Music Term 2Music Term 2 Home-schooling Package 2020 Step 1: Style Periods: • Memorise each style period and their dates • Learn the 5 characteristics of each of the four style

Music Term 2

Home-schooling

Package 2020

Step 1: Style Periods:

• Memorise each style period and their dates

• Learn the 5 characteristics of each of the four style periods

• You must know 2 composers per style period

Step 2: Composers:

• Listen to the Famous Pieces summarised on the last page.

• Learn each composers details (Name, Surname, Dates, Instruments and facts)

• Complete the two worksheets.

Stay safe girls & missing our fun Friday classes!

Hopefully see you soon, ok!

Baroque

Period 1600 - 1750

• Ornamental

• Extravagant

• Harpsichord and Organ

• Improvised

• Dance Music

• Vivaldi

• Handel

• Bach

Classic

Period 1750 - 1825

• Simple and natural

• Strict rules

• Symphony

• Forte-piano

• Traditional

• Haydn

• Mozart

• Beethoven

Romantic

Period 1825 - 1900

• Programmatic Music

• Emotional and adventurous

• Tempo rubato

• Interest in: Foreign, super-

natural and exotic

• New Sounds

• Debussy

• Dvorak

• Chopin

• Mendelssohn

• Tchaikovsky

Modern

Period 1900 - present

• Experimental

• Mix of cultures

• Electronic music

• Technology and science

• All sound = music

(even NO sound is music)

• Ravel

• Bartok

• Joplin

Style Periods Even though, we all think of ‘classical’ music as really old music, written by really old guys, a really really long time ago, this

cannot be further from the truth! Everything we hear in music these days, originally came from these ‘old guys’ in the old

days from ‘old music’… So check out how music developed!

He was born in Germany

Baroque Period

Johann Sebastian

Bach

1685 - 1750

Some of his

Famous

Pieces:

1. Art of Fugue

2. Tocatta and Fugue

3. Brandonberg Concertos

4. Well tempered Clavier

DID YOU KNOW A COMPOSER is a person who

writes a music piece and that is

his professional occupation . He

shows us on the notation how to

play it (loud, soft, fast or slow)

He wrote

1128

compositions (music pieces)

in total!

He played

the

FollowinG

instruments:

Organ and

Harpsichord

The most wel l -known composer of a l l t imes!

1770 - 1827 CLASSICAL Period

Ludwig von

Beethoven

Some of his

Famous

Pieces:

1. Fur Elise

2. Symphony Nr 5

3. Moonlight Sonata

4. Egmont Overture

5. Symphony Nr 9

DID YOU KNOW Beethoven found at in his 20s that he

was loosing his hearing and by the time

Symphony Nr9 was performed he was

completely deaf—he never heard what it

sounded like!

He wrote

772

compositions (music pieces)

in total!

He l ived in Austr ia and Germany

He played

the

FollowinG

instruments:

Piano, Violin

and Viola

Symphony Nr 5 has a 4-note motive that sounds like some-

one knocking—that is called “fate knocking at the door”. He

composed this symphony when he found out he was going

deaf and he was very sad and upset at this stage.

Symphony Nr.9 was the first symphony that had vocal parts

(choir) - Usually a symphony was for orchestra only.

FU

N F

AC

TS

Pyotr Ilyich

Tcha ikovsky

1840 - 1893

Some of his

Famous

Pieces:

1. Swan Lake

2. The Nutcracker

3. 1812 Overture

4. Symphony Nr. 6

ROMANTIC Period

FUN FACT Real canons,

church bells

and fireworks

are often used

when

performing the

1812 Overture

He

played the

Following

instrument:

Piano

H e w a s a R u s s i a n C o m p o s e r

k n o w n f o r

c o m p o s i n g B a l l e t

M u s i c .

He wrote

169

compositions (music pieces)

in total!

Symphony Nr 6

was also known as

Symphony

Pathetique

1875 - 1937 Modern Period

Maurice

Ravel

He l ived in France

Some of his

Famous

Pieces:

1. Bolero

2. La Valse

3. Piano Concerto for the

left hand

4. Daphnis et Chloe

He wrote

85

compositions (music pieces)

in total!

He played

the

FollowinG

instruments:

Piano

Modern music This period includes a wide variety of

music genres which includes:

Pop, Rock, Electro, County, Tech-

no, Blues, Dubstep and electronic

to name a few.

There are lots more!

DETECTIVE CLUE WHO AM I?

1 I am a Russian composer

2 I composed during the Classical Period

3 I composed the Egmont Overture

4 I was born in 1685

5 I wrote over a thousand compositions.

6 I played the Violin and Viola

7 I speak French

8 I composed only 85 works

9 I passed away in 1893

10 I am known as the most well known composer

of all times!

11 I could play the organ

12 I composed the 1812 Overture

13 I composed during the Modern period

14 We could only play the Piano

15 I wrote the least compositions of all the

composers in this list!

BEETHOVEN RAVEL TCHAIKOVSKY BACH

Which

Super

composer

am i?

After learning all those

impressive facts about

our chosen four

composers, read the

clue on the left and

fill in our super

composer’s name

on the right!

Composers Which style period did these guys live in and how old were they when they died?

Purcell (1659-1695) Chopin (1810-1849) Haydn (1732-1809) Copland (1900-1990)

Brahms (1833-1897) Handel (1685-1759) Dvorak (1841-1904) Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Schumann (1810-1856) Scarlatti (1685-1757) Joplin (1868-1917) Liszt (1811-1886)

Modern 1900 - now

Classical 1750 - 1819

Romantic 1820 - 1900

Your choices are:

Baroque 1600 - 1749

Listening

list

Did you listen to the following songs?

There will be an assessment when we are back at school on this part of the work - where I play you these

pieces and you will have to select, from the list provided, what piece I played!

G O OD LUCK … AND HAPPY L ISTEN ING

(definitely a different playlist from what you have been listening to during the Lock Down! )

Bach Beethoven

1. Swan Lake

2. The Nutcracker

3. 1812 Overture

4. Symphony Nr. 6

1. Bolero

2. La Valse

3. Piano Concerto for the left hand

4. Daphnis et Chloe

1. Art of Fugue

2. Tocatta and Fugue

3. Brandonberg Concertos

4. Well tempered Clavier

Tchaikovsky Ravel

1. Fur Elise

2. Symphony Nr 5

3. Moonlight Sonata

4. Egmont Overture

5. Symphony Nr 9