MUS111H1 Lecture : Rhythm
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Main stylistic eras of western music: middle ages (medieval): ca. 1400: main music found in the church (the literate people were there, renaissance: ca. 1600: rebirth time (the church and nobility lost some authority and common folk discovered they might have talent, baroque: ca. 1750: dramatic period (opera, bach, vivaldi, raised level of emotion, classical: ca. 1800: music very removed, carefully organized, balanced (mozart, young beethoven, 19th century: ca. 10th century: very proportioned, very balanced, sense of peacefulness, very rhythmically laid back, non-metric music www. notesolution. com, hoquet or hocket: derived from the latin word for hiccup". Stylistic device characterized by the distribution of a melodic line between two voices in such a way that as one sounds, the other is silent i. e. guillaume de machaut, mass of our lady, kyrie (ca. Baroque & classical: recitative: a style of text setting that imitates and emphasizes the natural inflections, rhythms, and syntax of speech i. e. henry purcell, dido and auneas (1689).
