CM 9 Musical Period Characterizations
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 polyphonic texture | baroque |
| use of ornamentation | baroque |
| improvisation (cadenzas) | baroque |
| dance suite | baroque |
| terraced dynamics | baroque |
| figured bass | baroque |
| homophonic texture | classical |
| cadence points usually obvious | classical |
| alberti bass | classical |
| sonata/sonatina forms developed | classical |
| programme music | romantic |
| harmonies more complicated | romantic |
| lyric melodies | romantic |
| rhythms more complicated | romantic |
| unclear tonalities, non-metric rhythms, flowy, musically blurred images | impressionism |
| whole tone scales, pentatonic, parallel chords, augmented triads, ostinato figures | impressionism |
| major and minor tonalities avoided | contemporary |
| quartal harmony (harmony made up of 4ths) | contemporary |
| bitonality, polytonality, atonality | contemporary |
| irregular and changing meteres | contemporary |
| polyphonic texture | contemporary |
| neo-classical writing | contemporary |
| serial or 12-tone music (with prime, inversion, retrograde, retrograde inversion) | contemporary |
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