1. 1750 A.D. to 1800 A.D. A return to the intellect
Classical Period
1750 A.D. to 1800 A.D.
A return to the intellect

2. Politics/Cultural Political Democracy Revolutions
Prior to this time everything was a monarchy
Revolutions
American Revolution – 1776
Americans vs. British
Colony vs. Empire
French Revolution – 1789
Bloody
French vs. French
Citizens vs. Nobility
Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI beheaded 1793
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7. Politics/Cultural White House built – 1792
Benjamin Franklin experimenting with electricity
Discovery of Oxygen (1774) and Hydrogen (1776)
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8. Music Piano Change from the harpsichord Forte Piano Concert
First time the word is used
First time we really have people who are interested in coming to concerts or public events
Sonata – three or four separate movements written for a single instrument, or for a combination of instruments
Four stringed instruments – string quartet
For an orchestra – symphony
For solo instrument with orchestra accompaniment – concerto
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9. Music
Sonata Form – the standard form for instrumental pieces during the Classical period
(Exposition) (Development) (Recapitulation)
║: Theme I Modulation Cadence :║: Development Modulation Recapitulation Cadence:║
Classic Symphony
Outline of the 4 movement Classic Symphony
Movement
Tempo
Key
Form
First
Fast
Tonic
Sonata Form
Second
Slow
Related Key
Ternary, sonata form, theme & variation, rondo
Third
Moderately Fast
compound ternary
Fourth
Fastest
Sonata form, rondo, or sonata-rondo

10. Music Leitmotif – musical name for character, place, thing or idea
Etude vs. Exercise
Etude – piece of music that features at least one difficult technique
Exercise – piece that focuses on drills and specific techniques
Leitmotif – musical name for character, place, thing or idea

11. Composers Christoph Willibald Gluck Known as a reformer of opera
Reforms
Music without over the top ornamentation, expressive of the text, appropriate to the drama
Each aria should fit the situation
Get rid of the sharp contrast between the recitative and aria
Relate the overture to the ensuing drama
Ultimately sought for a balance between drama and music

12. Composers – Cont. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Great ability to play by the age of 4, composing by the age of 6.
Le Nozze di Fiagro
Die Zauberflöte – The Magic Flute
Key types
G major – Comic characters
G minor – painful situations
F major – the priests
C minor – the otherworldly

13. Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”
Oh Help Me – Tamino
The Best Birdcatcher – Papageno
You must free my daughter – Queen
A Girlfriend – Papageno
O endless night – Tamino
O Listen – Tamino
Let us Hurry – Pamina, Papageno
What tinkles so brightly – Chorus

19. Composers – Cont. Benjamin Franklin Thomas Jefferson American Music
Glass Harmonica
Thomas Jefferson
After the federal library was burned during the War of 1812, he sold his books from his personal library to the government
Had nine writings on music, and they form the core of the Music Division of the Library of Congress