... Longest period in music history ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Pope Gregory Gregorian Chant -> Single Line, Monophonic ...
... Longest period in music history ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Pope Gregory Gregorian Chant -> Single Line, Monophonic ...
Music in the Classical Period
... - All themes are in the tonic. - A coda may follow the recapitulation. Orchestra music: The Mannheim School - Mannheim school, in music, a group of 18th-century composers who assembled themselves in the city of Mannheim. - They distinguished themselves particularly in their instrumental music, which ...
... - All themes are in the tonic. - A coda may follow the recapitulation. Orchestra music: The Mannheim School - Mannheim school, in music, a group of 18th-century composers who assembled themselves in the city of Mannheim. - They distinguished themselves particularly in their instrumental music, which ...
Italian Classical Music
... printed polyphonic music, and in 1516, Andrea Antico published the Frottole intablate da sonari organi, the earliest printed Italian music for keyboard. ...
... printed polyphonic music, and in 1516, Andrea Antico published the Frottole intablate da sonari organi, the earliest printed Italian music for keyboard. ...
Top 10 Most Famous Classical Music Composers
... Top 10 Most Famous Classical Music Composers Classical music may not enjoy as much popularity as it used to in its golden age from 17th to the early 20th century. But it continues to impress and inspire, especially the works by the greatest composers of all times. Some of them may have lived hundred ...
... Top 10 Most Famous Classical Music Composers Classical music may not enjoy as much popularity as it used to in its golden age from 17th to the early 20th century. But it continues to impress and inspire, especially the works by the greatest composers of all times. Some of them may have lived hundred ...
Fourth Grade LOS
... c. A (tuba) is the largest, lowest-pitched instrument in the brass family, played by the buzzing of lips into the mouthpiece while pressing keys with the fingers. d. An (oboe) is a high-pitched, double-reed woodwind instrument that is played by blowing into the reed while covering fingerholes along ...
... c. A (tuba) is the largest, lowest-pitched instrument in the brass family, played by the buzzing of lips into the mouthpiece while pressing keys with the fingers. d. An (oboe) is a high-pitched, double-reed woodwind instrument that is played by blowing into the reed while covering fingerholes along ...
Music
... Instrumental music was specifically written for instruments only Much of the instrumental music of the time was written in a polyphonic form Multiple instruments would be played in a song (one plays, then the other follows throughout the songs, then more come in as the song progresses) Dance music w ...
... Instrumental music was specifically written for instruments only Much of the instrumental music of the time was written in a polyphonic form Multiple instruments would be played in a song (one plays, then the other follows throughout the songs, then more come in as the song progresses) Dance music w ...
Chapter 8 -- Some Representative Medieval Composers and
... Machaut composed a large amount of songs and contributed to the development of the Medieval motet and other song forms. Probably his most famous composition is his Messa Notre Dame, the first known polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary by a single person. Machaut, who was an ordained priest, compo ...
... Machaut composed a large amount of songs and contributed to the development of the Medieval motet and other song forms. Probably his most famous composition is his Messa Notre Dame, the first known polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary by a single person. Machaut, who was an ordained priest, compo ...
CRI 114 HENRY COWELL: “Persian Set” Dedicated to His
... “The musical cultures of Asia have remained monodic in theory, but they are often polyphonic in actual performing practice. Attempts to combine the old classic melodic styles of the East with eighteenth and nineteenth century European harmony do not seem to me to be successful. But where a need is f ...
... “The musical cultures of Asia have remained monodic in theory, but they are often polyphonic in actual performing practice. Attempts to combine the old classic melodic styles of the East with eighteenth and nineteenth century European harmony do not seem to me to be successful. But where a need is f ...
CHAPTER 1 Music in Ancient Greece
... Classical forms • Rounded binary: ABA', where A ends in a new key (usually the dominant or relative major), B begins in the new key and gradually gives way to an altered reprise, A'. In the Classical period scherzos and minuets are almost always in this form. • Ternary: ABA, where A begins and ends ...
... Classical forms • Rounded binary: ABA', where A ends in a new key (usually the dominant or relative major), B begins in the new key and gradually gives way to an altered reprise, A'. In the Classical period scherzos and minuets are almost always in this form. • Ternary: ABA, where A begins and ends ...
Grade 7 Music Standards and Expectations
... 6. Responds to the cues of the conductor when singing as part of a group 7. Sings music written in two and three parts 2. Performs on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music* 1. Performs rhythm patterns from notation 2. Creates movement to accompany music or poems 3. Perform ...
