Transcript CHAPTER 17 pp_ 476-481 - Point Loma High School

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New style of art began in 1730’s
Grace and gentle action
Rejected strict geometrical patterns -> favored
curves
Delicacy, lightness, charm
Secular – expressed pleasure, happiness, and
love
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One of the greatest of the Rococo painters
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Depictions of aristocratic life
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Fat ladies in frilly dresses, ribbons and
bonnets, hanging out in flowery gardens
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Pleasure and joy
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Continued from the 17th
into the 18th century
Dignity and simplicity of
the classical style of
ancient Greece and Rome
Influenced by the
excavations of
Herculaneum and
Pompeii
Jacques-Louis David =
The Oath of the Horatii
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The 17th and 18th
centuries were the
formative years for
classical music =
Baroque music 16001750
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Opera
The Oratorio
The sonata
The Concerto
The Symphony
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Greatest of the
baroque composers
German
Produced a large
family of musicians
Worked as organist,
court music director,
choir
master/kapellmesiter
Majority of work was
church music
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Brandenburg Concertos
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Toccatta and Fugue
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Mass in B Minor
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Goldberg Variations
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Christmas Oratorio
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Jesu, joy of man’s desiring
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German baroque –
lived and worked in
England
Primarily secular
Significant
compositions – Music
for the Royal Fireworks,
Water Musik, Messiah
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THE CLASSICAL ERA 1750-1830 = period of
music which followed the baroque era
Orchestral music
New musical instruments -> bigger and more
diverse sounds
Larger groupings of musicians
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Austrian classical
composer
Worked for Prince
Esterhazy in Hungary
Composed 104
symphonies
The Surprise Symphony,
The Philosopher
Symphony, The Farewell
Symphony
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Austrian classical
composer
Genius and child
prodigy -> 1st concert
at age 6, 1st opera at age
12
Wrote 41 symphonies
Operas = Don Giovanni,
The Marriage of Figaro,
The Magic Flute
Died miserable and
penniless at age 35
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18TH century marked
the full development
of the novel as a
literary genre
English writers are
key to establish the
centrality of the novel
Samuel Richardson –
Pamela = a good girl
Henry Fielding – Tom
Jones = a bad boy
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The enlightenment
transformed the study
and writing of history
Remove god from
historical study
Secular explanations
and causation
New social science
approach
Broadened scope of
study -> economic,
social, intellectual,
cultural
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Edward Gibbon