MUS- M 402 1st EditionLecture 5Outline of Last Lecture I. Rondo FormII. Josef HaydnIII. Haydn as an Old Model of PatronageOutline of Current Lecture I. The Voice of a Castrato: Does Music actually get simpler or more complex? II. Sonata FormCurrent LectureI. 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 ina complex and complicated manner. b. Castrato- a male classical voice type equivalent to the range of a soprano or mezzo-soprano. 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 Forma. With Haydn, we begin to use the term and format of what we now refer to as Sonata Form.i. Sonata Form- Exposition Development Recapitulationll: A: I - B: V - V :ll: V ~ A: I - B:I :ll1. 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
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