music term 2 - collegiate

Music Term 2

Home-schooling Package

Grade 7 (2020)

Step 1: Style Periods:

• Memorise each style period and their dates

• Learn the 5 characteristics of each of the four style periods

• You must know 2 composers per style period

Step 2: Composers:

• Listen to the Famous Pieces summarised the Playlist page.

• Learn each composers details (Name, Surname, Dates, Instruments and facts)

• Complete the two worksheets.

• I included 3 of last years composers that I have updated

and that you should know as well.

Stay safe girls & missing our fun Monday classes!

Hopefully see you soon, ok!

Baroque

Period 1600 - 1750

• Ornamental

• Extravagant

• Harpsichord and Organ

• Improvised

• Dance Music

• Vivaldi

• Handel

• Bach

Classic

Period 1750 - 1825

• Simple and natural

• Strict rules

• Symphony

• Forte-piano

• Traditional

• Haydn

• Mozart

• Beethoven

Romantic

Period 1825 - 1900

• Programmatic Music

• Emotional and adventurous

• Tempo rubato

• Interest in: Foreign, super-

natural and exotic

• New Sounds

• Debussy

• Dvorak

• Chopin

• Mendelssohn

• Tchaikovsky

Modern

Period 1900 - present

• Experimental

• Mix of cultures

• Electronic music

• Technology and science

• All sound = music

(even NO sound is music)

• Ravel

• Bartok

• Joplin

Style Periods Even though, we all think of ‘classical’ music as really old music, written by really old guys, a really really long time ago, this

cannot be further from the truth! Everything we hear in music these days, originally came from these ‘old guys’ in the old

days from ‘old music’… So check out how music developed!

Classical Period

Wolfgang amadeus

Mozart

1756 - 1791

Some of his

Famous

Pieces:

1. Requiem

2. Magic Flute

3. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

4. Marriage of Figaro

DID YOU KNOW A COMPOSER is a person who

writes a music piece and that is

his professional occupation . He

shows us on the notation how to

play it (loud, soft, fast or slow)

He wrote Over

600

compositions (music pieces)

in total!

He was born in Austr ia (Sa lzburg)

He played

the

FollowinG

instruments:

Violin and

Piano

His works included:

21 stage and opera works, 15 Masses,

over 50 symphonies, 25 piano concertos,

12 violin concertos, 27 concert arias,

17 piano sonatas, 26 string quartets,

and many other pieces.

1678 - 1741

Antonio

v ivald i

Baroque Period

Some of his

Famous

Pieces:

1. The Four Seasons

2. Gloria

3. Magnificat

4. Mandolin Concerto

DID YOU KNOW A Concerto is a musical compo-

sition consisting of 3 move-

ments for solo instrument,

accompanied by an orchestra

He wrote more Than

500 Compositions

in total!

He was born in Venice ( I ta ly ) .

He played

the

FollowinG

instruments:

Violin

Detail about the

concerto’s he wrote

About 350 of his works were for solo instrument &

strings, of which 230 are for violin. The others are

for bassoon, cello, oboe, flute, viola, recorder,

lute, or mandolin.

FU

N F

AC

TS

Pyotr Ilyich

Tcha ikovsky

1840 - 1893

Some of his

Famous

Pieces:

1. Swan Lake

2. The Nutcracker

3. 1812 Overture

4. Symphony Nr. 6

FUN FACT

Real canons,

church bells

and fireworks

are often used

when

performing the

1812 Overture

He

played the

Following

instrument:

Piano

He was a Russian Composer

Romantic Period

He wrote

169


in total!

Symphony Nr 6

was also known as

Symphony

Pathetique

SYMPHONY

An elaborate musical

composition for full orchestra,

typically in four movements. At

least one of these movements

is traditionally in sonata form.

1868 - 1917

Scott

J opl in

He l ived in Amer ica

Some of his

Famous

Pieces:

1. The Entertainer

2. Ragtime Dance

3. Peacherine Rag

4. March Majestic

He wrote over

100


in total!

He played

the

FollowinG

instruments:

Piano

Modern

Period

Modern music This period includes a wide variety of

music genres which includes:

Pop, Rock, Electro, County, Tech-

no, Blues, Dubstep and electronic

to name a few.

