Baroque vs' Classical

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Baroque vs. Classical

• An Introduction to Listening for Melodies

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What are they?

• Baroque and Classical are specific periods of
  music
• Baroque 1600 1750
• Classical 1750 - 1820

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What are they?

• They are also distinct in the way they sound
• Baroque Ornate (trills)
• Complex (skips)
• Fast
• Harpsichords

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What are they?

• They are also distinct in the way they sound
• Classical Simple (steps)
• Balanced
• Not too fast
• No more harpsichord

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Major Composers

• Baroque
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Antonio Vivaldi
• Domenico Scarlatti
• George Friedric Handel
• Johann Pachebel

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Major Composers

• Classical
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Franz Joseph Haydn
• Christoph Willibald Gluck

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Lets Play Jeopardy

• Answer questions
• Identify what period an event or composer is from
• Identify what period a piece of music is from
  based on how it sounds
• Is it Major or Minor?
• Final Jeopardy

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Baroque vs. ClassicalPart II

• An Introduction to Listening for Melodies

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Historical Events

• Remember these dates?
• Baroque 1600 1750
• Classical 1750 - 1820

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Lets look at what was happening

• Baroque
• 1605 Guy Fawkes tries to blow up Parliament
• 1609 Galileo invents telescope
• 1620 Pilgrims land in North America
• 1666 Isaac Newton figures out gravity
• 1692 Salem witch trials
• 1733 Benjamin Franklin publishes
• Poor Richards Almanac

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Lets look at what was happening

• Classical
• 1775 American Revolution begins
• 1776 Declaration of Independence
• 1789 George Washington becomes president
• 1792 French Revolution begins
• 1803 Louisiana Purchase made
• 1812 War of 1812 Star Spangled Banner

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Composers

• Now lets look at some of these guys..

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Johann Sebastian Bach
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George Friedric Handel
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Antonio Vivaldi
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Domenico Scarlatti
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Franz Joseph Haydn
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
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Good Luck!!