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Listening Mat

The document provides a timeline of Western classical music from 1450 to 1900 organized by era and listing important composers of each period. It also includes a table outlining key musical elements like tonality, harmony, articulation, dynamics, timbre, and melody that developed over this period. The timeline shows the transition from the medieval to Renaissance to Baroque eras up to the Classical, Romantic, and early modern periods. The table describes characteristics of music like the use of major and minor scales, dissonance and chromaticism, and articulations like staccato and legato over the centuries.

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Listening Mat

The document provides a timeline of Western classical music from 1450 to 1900 organized by era and listing important composers of each period. It also includes a table outlining key musical elements like tonality, harmony, articulation, dynamics, timbre, and melody that developed over this period. The timeline shows the transition from the medieval to Renaissance to Baroque eras up to the Classical, Romantic, and early modern periods. The table describes characteristics of music like the use of major and minor scales, dissonance and chromaticism, and articulations like staccato and legato over the centuries.

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1450 1650

Medieval Renaissance Baroque


Machaut Perotin Dufay Josquin Purcell Corelli
Dunstable Palestrina Victoria Handel Bach Vivaldi
Byrd Gabrieli Lully Couperin
Dowland Scarlatti

Tonality Textures
major
monophonic
minor homophonic
modal polyphonic

Harmony Contrapuntal textures/techniques


dissonant imitation canon round
diminished fugue/fugato

pedal points
__________
Homophonic textures
chromatic broken chords/Alberti bass
melody + chords
Cadences
perfect plagal

imperfect interrupted

Keys and Chords

Articulation
staccato
slurred/legato
accented

Dynamics
forte
piano
crescendo
diminuendo
sforzando
terraced
1750 1830 1900
Classical Romantic Modern
Gluck Stamitz Beethoven Weber Schoenberg Berg
CPE
Bach
Clementi Webern
JC Boccherini Haydn Schumann Stravinsky
Bach Mozart Mendelssohn
Beethoven Berlioz Chopin Liszt Bartok Orff Poulenc
Verdi Puccini Ives Copland
Brahms Rossini Bernstein
Wagner Vaughan Williams Holst
Tchaikovsky Prokofiev Shostakovich
Rachmaninov Britten Tippett
Rimsky-Korsakov Messaien
Bruckner Mahler
Strauss
Elgar Debussy Ravel

hemiola ostinato

regular syncopated

Timbre
Melody
Brass Woodwind Percussion Strings Electronic
Trumpet Piccolo Timpani Violin Synth
Horn Flute Tambourine Viola Guitar chromatic
Trombone Oboe Triangle Cello Keyboard
Tuba Clarinet Castanets Double conjunct
bass
Bassoon Piano/Celeste Harp disjunct
Saxophone
lyrical

sequence

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