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Check My Assignment!Unit 3 will focus on the Classical period of music. This is what most people associate with classical music. Here we get to study some of the most famous composers of all time, Beethoven. Mozart, and Hayden. If anyone has seen the movie “Amadeus” then they will have seen a very dramatized Mozart and Salieri from the Classical period.
Objectives:
By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
Define different types of musical composition styles.
Identify Classical composers and their respective compositions.
Identify and formulate the links between Classical music, its predecessors, and the following period.
Listen critically to Classical period western compositions and identify composer’s stylistic contributions during that era.
Activities:
Read the Mini Lesson
Memorize the music definitions.
Participate in the Discussion Board
Watch the Unit 3 videos
Complete the Theme and Variation activity
Take unit 3 quiz
Lesson 3 Reading
Reading:
Tarasti, E. (2012). Semiotics of Classical Music : How Mozart, Brahms and Wagner Talk to Us. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
Part 1
Schweizer, S. L. (2010). Timpani Tone and the Interpretation of Baroque and Classical Music. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Chapter 4
Definitions:
String quartet – A quartet of performers on stringed instruments usually including a first and second violin, a viola, and a cello
Serenade – An instrumental composition in several movements, written for a small ensemble, and midway between the suite and the symphony in style
Divertimento – An instrumental chamber work in several movements usually light in character
Overture – A piece of music played at the start of an opera, a musical play, etc.
Symphony – A long piece of music that is usually in four large, separate sections and that is performed by an orchestra
Exposition – The first part of a musical composition in sonata form in which the thematic material of the movement is presented
Recapitulation – The third section of a sonata form
Modulation – A change from one musical key to another
Coda – A concluding musical section that is formally distinct from the main structure
Sonata – An instrumental musical composition typically of three or four movements in contrasting forms and keys
Concerto – A piece for one or more soloists and orchestra with three contrasting movements
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