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I recommend opening up an additional window with our musical terms page when you first read this page. It has all of the terms you might not recognise on, with helpful explanations and examples.
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Musical FeaturesSTYLE:
Dance forms eg. Gavotte, minuet, allemande, courante, sarabande, gigue STRUCTURE: Dance forms are often binary (AB) TEMPO: Consistent, Regular, Metronomic DYNAMICS: Terraced Dynamics Tonality: Major or Minor, Tierce de Picardie RHYTHM: Simple and often dotted. TEXTURE: Contrapuntal TIME: Minuet 3/4 Gavotte: 2/4 or 4/4 Gigue - Compound time eg: 6/8 ARTICULATION: Ornamentation (Mordants, trills, gracenotes etc) Often makes use of staccato |
Composers(Click on the composer to hear some music. The music selected is all played by a Piano to help you practice listening to features on a piano, ready for the exam)
Arcangelo Corelli François Couperin Jean-Baptiste Lully Claudio Monteverdi Henry Purcell Jean-Philippe Rameau Alessandro Scarlatti Domenico Scarlatti Georg Philipp Telemann Antonio Vivaldi Harpists and Harp music: This section is just if you are interested and would like to play some music! Turlough O'Carolan |
Musical FeaturesSTYLE:
Alberti base STRUCTURE: Regular phrases and clearly defined forms. Typical forms Ternary and Binary form TEMPO: Gradually getting slower at the end is typical DYNAMICS: More contrasted than baroque but still simple TONALITY: Major or minor RHYTHM: Regular and often flowing/scalic/legato TEXTURE: Often Homophonic TIME: Usual time signatures: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8 ARTICULATION: Accented notes (e.g. Sfortzando) and some ornaments. Some pedalling. |
Composers(Click on the composer to hear some music. The music selected is all played by a Piano to help you practice listening to features on a piano, ready for the exam)
Bach Beethoven Clementi Dussek Haydn Mozart The main differences between Classical and Baroque music are: 1. Classical has more dynamic variety and more contrast 2. Classical music has less ornamentation 3. Pedalling is more common in Classical music 4. Classical pieces are more likely to use a rallentando and diminuendo at the end of piece. 5. There are more likely to be more accidentals and the music may modulate to closely related keys. Classical music is Baroque music that is a little more daring and bends the rules. |
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Dance forms such as Waltz, Mazurkas and Polonaises. Descriptive music - water, rivers, pictures, reflections and myths. TEMPO: Rubato is very common DYNAMICS: Lots of contrast and swells TONALITY: Rich harmonies, use of chromaticism, modulations to unexpected keys RHYTHM: Irregular groupings TEXTURE: Usually homophonic TIME: Usual time signatures: 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/8 ARTICULATION: Flamboyant flourishes |
Composers(Click on the composer to hear some music. The music selected is all played by a Piano to help you practice listening to features on a piano, ready for the exam)
Chopin Faure Grieg Mendelssohn Schubert Schumann Tchaikovsky Wagner The main differences between Romantic and Classical music are: 1. Romantic has lots of dynamic variety and explores the dynamic range of the instrument 2. Romantic music is less likely to have ornamentation 3. Romantic music has lots of pedalling and articulation 4. Romantic music explores the entire pitch range of the instrument 5. There can be lots of accidentals and the music may modulate to unexpected keys. Romantic music bends all of the Classical and Baroque rules. |
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Impressionism, Jazz, folk TEMPO: Flexible tempos and use of Rubato DYNAMICS: Wide range of dynamics. TONALITY: Dissonance common Atonal (no set key signature) Serialism - large intervals and jumpy disjointed melodic lines Modal RHYTHM: Changes of metre and complex rhythms are common. Syncopation in Jazz is very common TIME: Frequent changes of the time signature ARTICULATION: Articulation is clearly notated and very specific. |
Composers(Click on the composer to hear some music. The music selected is all played by a Piano to help you practice listening to features on a piano, ready for the exam)
Bartok Debussy Gershwin Prokofiev Ravel Shostakovich Stravinsky Vaughan Williams It can be hard to tell the difference between Romantic music and Impressionist music. Romantic music has more extreme and sudden changes in dynamics and rhythms. Impressionism (Early 20th Century music) is more natural and flowing and changes in dynamics etc are more gradual and flowing. Composers got excited to break the rules in the Romantic period and then mellowed a little in the Early 20th Century. |
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Lyrical, minimalism and influenced by other styles such as world music, jazz or rock. This music can often used in films. STRUCTURE: Lack of formal structures (this doesn't mean there won't be any it just means their might not too!) DYNAMICS: Lots of dynamic variations TONALITY: Major, minor or modal RHYTHM: Repetition of rhythms, cross-rhythms ARTICULATION: Varied |
Composers(Click on the composer to hear some music. The music selected is all played by a Piano to help you practice listening to features on a piano, ready for the exam)
Pierre Boulez Philip Glass Michael Nyman Steve Reich John Tavener |
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