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AOS1 - Classical - Coggle Diagram
AOS1 - Classical
Orchestra
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The cello/bass are replaced by horns with trumpets, oboes and bassoons, adding harmonies
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Brass instruments were limited to the amount of notes they could produce, which is called the harmonic series
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Other notes were available for horn players by 'stopping' the sounding length of the instrument by putting the hand in the bell
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Features of music
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Clear use of cadences (perfect, plagal, imperfect, interrupted)
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Diatonic harmony and use of primary chords (I, IV, V)
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Key features
Functional harmony, not many use of dissonances, large use of tonic and dominant
Rhythm - Scotch snap, this is the opposite of a dotted rhythm as the shorter note comes first
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Orchestral Music of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven
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Transposing instruments
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Therefore a B flat on a B flat instrument sounds like a C, an E flat onan E flat instrument sounds like a C, etc.
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All instruments are in C except Trumpet, Clarinet and French horn
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Key composers
Mozart
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He moved to Vienna in 1781, and this is where his most famous works were composed
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Beethoven
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Born in Bonn, Germany but moved to Vienna at the age of 21
In 1811 he stopped publicly performing and conducting but continued to compose some of his most celebrated works
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He used more complicated harmonies, daring modulations and contrapuntal texture
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