Download Music Theory: Historical Periods, Genres, and Compositional Techniques - Prof. Daniel S. F and more Study notes Music in PDF only on Docsity! MUS 1220 Review Big C – Historical period Little c – Overarching genre Comic Opera – Italian comic operas. Wolfgang Mozart was child prodigy. Wrote “The marriage of Figaro” Joseph Hayden was a freelance musician. Wrote “The Joke” Numbers Opera – Old form (17th century), Song and Drama are separated. Mozart. Music Drama – More integrated than numbers opera. Close relationship between music and stage. Orchestra plays continually. Strives for more dramatic realism. Verdi & Wagner. Oratorio – Like opera but not fully staged. Written as concert pieces. Similar to numbers opera with recitatives and arias. Handles “Messiah” & Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” Recitative – Singing ordinary speech Aria – Long song accompanying solo voice. Opera. Repetition forms – Strophic. Modified Strophic. Theme and Variation. Return Based Forms – Ternary. Rondo. Sonata. Symphonic (Sonata) form – Known as the first movement form. Intro->Exposition->Development-> Recapitalization->Coda. 12 Tone Composers - all 12 notes of the chromatic scale are sounded as often as one another in a piece of music while preventing the emphasis of any. Arnold Schoenberg. Webam. Berg Texture – How many different things going on. Monophonic – One note at a time Polyphonic – More than one melody at a time. Homophonic- Melody and harmony move together. Melody & Accompaniment – Melody stands out, Accompaniment moves independently . Duple Meter – 2 or 4 BPM. Upbeat, fills the cracks. Triple Meter – 3 BPM Dance genre, nobility. Compound Meter – Each beat can be broken into 3 notes. Conjunct Melody – Notes played in scale, stepwise motion. Disjunct Melody – Intervals between notes are more than one second long. Major - A scale is a list of all the notes in a key. Major scales all follow the same interval pattern. Minor - The interval pattern for minor scales is different from that of major scales. Every minor key shares a key signature with its relative major. There are three common types of minor scales: natural minor, melodic minor, and harmonic minor. Jazz also commonly uses a "dorian minor". Consonance - Notes that sound good together when played at the same time. Dissonance - Sound harsh or unpleasant when played at the same time. Staccato – Short detached notes. Legato – Long and connected notes. Motive – Short melodic fragments. Popular in classical and Romantic periods.Mozart Open Phrasing – Sounds unfinished Closed Phrasing – Sounds final Three main vocal Registers – Chest voice, head voice, middle voice. Exposition – 1st theme (Tonic Key),Transition, 2nd them (Dominant Key),Closing section. Development - Free expansion of material from exposition, modulation to a variety of keys. Retransition, leading back to…. Recapitalization - 1st theme (tonic key),Transition (rewritten),2nd theme (tonic key),Closing section Functional Harmony - chords evolving around the tonic pillars. Hugo Riemann. Basso Continuo – Form of musical accompaniment. Lieder – BLAH BLAH BLAH BULLSHIT FILL IN Vocal Timbre’s – From highest to lowest. Soprano->Alto->Tenor->Bass Expression Period – Baroque and Romantic music. Beauty Period – Classical and Modern music. Classical Composers – Hayden, Mozart, Beethoven Baroque Composers – Bach, Vivaldi Romantic Composer – Chopin, Berlioz, Stravinsky, Dvorak Semantic – The meaning or sense of a text. Poetry and music are expressive arts. Use of text painting.
