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Intro to music
Composers, with era and attributes
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Undergraduate 1
03/03/2009

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Monteverdi
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Early Baroque,Text painting, dionysian, Madrigal,
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Barbara Strozzi
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Early Baroque, Venice, continuo, cantatas.
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Doctrine of affections
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Renee descartes, six possible affections. used as template for music.
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De Capo Aria
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ABA format. Soloist ornaments on second A. Baroque, Dionysian
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Antonio Vivaldi
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Late Baroque, functionalist, concerto, programmatic music. (four seasons)
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George Frideric Handel
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Oratorio, Opera, Opera Seria. First true classical composer, but in baroque.
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Johan Sebastian Bach
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Late Baroque, functionalist. Chapelmaster in leipzig. Cantatas (based on chorales)
Oratorios. NO OPERA, counterpoint, perpetuum mobile.
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Classical era
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1750-1825- Apollonian, clean, beautiful melodies, little improvisation.
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Franz Josef Haydn
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Classical, patronage, won right to own work. Sense of humor. Taught Mozart, Beethoven
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Classical, 41 symphonies, Opera seria, Buffa(figaro) Singspeil, start of standartization of forms, genres
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Romantic Era
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1835-1900, focus on composer's emotion. Focus on individual like enlightenment, unlike enlightenment emphasis not on rational. began in literature.
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Beethoven
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Classical/Romantic, Diva, developing motives, Per aspera ad astra, Eroica symphony, nine symphonies,
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Rossini
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Romantic, Italian composer, Opera, Code Rossini, Rossini Crescendo, Double Aria, nice, good humor, anti-Beethoven
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Vincenzo Bellini and Gaetano Donizetti
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Under Code Rossini's shadow, began to increase realism in Italian opera
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Guisseppe verde
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Confronted code rossini, more realism, became nationalist icon after Nabucco, Mamet style dialogue, no black and white
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Franz Schubert
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Under Beethoven, used Rossini style to write symphonies, did same with other composers
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Robert, Clara Schuman
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Also dealt with how to get past beethoven
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Frederic Chopin
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Under Beethoven. Product of salon culture, rich french threw money at him, character peices, avoided symphonies. Exoticism,
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Hector Berlioz, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner
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New German school, progressives, Beethoven ruined symphony for them, they had to move to other genres.
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Berlioz
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Programmatic symphonies, elaborate story from just instruments.
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Liszt
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Symphonic poems, one movement, programmatic
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Richard Wagner
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Total Work, used for nazi propaganda, huge orchestra
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Schumanns, Mendelssohn, Johhanes Brahms
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Conservative school, against new germans.
Music is absolute, cannot refer to much outside itself, traditional forms still good.
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Johannes Brahms,
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Used traditional forms, was a genius, scholar, sampled, intricate, formal music, every genre but opera (Bach, Beethoven). Chamber music, piano music, symphonies
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Nationalism
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Emphasis on a shared culture, made by a minority. for independence, or recognition after achieving independence.
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Jean Sibelius
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Nationalist against russians. Finlandia
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Dvorak
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Czeck nationalist, smetana
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Edward Elgar
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Nationalist, for national pride, pomp and circumstance
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Tchaikovsky
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Russian nationalist, ballet, symphonies,
wrote his heart beat stopping, personal music
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Debussey
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1862-1918, neoclassicism, began 20th cent, used music from other cultures, studied older styles (neoclassical concept), impressionism.
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20th century
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Tonality not required, reactions to world events, expressionist music, serialism,
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Schoenberg
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20th cent, serialism, pantonality, expressionist
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Anton Webern
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Schoenberg disciple,more interested in serialism, charted rhythm, expressionist, Timbre
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Alan Berg
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Schoenberg disciple, pantonal, romantic, expressionist,
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Neoclassicism
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French response to serialism, expressionism.
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Maurice Ravel
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Neoclassical functionalist, no problem with imitation, arranged orchestras, beauty drowned his emotion in le tombeu de couperin
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Igor Stravinski
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Distanced himself from russian nationalism
Sold more than schoenberg, rite of spring=primitivism, settled on pertuschka's sophisticated, sarcastic social commentary. Taught at UCLA
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Age of ISMS
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Neoromantics, systematic serialism (milton babbitt), Chance music, Minimalism
(phillip glass), John Cage
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Nazis
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Gustav Mahler = Great conductor, jewish, destroyed by nazi historians.
Beethoven=nazis wanted to associate themselves with him
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Aaron Copland
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Fanfare for the common man, saved him from the blacklist.
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George Crumb
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Black angels against vietnam
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Dmitri Shostakovich
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Genius, broken by stalin. Lady Macbeth of mtensk. Public music = communist, private = shrieking
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