MUS M 402 1st Edition Lecture 5 Outline of Last Lecture I Rondo Form II Josef Haydn III Haydn as an Old Model of Patronage Outline of Current Lecture I The Voice of a Castrato Does Music actually get simpler or more complex II Sonata Form Current Lecture I The Voice of a Castrato Does Music actually get simpler or more complex a Music of the Classical Period can be compared to building with Legos small simple pieces and basic building blocks are used however they can be arranged in a complex and complicated manner b Castrato a male classical voice type equivalent to the range of a soprano or mezzosoprano i To create the voice type of a male castrato male voices were altered before puberty ii The last known castrato voice was recorded in 1902 iii Today male castrato voice parts are sung by a contralto or a female soprano or mezzo soprano The operation is no longer performed II Sonata Form a With Haydn we begin to use the term and format of what we now refer to as Sonata Form i Sonata FormExposition ll A I B V V ll Development V Recapitulation A I B I ll 1 The FOP or far out point is reached late in the Development when we are in a key area that is furthest away from the tonic or home key 2 Caesura a large punctuation mark or cadence ending a particular phrase of music frequently used in Sonata Form to distinguish between sections
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