THE ART OF MUSIC

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THE ART OF MUSIC

• KERINNE HALL

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WHAT IS MUSIC?

• Music is the art of arranging
• or making sounds, usually those of musical
  instruments
• or voices.

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Timeline
Renaissance 1400-1600
Baroque 1600-1750
Classical 1750-1820
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RENAISSANCE

• Rebirth
• Return to interest in Classical (Greek/Roman)
  ideals
• Relaxing of strict attitudes

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REBIRTH TO MUSIC

• People were free to make the music they wanted
• The great masters of the Renaissance were
  respected in their own lifetimes
• Some of the old instruments were improved and new
  instruments were invented.

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Types of Renaissance Music

• Sacred
• Secular
• Instrumental

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RENAISSANCE INSTRUMENT
LUTE
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Cornett
RENAISSANCE INSTRUMENT
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RENAISSANCE COMPOSERS
Josquin Des Prez of France (1450 - 1521)
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• Michael Praetorius of Germany
• (1571-1621)

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• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina of Italy
  (1525-1594)

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BAROQUE

• The music of this period has a number of
  defining characteristics
• It is music played by one or more bass
  instruments and a piano
• Its composers could express their emotions in the
  music.

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BAROQUE

• The baroque era also dealt with the contrast of
  volume, texture, and pace of the music.
• They moved away from sacred music and started to
  have more secular forms

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INSTRUMENTS

• There were several varieties of keyboards used
  during this period clavichord, the organ, and
  the harpsichord.
• Then there were also the string, woodwind, and
  percussion.

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BAROQUE INSTRUMENTS
Harpsichord
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Timpani
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BAROQUE COMPOSERS

• Handel, Georg Friedrich
• (1685-1759)

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• Bach, Johann Sebastian
• (1685-1750)

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CLASSICAL MUSIC
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CLASSICAL

• The Classical period has been called the "Golden
  Age of Music" because it was at this time that
  the major forms of Classical music--the symphony,
  concerto, sonata, and string quartet--were fully
  developed

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CLASSICAL

• The styles of Classical music consisted of
  melody, harmony, rhythm, texture and folk
  elements.
• Had two major forms the sonata and the concerto

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CLASSICAL

• The sonata is the most important form of
  classical music. It consists of three parts the
  exposition, the development, and the
  recapitulation, which makes the music unfold like
  reading a story.

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CLASSICAL

• A concerto is typically a three-movement
  piece, with a slow inner movement and two fast
  outer movements, with each
• there are many forms that a composer can
  choose from dance forms, theme and variations,
  fugue, rondo

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CLASSICAL INSTRUMENTS
Cello
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Bassoons
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COMPOSERS

• Beethoven, Ludwig Van
• (1770 - 1827)

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• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• (1756 - 1791)

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