IB HL Music: Important Musical Composition Styles

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

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