Study Guide Quiz 4 complete by Thursday 22 October midnight MUMH 1600 005 Fall 2015 De Rycke People Places Things Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Lived in Vienna A genius with compositions have a perfection and a clarity that has rarely been equaled Struggled to be successful Child prodigy Prague loved Mozart Ending in a mass grave no money Pg 181 Ludwig van Beethoven pg 212 to 214 Viennese School Leopold II Archduke of Austria Vienna in the Classical Period pg 209 to 212 Prague Pg 178 to 179 Bondini Opera Company Started by Pasquale Bondini Pg 180 Lorenzo da Ponte Masterful plot Don Giovanni One of the most skillful librettists of his day an italian poet and dramtist Pg 183 How did Mozart earn his living vs how did Beethoven earn his Beethoven dedicate a work to a patron performing in the public for paying audiences Private concerts and recitals First to establish himself as an independent professional doing business for himself and composing whatever he liked Mozart struggled to be his own independent composer Covers Kelly Chapters 7 8 Terms Classical Roughly 1750 to 1825 Classic Period Music is known as Classical music includes the works of Mozart Beethoven and Schubert and represents the era in which instrumental music became as important as vocal music Short period in time as a lifespan Neoclassical A turning away from the ornamental Baroque toward order symmetry and simplicity Age of Enlightenment Age of Reason music called Enlightenment music Italian Opera Recitative Are the passages where the singers are accompanied by harpsichord or later piano Pianist plays brisk short chords while the characters advance the plot in dialogue usually delivered at talking speed and with speech inflections Aria Is dramatic as well as musical When the aria is being sung time generally slows down or stops its like a freeze frame in a film a moment in which a character reflects on or explains something exclaims in joy or outrage or reacts to the unfolding of the plot duet ensemble several characters not only sing beautiful music but advance the plot at the same time Some in which everybody sings at once but expressing different ideas and feelings Most of the music and action takes place here Serious vs Comic vocal styles Operia Seria We saw in connection with Handel generally deals with mythical or historical subjects The human characters are a ll gods or members of the nobility and behave in elevated fashion Mozart and Handel both wrote splendid examples of serious operas Opera Buffa in not peopled exclusively with nobles Can have servants drunks buffoons There is no expectation that everybody must act in high minded fashion Indeed it is the mixture of people of various social ranks that often causes the complications in the plots of comic operas that straddle the line between comedy and tragedy Patter song characterised by a moderately fast to very fast tempo with a rapid succession of rhythmic patterns in which each syllable of text corresponds to one note The Marriage of Figaro Comic masterpiece by Mozart Don Giovanni Can be seen as a subversive work in a repressive and authoritarian society the opera makes a certain amount of social commentary observing fine distinctions among aristocrats peasants and those in between as well as ways in which one group abuses or outsmarts another Based on the famous story of Don Juan the insatiable lover who chases women seduces them to add to his collection and treats them as objects Pg 184 Mozart s late operas Heiligenstadt Testament Beethoven symphony No 5 place in history innovations Psychological development in symphony no 5 Symphony 4 movement format know character of each movement Sonata form A vessel so flexible that it can provide a basic framework for many hundreds even thousands of movements without seeming in any way rigid conventional or overused It is the most complex and the most frequently found of the muscial forms in the Classic period Theme Exposition A theme is presented A transitional passage leads to a new mood and a new key At this point one or more contrasting themes are presented A final passage leads to a conclusion which stays in the new key Seems incomplete does not end in the original key Bridge Development A new section follows that is related to one or other of the previous themes but that raises the energy level and the anxiety level by various stratagems designed to confuse or mislead so that the listener is relieved when then next section occurs At the end retransition leads sometimes urges us back toward the home key Recapitulation The opening theme returns just as in the beginning A transitional passage similar to the first one leads to a repetition of the second theme or group but this time in the original key The conclusi n passage from before brings the movement to a close The conclusi n makes us feel like home Coda ending section TAIL To close the movement as a whole Thematic unity Symphony No 5 Minuet Trio AABB CCDD AB Scherzo joke it is faster than a minuet but retains the same form