GSFS 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Ritornello, Traditors

• School: McGill University
• Department: Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies
• Course: GSFS 250
• Professor: Marc Ducusin

Document Summary

Principal music genres of baroque music: concerto, ritornello form, alternation between orchestra and soloist, e. g. Violin concerto in g: keyboard music, prelude/fugues, e. g. Hallelujah chorus: primary effects, triumph, joy, passion, redemption, salvation. Instrumentation: trumpets and brass suggest stateliness, melodic contour, overarching rising motion in voices symbolizes christ"s ascent to heaven, texture, unison singing, 4-part harmony fugue-like entries with text and he shall reign in individual voices. The classical era: vienna, austria was the heartland of classical music, capital of the habsburg empire. The age of enlightenment: by 1750, enlightenment was flourishing across europe. Influential thinkers like voltaire and rousseau: rousseau: man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are : continuation of the spread of humanism and rationalism, church"s power majorly declined.