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IB HL Music: Important Musical Composition Styles
- Overtures
- French
- SF (Binary)
- Slow: homophonic, pompous, dotted rhythms
- Fast: fugal section
- Italian
- FSF
- Often a prominent trumpet part
- Concerto
- Solo Concerto
- Solo instrument + accompanying instrumental group
- Allegro-Adagio-Allegro (FSF)
- Vivaldi
- Concerto Grosso
- Concertino (small group of instruments)
- ripieno (larger group of instruments)
- Arcangelo Corelli
- Often used ritornello form
- Late Baroque Concerto
- Bach: Brandenburg Concerto
- Baroque Suite
- Binary Form or Ternary Form
- allemande
- courante
- sarabande
- gigue
- jig in a lively 6/8 or 6/4
- stately dance in triple meter
- Triple meter, moderate tempo
- quadruple meter, moderate tempo
- minuet, gavotte, bourree, passepied, hornpipe between sarabande and gigue
- Often opened with an overture
- Either binary or ternary for each piece
- Sonatas
- Sonata da camera (chamber sonata)
- Group of stylised dances
- Sonata da chiesa (church sonata)
- More serious in tone + more contrapuntal
- SFSF
- 1-6/8 instruments
- Trio Sonata
- two violins, cellist/bassoonist + harpsichordist
- Symphony
- 1st Movement
- Sonata Allegro Form
- Fast tempo
- 2nd Movement
- Theme and Variations or ABA form (ternary)
- Slow tempo
- 3rd Movement
- Minuet in Trio or Scherzo in Trio
- Medium-Fast tempo
- 4th Movement
- Rondo or Sonata Rondo Form
- Fast
- Sonata Form
- Exposition
- First theme in tonic
- Bridge (Dominant or Relative minor)
- Second theme in bridge key
- Closing theme with cadence in contrasting key
- Often exposition repeated for emphasis
- Development
- Modulation to different keys
- Transitions back to tonic at end
- Recapitulation
- First theme in tonic
- Bridge (usually tonic)
- Second theme in tonic
- Closing theme in tonic
- Coda in tonic
- Cantatas
- Secular
- Based on poetry
- Barbara Strozzi
- Sacred
- Mostly written by J.S. Bach for Lutheran services
- Annual cycle = 60 cantatas
- Four or five cycles, but only 200 cantatas survive
- Unified by chorale (hymn tune) sung in four-part harmony