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| An intellectual movement that applied reason to issues of emotions, social relations, and politics. |
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Individual Rights
Naturalness
Universal Education
Social Equality |
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| Changes in Middle Class Pre-Classical |
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Larger middle class, public concerts, more music in the home, more private lessons
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| New Goals of mid and late 18th century music |
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1. Avoid contrapuntal complexity
2. Melodies with short phrases and simple accompanies
3. International Language
4. Appeal to all tastes
5. Natural sounding and immediately pleasing
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1. Melodies from repeated motives and short phrases
2. Combine phrases into larger periods
3. Simple harmonies with frequent cadences |
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-Originated in Italy
- Associated with CPE Bach
- Surprising turns in harmony, chromaticism, speechlike melodies |
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- Mozart and Haydn
- analogy to Greek and Roman art
- 1730 to 1815 |
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| Wrote Versuch einer Anleitung zur Composition, which applied principles of rhetoric and grammar to music. Sentences like periods of a melody... etc. |
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| - A hierarchy of cadences developed, with the strongest marking the end of a period, section, or movement. |
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- moods were allowed to change
- multiple affects within a section |
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- aka comic opera
- full-length work, sung throughout
- six+ characters
- charicatured aristocrats and commoners
- used stock characters from the commedia dell'arte
- dialogue set to rapidly delivered recitative |
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- Uses short tuneful phrases
- da capo form |
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- short, comic musical interlude between acts of a serious opera or play.
- plots typically are comedies involving ordinary people, sometimes parodying excess of serious operas.
- usually have only 2 singing roles, one of which is bass.
- music alternates between recitative and refrain |
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Intermezzo by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi with three characters questioning the social hierarchy
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