MUL 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: String Quartet, Pentatonic Scale, Program Music
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First music to thrive long after its time. More realistic opera plots and characters (mozart and opera buffa) 4 movements in a string quartet: sonata, theme and variation, minuet. Periodic phrase structure: use of antecedent and consequent phrases. Haydn was music director for prince nicholas esterhazy. After the prince"s death, he traveled to england and vienna. Haydn composed string quartets, operas, sonatas, and symphonies. Extra-musical: ideas beyond the realm of sound (program music) His largest orchestra would have about 40 players. Mozart symphony #40 in g minor k. ( kershel) Exposition: introduces al thematic ideas and a modulation to a contrasting key. Recapitulation: themes of exposition are restated, all in tonic key. His sister was a child genius as well. Moved to vienna but failed to get a court appointment. Cadenza: a moment when the soloist can display his or her virtuosity to the fullest, trill signals end.