what is the principal difference between baroque and classical melodies?
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Terms in this set (40) What is the principle difference between Baroque and Classical melodies? Baroque composers crafted melodies that ran on with little or no pause, while Classical composers favored melodies in short balanced phrases.
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['Music based on modes.', 'Richer texture in four or more parts.', 'Blending rather than contrasting strands in the musical texture.', 'Harmony with a greater concern with the flow and progression of chords.']
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The most fundamental difference is that a normal harp has strings which enter directly into the hollow body of the entire instrument. On the other hand, a lyre has it strings passing over a bridge which in return transmit the vibrations of the strings to the instrument body.
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Trk 12. The physical differences between modern and baroque violins mean that the baroque violin is softer. The fact that the neck is angled back on the modern instrument means that the tension of the strings can be much higher without breaking the neck.
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But the composers of the Romantic era did not reject Classical music. In fact, they were consciously emulating the composers they considered to be the great classicists: Haydn, Mozart, and particularly Beethoven. ... The main difference between Classical and Romantic music came from attitudes towards these “rules”.
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The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1730 and 1820. The Classical period falls between the Baroque and the Romantic periods. Classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music and is less complex.
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Rococo and Baroque Styles: How to Tell the Difference In France, Baroque and Rococo were adjacent stylistic periods that ensconced two entirely distinct sensibilities; one (Baroque) was heavy-handed and provocative, while the other (Rococo) expressed lightness and playfulness with elaborate decoration.
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Medieval music was mostly plainchant; first monophonic then developed into polyphonic. Renaissance music was largely buoyant melodies. Medieval music was mostly only vocal while renaissance music was of both instrumental and vocal; flutes, harps, violins were some of the instruments used.
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Baroque: counterpoint - listen for one part entering after another, a bit like a round or canon. Ornamented melody line (trills and twiddles). Strong bass line, often a bit like a second melody. Romantic: pieces feel bigger, both in terms of notes used and bigger dynamic ranges.
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The basic classical techniques for singing opera and not-opera are largely the same, except that in operatic singing there is usually a greater emphasis on largesse and power in the voice, while in concert singing there is more room for delicate lyricism and nuance.
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Orchestra play all type of music including classical. Symphony is the common classical that is played by orchestra while Opera is a theatrical work that combines drama, song and sometimes dance. In opera, orchestra plays the music and the vocalist sings and act on the stage.
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Composers in the Classical period sought to simplify music and create clearly audible musical lines; whereas, composers from the Baroque period were interested in creating complex and highly ornamented musical lines.
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In at least one respect, classical music is superior to popular music. ... The greater potential for expressiveness in classical music is due, in large part, to it greater harmonic resources. The harmonies in classical music are more likely to be functional, more contrary motion is employed, and modulation is more common.
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In music history terms, film music isn't classical music. Technically speaking, Bach isn't classical, it's baroque. Beethoven and Mozart would be considered classical, but Debussy would be Impressionist, Schoenberg would be Modern and so on.
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Stringed instruments in the Baroque orchestra had strings made of animal gut (strips made into strings out of an animal's intestines), whereas modern stringed instruments use string made of more sturdy material such as nylon, sometimes metal, and so forth. The sound of a string section is very different.
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The Baroque style is characterized by exaggerated motion and clear detail used to produce drama, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music. Baroque iconography was direct, obvious, and dramatic, intending to appeal above all to the senses and the emotions.
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The Main Difference Is the Mechanism that Produces the Sound The main difference between a piano (a standard acoustic piano) and a digital piano is the mechanism that produces the sound. ... In contrast, the digital piano has no strings. Each key is a switch to produce a specific sound, so to speak.