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Rococo style
1720 to 1775 in France
Simple, elegant, graceful, and delicately ornamented
Style galant
Empfindsamer Stil
1750, Germany
More enhanced and intensified expressiveness
Heightened emotional quality
Preclassical style
1740 to 1770
Fusions of styles employed during Baroque, Preclassical, and Classical periods
Texture
follows homophonic texture
Melody
Classical melodies are typically short, lyrical, and easy to sing
More diatonic than Baroque music
Harmony
It is strongly tonal because key signatures are firmly established during this period. It uses more of the primary chordsโtonic (I), subdominant (IV), and dominant (V).
Dynamics and Instrumentation
Dynamic markings such as forte (loud) and piano (soft) are widely used.
This led to the replacement of the hapisocord with the piano.
Form
Music was organized into precise, well-balanced, and clear sections.
The ABA structure (ternary form) of music was commonly used.
Improvisation
Basso continuo had been reduced during this period.
The Alberti Bass, a broken chord figure named after Domenico Alberti
Sonato
Is a large instrumental composition made up from several movements or sections
sonata-allegro or sonata form
First movement or section of a sonata is written in a form called ______.
Exposition
Where the basic theme is presented in the tonic key.
Development
where the main theme is developed in different ways.
Recapitulation
Where the themes in the exposition are restated in the tonic key but not exactly the same.
Ternary
ABA structure
Rounded binary
AABA structure
Theme and variation
Where the theme is repeated over and over and is changed each time.
Third movement (sonata)
Minuet and trio or simply Minuet
or
Scherzo (Italian for โjokeโ), which is more humorous and playful
Fourth movement (sonata)
called โfinaleโ
rondo structure (ABACA)
Second movement (sonata)
characterized as having a slow tempo, presented as subdominant or dominant key and having a more melodic quality than the other movements or sections.