He wrote over 100

original ragtime piec-

es, one ragtime ballet,

and two operas.

He was known as the King of Ragtime

DETECTIVE CLUE WHO AM I?

1 I am a Russian composer

2 I composed during the Classical Period

3 I composed Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

4 I was born in 1868

5 I wrote over a thousand compositions.

6 I played the Violin

7 I speak Russian

8 I am an American

9 I passed away in 1741

10 I am well known for my ballet music

11 I composed for mandolin and lute

12 I composed the 1812 Overture

13 I composed during the Modern period

14 We could only play the Piano

15 I lived in Salzburg

JOPLIN MOZART TCHAIKOVSKY VIVALDI

Which

Super

composer

am i?

After learning all those

impressive facts about

our chosen four

composers, read the

clue on the left and

fill in our super

composer’s name

on the right!

Composers Which style period did these guys live in and how old were they when they died?

Purcell (1659-1695) Chopin (1810-1849) Haydn (1732-1809) Copland (1900-1990)

Brahms (1833-1897) Handel (1685-1759) Dvorak (1841-1904) Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Schumann (1810-1856) Scarlatti (1685-1757) Ravel (1875-1937) Liszt (1811-1886)

Modern 1900 - now

Classical 1750 - 1819

Romantic 1820 - 1900

Your choices are:

Baroque 1600 - 1749

Listening

list

Did you listen to the following songs?

There will be an assessment when we are back at school on this part of the work - where I play you these

pieces and you will have to select, from the list provided, what piece I played!

G O OD LUCK … AND HAPPY L ISTEN ING

(definitely a different playlist from what you have been listening to during the Lock Down! )

Vivaldi Mozart

1. Swan Lake

2. The Nutcracker

3. 1812 Overture

4. Symphony Nr. 6

1. The Entertainer

2. Ragtime Dance

3. Peacherine Rag

4. March Majestic

1. The Four Seasons

2. Gloria

3. Magnificat

4. Mandolin Concerto

Tchaikovsky Joplin

1. Requiem

2. Magic Flute

3. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

4. Marriage of Figaro

He was born in Germany

Baroque Period

Johann Sebastian

Bach

1685 - 1750

Some of his

Famous

Pieces:

1. Art of Fugue

2. Tocatta and Fugue

3. Brandonberg Concertos

4. Well tempered Clavier

DID YOU KNOW A COMPOSER is a person who

writes a music piece and that is

his professional occupation . He

shows us on the notation how to

play it (loud, soft, fast or slow)

He wrote

1128


in total!

He played

the

FollowinG

instruments:

Organ and

Harpsichord

The most wel l -known composer of a l l t imes!

1770 - 1827 CLASSICAL Period

Ludwig von

Beethoven

Some of his

Famous

Pieces:

1. Fur Elise

2. Symphony Nr 5

3. Moonlight Sonata

4. Egmont Overture

5. Symphony Nr 9

DID YOU KNOW Beethoven found at in his 20s that he

was loosing his hearing and by the time

Symphony Nr9 was performed he was

completely deaf—he never heard what it

sounded like!

He wrote

772


in total!

He l ived in Austr ia and Germany

He played

the

FollowinG

instruments:

Piano, Violin

and Viola

Symphony Nr 5 has a 4-note motive that sounds like some-

one knocking—that is called “fate knocking at the door”. He

composed this symphony when he found out he was going

deaf and he was very sad and upset at this stage.

Symphony Nr.9 was the first symphony that had vocal parts

(choir) - Usually a symphony was for orchestra only.

FU

N F

AC

TS

1875 - 1937 Modern

Period

Maurice

Ravel

He l ived in France

Some of his

Famous

Pieces:

1. Bolero

2. La Valse

3. Piano Concerto for the

left hand

4. Daphnis et Chloe

He wrote

85


in total!

He played

the

FollowinG

instruments:

Piano

Modern music This period includes a wide variety of

music genres which includes:

Pop, Rock, Electro, County, Tech-

no, Blues, Dubstep and electronic

to name a few.

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