Music Study Guide Unit 4 PDF

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This is a music study guide, focusing on different genres of classical music, like sonatas, chamber music, and concertos. It delves into the formal elements, historical context, and artistic influences of these pieces.

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Enlightenment. of emotional restraint and proportion. 20Music%20Samples? preview=606632 https://sfuhs.instructure. com/courses/3963/files/folder/ Evokes despair and urgency through its minor Reflects the growing Romantic ideals Connects to the Romantic transition in art, 5%20Music/5%20-% Symphony in G minor Mozart Symphony key, intense dynamics, and dramatic of individual emotion and struggle where emotional intensity and individual 20Classical%20Era% orchestration. during Mozart's time. expression began to take precedence. 20Music/Music/*Mozart% 20Music%20Samples? preview=606406 https://sfuhs.instructure. com/courses/3963/files/folder/ Composed as an example of social Reflects the playfulness and elegance seen 5%20Music/5%20-% Light, multi-movement, 4 strings, music, providing entertainment in Rococo art, such as Fragonard's The 20Classical%20Era% A Little Night Music Mozart Serenade intended for outdoor entertainment during informal gatherings for the Swing, with its flirtatious and lighthearted 20Music/Music/*Mozart% middle class in 18th-century tone. 20Music%20Samples? Europe. preview=605655 https://sfuhs.instructure. Showing how inventive composers could be com/courses/3963/files/folder/ with popular music. Demonstrates the Classical ideal of Highlights the creativity of Classical 5%20Music/5%20-% Twinkle Twinkle Mozart Theme and Variation Alters or changes the melody, pitch, rhythm, taking simple themes and developing composers, paralleling visual artists who 20Classical%20Era% harmony or musical mode. them into complex, elegant reinterpreted traditional subjects in 20Music/Music/*Mozart% The theme is still recognizable but doesn't compositions. innovative ways. 20Music%20Samples? sound the same. preview=606407 https://sfuhs.instructure. A love of ornamentation and extravagance, com/courses/3963/files/folder/ Combines dramatic and comedic elements Reflects Enlightenment ideas of mirrored in the vocal embellishments of 5%20Music/5%20-% Don Giovanni Mozart Opera Seria with intense vocal and orchestral justice and consequence, while opera seria. 20Classical%20Era% expressions; explores themes of morality and critiquing aristocratic excess. A focus on drama and contrast, using 20Music/Music/*Mozart% punishment. dynamic shifts and intense emotional 20Music%20Samples? expression. preview=605879 Feature Sonata Concerto String Quartet Serenade Symphony Opera Theme and Variation Solo instrument (sometimes with piano Light, multi-movement piece, often Singers + orchestra, telling a One theme is repeated Main focus accompaniment) Soloist + Orchestra Four instruments (2 violins, viola, cello) for strings Full orchestra story with modifications Varies (divided into acts and Varies (depends on the Number of movements 3 or 4 3 4 Varies (often 4–7) 4 scenes) number of variations) Intimate, for private or Large-scale, for public Often performed outdoors or in social Can be played in any Performance setting small settings performance Chamber music, small concert halls or salons gatherings Large concert halls Opera houses, theaters setting Features a solo cadenza Cadenza Rarely used in the first movement No No No No No More intimate and Virtuosic and dramatic for Interplay between four instruments, equal Large-scale, rich harmonies and Combines music, drama, and Varies from simple to Complexity expressive soloist voices Light, elegant, and entertaining orchestration acting highly elaborate