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Mind Map 6 (Chapter 21 (Early Opera (Large scale drama which is sung,…

- - - - Combined vocal and instrumental music with poetry and dance
      - Popular among aristocracy
    - - Plays set to music could be passed off as a concert
      - Stage plays forbidden because thought to be of the devil
    - - Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
        
        Wrote masques and operas
        
        Assimilated Italian and French styles
        
        Various English court posts
      - First performed at a London's girl school
      - Based on part of Virgil's Aeneid
      - has a joyous tone, a very lively tempo and seems to be in the major key. Has a nice touch of voices combined with instruments or alone. String orchestra goes very well with the soloist and chorus.
- - - - Program symphony based on his life
      - Has 5 movements
      - Bold and intense
      - Has a very in your face type of feeling, a bold piece which is loud and hectic. Is about a dream where he believes he is to be killed by a guillotine. Reflects in the song with the almost peaceful acceptance of the imminent death which is approaching, by having a quite tone towards end of movement.
- - - - Written in 2000
      - Personal grief over death of brother
      - Program music
      - Very emotional piece of music, personally connected due to the loss of a best friend during first year of college. Is hectic at times, to almost show what its like to go through grief, with no real grasp of control or sanity. Piece did not seem to have a certain key, would jump around quite a bit.
- - - - Orchestra included more instruments - bassoon and basset horn
      - Voices and instrument arrangement have dramatic effect
      - Played at JFK's funeral and 9/11 commemorations
    - - On deathbed working on funeral mass - requiem
        
        His last large-scale composition
        
        Died before completing, composed by student, Sussmayr
        
        requiem - Mass for the dead
      - Died 1791, 35
    - - Day of Wrath for the Funeral Mass
      - Emphasizes power of divine intervention
      - Mozart did finish
      - Choral opening then solo verse and choral finish
      - Accented in duple meter
      - Homophonic but an odd major and minor combination that is a little unpleasant
- - - - Pianists in salons and concert halls
      - Art song (melodie) seperate from German lied
      - Grand orchestral music and operas
      - Sacred music
    - - French
      - Trained to be a church musician in Paris
      - Influential music critic
      - Style is restrained
      - Later Director of Paris Conservatory
      - Faure's Requiem, Libera Me
        
        1888 - 1st performed for funeral of an architect
        
        Nonstandard form
        
        Sometimes celestial, sometimes funeral
        
        Seems to be played in a minor key, is also homophonic. Is a beautiful piece even though i can not understand much of it. The strings and harp are a personal favorite just being so pleasing to the ear.