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civ arts
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Undergraduate 2
01/13/2011

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point of imitation
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different voices come in at different times with the same music/sound. blending the notes, very cautious about disonance
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overlapping cadences
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when one voice stops, another keeps going so the song is flowing along all the time
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paired imitation
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pairs voices, a type of polyphony (main goal is beauty)
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baroque background
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95 theses were posted and the church does some re-evaluation of their virtues and decides not to change and makes church the place to be, decoration and art makes people excited about their faith.
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characteristics of baroque art
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space/light/time, energy (busy), emotion (theatrical, dramatic), extravagance (excessive, dazzling)
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baldacchino
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canopy
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tenebrism
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strong contrasts of light and dark both within the subject and between the subject and the background/atmosphere
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middle class baroque background
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religion: protestant
politics: independent
economics: strong
suspicious of the catholic church and its propaganda but still loved art so they made it less frou-frou... not a lot of religious art either (celebrates the good life)
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Baroque musical goals
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evoke emotion, energetic rhythms and melodies, contrast, and form
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concerto
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composition with a principal of contrast. constant alternation between tutti and soloist(s). baroque.
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ritornello
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refrain.. something familiar that the tutti goes back to
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tuttie
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everyone plays, could also be called the ripieno
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program music
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instrumental music associated with a story, poem, idea, or scene. represents the emotions, characters, and events of a particular story or it can evoke the sounds and motions of nature. baroque.
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absolute music
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music for music's sake. doesnt tell a story or make reference to anything outside itself
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fugue
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composition focusing on a musical idea repeatedly. a catchy fragment that is easy to hang onto, and the listener listens for them. baroque.
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opera
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tells a story in music like a musical but with different composition type and singing style. ps, they sing EVERYHTING
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cantata
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singing sermons
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evangelist
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narrator
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recitative
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simple singing telling a story.
"im in a store and im singing"
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passion
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musical setting of the story of the death/resurrection of Jesus
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rococo background
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subset of the baroque, the nobility moves to paris after the king dies and they design their homes less extravagantly. its like baroque on a diet.
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characteristics of rococo
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NUDITY!!!!
also very shallow and meaningless. beautiful, but meant nothing.
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neoclassicism
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movement towards art that makes you a better person so looking back to greco-roman ways. NEW CLASSICAL ERA.
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characteristics of neoclassicism
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symmetry, intellect, art that matters
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classical revivals in architecture
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bringing back greece and rome because they were aligning themselves with greco-roman values. basically they put rome and greece on a pedastool.
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classicism in music
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couldnt really look back at greco-roman music but took their values and made music based on that (symmetry, form, appeal to the mind and the ears.) BUT! NOT AFRAID TO BREAK SOME RULES! (Hadyn)
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chamber music
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small group music, usually for home use. one person per part. string quartet could be one of these.
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rondo form
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what goes around comes around... there is a musical theme that keeps coming back and in between themes is something a little different from the theme.
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sonata form
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form as a means to appeal to the mind (relates to greco-roman love of balance, order, and structure). a game plan or procedure... general outline. exposition, development, recapituatlion, coda.
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romanticism
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age after napoleon, there is a sense of unrestrained and often innovative artistic activity. artists seek any means of self-expression. more of an attitude than technique.
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goals of romantic art
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express emotion, appealing to the heart. "the heart has reasons that Reason does not know".
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sublime
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blows you away... extraordinary.
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picturesque
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pretty as a picture, pleasing to the eyes.
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eclecticism in architecture
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picking and choosing from different styles of the past to relate to the building that is being built.
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romantic music
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music for all, a new sound, dynamics, tempo and expression, melody, harmony, form. there are lots of options to choose from when composing music that will be sure to express emotion adn evoke emotion.
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transition to impressionism
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had to do with the influence of beethoven breaking rules and doing your own thing... manet was trying to get there.
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goal of impressionism
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to present the immediate sensation (impression) through color and light. got away from the exactness and let paintings be paintings, not photographs
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impressionist music
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create an impression similar to what monet was doing in painting using dream-like scales that were blurry and indistinct, also different notes/scales/rhythms from the usual. uses sounds to paint a picture or tell a story.
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romantic sculpture
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busy, expresses emotion.
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pointillism
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use of color theory to paint with dots of color. used by Seurat. post-impressionism. keeps subject the same, also lots of color (the same too)
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cezanne method
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to make impressionism something solid and durable. reduced objects to geometrical shapes, patches of color, looking and presenting objects from more than one angle.
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cubism
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paint that glass and THROW IT ON THE GROUNNDDDDDDDD. there are still objects that you can see but they're not very clear. lots of different influences.
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madrigal
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secular song, one person per part, not strophic
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canzona
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related to chanson. originally just vocal, turned to instrumental music.
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stereo effect
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big churches, placing people everywhere, so its like surround sound
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post-impressionist musc
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about anything in the world, surprises you, sometimes unsettling. no set rhythm all the time, dissonance.
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impasto
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applying pant thickly with like a paint knife so that you can see that he was there and he painted this. post-impressionist.
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dada
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the world gone cray cray from uncertainty (war)
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ready made
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things that already existed and changing them in some way (orientation, adding something, etc.) and creating a "new thought" and calling it art.
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surrealism
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beyond the real... based on freud... crazies.
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cubism
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percieving things and portraying them from more than one angle.
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expressionism
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distortion of color and shape to produce emotion
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