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Music History for Group Class 9/1/2015
Events in the History of Music
Aria and Recitative become independent (opera)
1648
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Baroque Era
1650 - 1750
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Characteristics: ornate objects and music (ornamentation); motor rhythm, polyphonic (multiple melodies) writing, binary (two-part) forms are popular
Baroque Era
1650
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Ornate art of all kinds (ornamentation in music); motor rhythm; binary (two`part) forms; polyphonic (multiple melodies)
Minuet popular
1650 - 1860
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Bartolomeo Cristofori
1655 - 1731
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Watch an original Cristofori in action. Incidentally, you will play this piece in Book 6
Clarinet invented
1655
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Henry Purcell
1659 - 1695
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English composer known for organ and keyboard as well as chamber orchestra compositions
Paris Opera opened
1671
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D. Scarlatti
1685 - 1757
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Handel
1685 - 1759
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3 great composers born in 1685!
J. S. Bach
1685 - 1750
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This year also is considered to be the onset of the BAROQUE PERIOD in music history.
First organ built in the Colonies
1704
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Philadelphia
Handel writes "Water Music"
1717
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Listen to at least the first 5 minutes of the Water Music to hear the use of the brass over that "motor rhythm".
Piano invented
1721
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http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_89.4.1219.jpg See an article and more photos of the earliest pianos
Vivaldi composes "The Four Seasons"
1726
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Very popular Spring
Franz Joseph Haydn
1732 - 1809
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Classical Era
1750 - 1820
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Music for Music's sake; strict forms; homophonic texture
Classical Era
1750
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Music for Music's Sake; homophonic (1 melody with accompaniment); balanced phrasing and forms; ABA and ABACA and Sonata-Allegro forms popular
Muzio Clementi
1752 - 1832
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Mozart
1756 - 1791
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More on Mozart
Mozart writes first piece
1761
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You won't want to miss hearing his first pieces
Mozart's First Symphony
1764
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Ludwig v. Beethoven
1770 - 1827
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Very important in the development of the piano and musical form and scope.
Mozart composed the Horn Concerto #3
1783
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Someone explain why this is significant, please.
Performance here
Beethoven' hearing diminishes
1790 - 1819
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Carl Czerny
1791 - 1857
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This is his teaching lineage . Follow it on the tabs ; then look at the chart and follow down from Beethoven until you get to YOU There are only 2 more teachers between Pressler and you!!!! http://menahempressler.org/img/pedigree.jpg
Beethoven writes first symphony
1799
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Beethoven writes the famous 5th symphony
1807
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Performance found here
Metronome
1815
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Franz Gruber writes "Silent Night"
1818
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World History
Elizabeth I dies at 25
1603
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Very independent for that time
Galileo used telescope to chart stars
1621
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Cape Cod founded
1639
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Isaac Newton
1642 - 1727
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Wrote "Principles of Mathematics",
Halley's Comet discovered
1656
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Isaac Newton writes "Principles of Mathmatics"
1687
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Salem Witch Trials
1692
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Voltaire born
1694
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Peter the Great builds St. Petersburg
1703
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Benjamin Franklin
1706 - 1790
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Statesman; inventor; author
First Lighthouse in US
1716
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George Washington
1732 - 1799
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Franklin stove invented
1740
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Boston Tea Party
1773
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American Revolution
1775 - 1781
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Cook discovers Hawaii
1778
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US Constitution
1789
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Washington elected
1789
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Smallpox Vaccine invented (E. Jennings)
1796
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Lewis and Clark???
1803
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Noah Webster publishes American Dictionary
1828
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Louis Braille invented "Braille"
1834
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