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Mozart
- -Already had the music in his mind
- -No corrections
- -Wrote his first symphony when he was 8
- -150 things by the time he was 17
- -Died at 36
- -Sonata Form
- -Classical
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Beethoven
- -Hearing loss
- -Ode to Joy he made when he was completely deaf
- -Not quite classical
- -Sonata Form
- -Classical
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Hayden
- -Wrote over 100 symphonies
- -String quartets
- -Classical
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What system of measurement came from the French Revolution?
-The Metric System
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What was King Louis XIV's role in the French Revolution and what happened to him as a result?
- -Tried to fix the overspending done by his ancestors
- -A national assembly came about called "The Oath of the Tennis Courts" which decided to make a new government
- -He lots the throne
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Issac Newton
- Gravity and calculus
- -classical
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John Locke
- Declaration of the rights of man
- -classical
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The Glorious Revolution
A king was fired, but not beheaded
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What happened in 1215?
-The Parliament gets even more power and the House of Commons was set up
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Social Contract Theory
Protection on one side and freedom on the other
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Who is Napoleon?
- Became emperor of France because they didn't want a king and wanted to bring back Greek and Roman terms
- -Classical
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Who is Houdem?
A famous Neoclassical sculpture
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What happens in classical music?
- -Piano replaces the harpsichord and organ
- -Sonata form, theme and variations, minuet, trio, rondo
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What is really important in neoclassical music?
Cadence
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What is the difference between classicism and romanticism?
Classicism brought back the old ways of Greek and Roman thinking while romanticism is about deeply felt emotion
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James Watt
- -Used a rotary system to make finding foal more efficient
- -You no longer had to mine near rivers
- -Romanticism
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Richard Trevithick
- Created the train
- -Romanticism
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What was romanticism all about?
- -Supernatural
- -Nationalism
- -Nostalgia
- -Nature
- -Love
- -Exotic/interest in ole eras
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How did authors implement supernatural in the romantic era?
- -Charles Dickson "A Christmas Carol"
- -Victor Hugo "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"
- -Bram Stoke "Dracula"
- -Mary Shelley "Frankenstein"
- -Brother Grimm tales
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What type of music did the romantic era like?
-Program
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Schubert
- -Young composer
- -Art song
- -600 songs
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Mendelssohn
- -Wedding March
- -nostalgia craze
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Who is playing/singing in Art Song and what is it like?
- -Solo singer or solo piano
- -Strophic (repeating like hymns) or through-composed
- -They are like poems set to music
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Who were in the Paris Connection?
- -Chopin
- -Berlioz
- -Paganini
- -Liszt
- -Tchaikovsky
- -Wagner
- -Romanticism
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Chopin
- -Piano
- -"George Sand"
- -Poland
- -Wanted to be buried in France his heart cut out and buried in Poland
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Berlioz
- -Couldn't play instrument
- -Symphonie Fantastiqu
- -he writes this girl love letters and she doesn't respond and that's how he wrote that sympthony
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Paganini
- -Violinist
- -Showmanship
- -Would cut his strings and transpose on the spot
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Liszt
- -Expert pianist
- -Concert performance
- -Rock star
- -Women would faint
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Tchaikovsky
- -Adult prodigy
- -The Nutcracker
- -His own worst critic
- -1812 Overture
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Wagner
- -Music drama (opera)
- -Father of film music
- -Cartoon music
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What was the result of the Franco-Prussian War?
-France was now focused on culture
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What was realism all about?
- -It looks real
- -Heroic Peasant
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Who were two artists during the impressionist era?
- -Honore Daumier
- -Thomas Eakins
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How did the camera change art?
- -Impressionism came about to try to compete with the camera
- -No longer trying to look real, but doing something a camera can't do
- -They break up lines and light now
- -Don't focus on detail
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Claude Monay
- -Tried to paint really fast to get broken lines and light effect (gets done in one sitting)
- -Expert at showing the color of water
- -Valued CAPTURING THE MOMENT
- -Impression Sunrise
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Camille Pissarro
- -Impressionist painter
- -Ordinary things and not as heroic
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Renoir
- -Loved painting people
- -Can make fantastic color skin tone
- -No longer doll and plump people
- -The Loge
- -Didn't follow normal rules of painting (triangular in center ect.)
- -Shows ordinary life
- -Has distracting backgrounds
- -Famous for "Cakemill" or Le Moulin de la Galette painting
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Cassatt
- -An American who moved to Paris
- -One of the few famous women painters
- -"The Bath"
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Edgar Degas
- -Painted ballet
- -He was blind
- -Started to use pastel because it dried slower since he was blind
- -Impressionism
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What was a popular medium in the impressionist era?
-Bronze
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Auguste Rodin
- -Asked to create a big set of doors called "Gate of hell" based off of Gherberti's "Gates of Paradise"
- -Created "The Thinker" based from his door work
- -Not as detailed
- -Impressionist
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Claude Debussy
- -Whole Tone Scale
- -Clair de Lune
- -Suggestion, not a declaration
- -No defined theme
- -"Prelude to Afternoon of a Faun"
- -No pulsing rhythm, more flowy
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August Bartholdi
- -Statue of Liberty
- -Sent over in pieces
- -Prefabrication (making something somewhere else and bringing it to a new place)
- -Two pennies thick
- -Asked Gustave Eiffel for help
- -Modernist
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Gustave Eiffel
- -Engineer
- -Made bridges
- -Created Eiffel Tower
- -Moderist
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Vincent van Gogh
- -Moderist
- -Impast means to apply a lot of paint which he did
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What is expressionism?
- -Distortion of reality
- -Munch created "The Scream"
- -Not to be photo realism
- -Brings about emotion
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What came about due to World War I?
- -Picasso used cubism
- -Shapes opened up
- -Picasso was a child prodigy
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Modernism in music
- -Dissonance, atonality
- -Rhythmic complexity, bitonality
- -Non western influences
- -Primitive :old is new
- -Trying to abandon meter and scale
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Segei Prokofiev
-Modern composer wrote a version of Romeo and Juliet
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Igor Stavinsky
- -Modern composer
- -Rite of Spring
- -Contacted by Serge Diaghilev
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Serge Diaghilev
Modern director
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Valsav Nijinksky
Modern choreographer
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Modern dancers
- -Isadora Duncan
- -Martha Graham
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