MUS 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lei Liang, Russia-2, Character Piece
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Genre- like a contract, the kind of content you expect in a world of literature, music, or in other categories. What you would expect from a designation like sci fi movie" or western classical music". Western classical music (wcm) genres include symphony, opera, concerto, sonata, chants, motets, cantatas. But wcm influences and is influenced by them. Borderline wcm genres: rock opera, songs of gershwin. The importance of genre: knowing the generic expectation, when the expectation if off, either it"s bad or if the composer/performer is surprising you. The ballade was originally in literature, used as a narrative poem to tell a story. Five stylistic periods: medieval and renaissance, fourth century bc (first notated score) to 1600, baroque period (1600-1750, classical period (1750-1800, romantic period (1800-1900, modern period ( 1900-now) Include composers like bach (german), handel (german in england), and vivaldi (italian) 18th century (late 17th century) pejorative sense of coarse", old-fashioned", bizarre".
