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Introduced 500-600 songs into worship
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This describes the motion of the voices being parallel or oblique. Vox Principalis is the melody, and Vox Organalis is the second voice.
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Introduced 4 line staff, relative pitch, and sight singing
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Nun who wrote lots of musics.
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1100-1350
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Leonin- 1163-1190
Perotin- 1190-1225 -
Developed mensural notation (double long, long, breve, semi-breve)
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this man revolutionized the church musics.
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Philippe de Vitry, developed notation even further (breve, semibreve, and minum)
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Famous organ player and namesake of the Landini cadence.
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Italian Spice Girls, but not really. They put the female voice on the market in Italy
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Venice, St. Mark's Cathedral, first piece of music to specify dynamics and instrumentation.
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The first opera
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People could now pay to hear music, which meant the middle class had some influence over music, as opposed to nobility and the church.
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Weimar 1708-1717
Cöthen 1717-1723
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1710-named music director for Elector in Hanover
1711-Rinaldo
1714-Elector becomes King George I
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Purcell's only opera, and is influenced by French and Italian trends.
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Set of 12 concertos for strings, published in Amsterdam
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Combined elements of solo concerto and concerto grosso
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The basis of modern music theory
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E Q U A L T E M P E R M E N T 24 Preludes and fugues
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Op. 33 1782
1784- Gathering of connoisseurs that were "tolerable"
The Creation 1798
The Seasons 1801
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Divided into 3 parts, each about a different part of Jesus' life
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Tours: 1762-1774
Salzburg: 1774-1781
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The man who needs no explanation on who he is.Born in Bonn, Germany, 1787, went to Vienna. 1792, moved to Vienna.
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Director of Concert des Amateurs from 1773-1775
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Romantic composer primarily for piano. Put a lot of poems by Goethe to song, like Der Erlkonig and Gretchen am Spinnrade. Held evening "concerts" at his home called Schubertiades.
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Da da da daaaaaaaaaa. Also featured cutting edge trombones.
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A poem by Göthe, really popular because people liked premature death. Also, the composition was pretty cool.
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Premiered in 1816, cavatina, cantabile, and cabaletta.
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Composed in 1805, but published in 1820.
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Premiered in 1824. Beethoven's last symphony. Used a choir.
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Traditional Polish folk songs written for piano because Chopin got homesick and wanted to preserve his heritage. Usually, mazurkas were for a band.
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Berlioz's first and most famous work. Written because Berlioz was obsessed with Harriet Smithson. A primary example of programme music, which is music that tells a story.
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21 piano pieces that cycle between characters at a ball, such as Florestan, Eusebius, Chiarina, and Estrella.
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One of the best piano suites written.
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Poem by Friedrich Ruckart, one of C.W. Schumann's more famous compositions.
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Discussed the instruments to be used in an orchestra, how the orchestra should function, and how the conductor should be an interpreter of the music, rather than just keep time.
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Really influential work that encouraged that all the movements be connected, as opposed to being abstract when compared to each other.
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A solo piano piece that incorporated syncopated rhythms, and this slapped when it was received in Europe, and it still slaps to this day I love this piece so much.
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You know, tonality was a myth.
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Opera of a man who becomes tsar...one way or another. Lotta unconventional harmony because Russian composers liked to break rules.
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Ended up being the most popular opera of all time even though it wasn't well received initially.
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4 music dramas, and it has Flight of the Valkyries, so it's pretty cool.
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Brahms was a neo-classicist, so used many un-romantic chord progressions and harmonies. This symphony uses voice, so that's pretty cool.
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The story of a hero. The third and fourth movements are masterpieces.
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Ballet choreographed by some famous choreographer. Music is pretty cool, too.
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Czech composer lives in America whilst surrounded by other Czech composers writing music to encapsulate the American Spirit.
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Orchestral impressionistic work
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Orchestral work that later became the national anthem of Finland.
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Some chad American tries to wife up a geisha woman but leaves her and she kills herself.
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Fire symphony that was very well received after its premiere.
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Started off as film music, now it's standard repertoire.
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This 50 minute quartet uses bird calls, and was inspired by the Book of Revelation.
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Music for the namesake ballet.
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The best, most virtuous piano piece ever written that totally isn't a joke.
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Debuted at the 1958 World Fair.
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Maaaaan, jazz is too complicated. Let me just lay back and play some "cool" jazz.
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A fever dream of a piece that protests the horrors of war, more specifically, the Vietnam War.
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Upbeat "fanfare for orchestra".