... 6. Responds to the cues of the conductor when singing as part of a group 7. Sings music written in two and three parts 2. Performs on instruments, alone and with others, a varied repertoire of music* 1. Performs rhythm patterns from notation 2. Creates movement to accompany music or poems 3. Perform ...
Romantic_Music
... genius when it came to music. At age nine he gave his first piano concert, composed productively from the age of ten, and was ready to conduct the Sunday morning musicales that were the joy of his youth, by age thirteen. At age seventeen, he composed one of his well known works, The Midsummer Night' ...
... genius when it came to music. At age nine he gave his first piano concert, composed productively from the age of ten, and was ready to conduct the Sunday morning musicales that were the joy of his youth, by age thirteen. At age seventeen, he composed one of his well known works, The Midsummer Night' ...
RoundstoRoundelaysASurveyofPeriodMusic
... are always strophic, usually with a single musical phrase repeated for each stanza, and can but do not always include a refrain. 2. Frottola is a secular Italian form from the late 15th/early 16th century, being a homophonic song with simple diatonic harmonies and the melody in the upper voice. It w ...
... are always strophic, usually with a single musical phrase repeated for each stanza, and can but do not always include a refrain. 2. Frottola is a secular Italian form from the late 15th/early 16th century, being a homophonic song with simple diatonic harmonies and the melody in the upper voice. It w ...
History of Music
... Improvisations were used and often written down for musicians Polyphonic texture was standard along with the harmony of the basso continuo. Musical forms became clearer due to the patronage system. Formulas were used for composing due to the quick demand associated with the patronage system. To the ...
... Improvisations were used and often written down for musicians Polyphonic texture was standard along with the harmony of the basso continuo. Musical forms became clearer due to the patronage system. Formulas were used for composing due to the quick demand associated with the patronage system. To the ...
Baroque Music - Blackbird Library
... the first important composer of Passions. Schütz studied in Italy, and he was strongly influenced by the Italian composers, especially Monteverdi. ...
... the first important composer of Passions. Schütz studied in Italy, and he was strongly influenced by the Italian composers, especially Monteverdi. ...
BMC 18 The Baroque Concerto
... orchestra (ripieno), the two taking the theme and its development in alternation. This idea is the continuation of an older Italian church tradition, that of ‘antiphonal’ singing of verse and response ‘echoing’ one another. From the ‘concerto grosso’ with its alternating groups of ripieni and concer ...
... orchestra (ripieno), the two taking the theme and its development in alternation. This idea is the continuation of an older Italian church tradition, that of ‘antiphonal’ singing of verse and response ‘echoing’ one another. From the ‘concerto grosso’ with its alternating groups of ripieni and concer ...
Medieval Terms
... Ballade: One of the late-Medieval French strophic "formes fixes" (fixed forms) that is usually in a form that could be diagrammed as AaB. Ballata: An Italian poetic song-form made famous by Landini and others during the Trecento, with a form that could be diagrammed ABbaA. Cantiga: A Portuguse narra ...
... Ballade: One of the late-Medieval French strophic "formes fixes" (fixed forms) that is usually in a form that could be diagrammed as AaB. Ballata: An Italian poetic song-form made famous by Landini and others during the Trecento, with a form that could be diagrammed ABbaA. Cantiga: A Portuguse narra ...
The Conservative Classical Music Culture
... might argue. If we want nothing more than to affirm the verities of the past, then why not learn to speak Latin and Greek, use it conversationally, and “live” there, in that time-honored world? This would be fundamentalism, and pretty strange behavior, to boot. The dominance of old music over new is ...
... might argue. If we want nothing more than to affirm the verities of the past, then why not learn to speak Latin and Greek, use it conversationally, and “live” there, in that time-honored world? This would be fundamentalism, and pretty strange behavior, to boot. The dominance of old music over new is ...
MUSIC IN THE BAROQUE PERIOD (1600
... Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and Claudio Monteverdi. The music written by these composers was written largely on commission, meaning that the composers were asked to write a certain piece for a specific occasion. The courts of the aristocracy, churches, opera houses, and municipalities commissio ...
... Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and Claudio Monteverdi. The music written by these composers was written largely on commission, meaning that the composers were asked to write a certain piece for a specific occasion. The courts of the aristocracy, churches, opera houses, and municipalities commissio ...