HUMA 2002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Merriam-Webster, Gregorian Chant, List Of Compositions By Johann Sebastian Bach
9 Mar 2018
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A short history of traditional western music. Madaleine thein"s do not say we have nothing. Music: a short history of the western tradition. Its building blocks: melody, rhythm, harmony. Music"s beginnings in the western tradition: gregorian chant monophonic - one melody or voice: polyphonic - more than one melody at a time, many-voiced. An example of polyphony can be fund in fugue: a musical form in which a theme is rst stated (typically called the subject), then repeated and varied with accompanying contrapuntal (strongly di erentiated) lines. 22 in b at minor (mwv 891: sonata for piano and violin no. The classical, romantic, and modernist periods in traditional western music. Classical period: (1750-1820: wolfgang mozart, piano concerto no. Ludwig van beethoven, the grosse fugue (1827: richard wagner, flight of the valkyries (1856) Igor stravinsky, the opening from the rite of spring (1913) The sacri cial dance : arnold schoenberg, suite for piano, op.
