Baroque (ca. 1600-1750)

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European Music

1. Baroque (ca. 1600-1750)
2. Classical (ca. 1750-1820)
3. Romantic (ca. 1820-1900)

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Baroque (ca. 1600-1750)

• Bach
• historical context
• European monarchs vie in displaying pride, pomp,
  pageantry
• monarchs employ court composers
• genres
• opera introduced
• concerto a staple
• dances formalized into instrumental suites
• characteristics
• harpsichord
• heavy ornamentation

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Classical (ca. 1750-1820)

• Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven (B. on cusp w/
  Romanticism)
• historical context
• new aristocracies replacing monarchs/church as
  arts patrons ? demanded impersonal, but tuneful
  elegant music
• Vienna musical center (Viennese style)
• genres
• dances
• symphonies
• sonatas
• string quartets
• characteristics
• clean, uncluttered (reaction against Baroques
  heavy ornamentation)

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Romantic (ca. 1820-1900)

• Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Berlioz, Liszt,
  Verdi, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky
• genres
• opera
• symphonies
• ballets
• concertos
• sources of inspiration
• German folk stories, contemporary Italian
  literature
• indigenous history legends
• characteristics
• emotional
• nationalism