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Make an outline for each class, and take attendance to learn student’s
names, and play for them after the instroduction of class
Go to the place a week before, let them know what you’re doing and
familiarizer with the room
Introduction
Attendance
Personal introduction
Go over syllabus
Harmony: The simultaneous sounding of one or more notes that support and
enhance melody.
Chords
Chord Progression
Major/minor
Cadence
Consonance/Dissonance
Class 5 12/21/2015 11:01:00 AM
Classical Period
Opera
Rise of Opera Buffa or Comic Opera
It spoke of everyday events
Created for the new middle-class audience
It criticized the aristocrats (Le Nozze di Figaro-Mozart)
Melody
Catchy and simple melodies
Question-answer melodies
Symmetrical melodies
Mozart’s piano concerto in C major
Harmony:
Most music was Homophonic
Basso continuo disappeared
Simpler harmonies
More fluid harmonic rhythm
Alberti Bass replaced Basso Continuo
Alberti gived the illusion of harmonic movement
Rhythm
Much more flexible than in baroque music
Baroque had a steady rhythm
Classical music would have a fast section followed by a slow one
Stretch of the tempo
Texture
Composers focused more in charming melodies than advanced
counterpoint
Less polyphonic lines
Homophonic