Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Thomas Tallis (1510-1585)

William Byrd (1543-1623)

-Arnold Schoenberg

-Igor Stravinsky

-Charles Ives

-He was a Professor of Composition in Berlin and later Los Angeles. He was a gifted composer, teacher and painter.

-Schoenberg’s first compositions were Romantic in style eg ‘Transfigured Night’. His style of composition later changed.

-His music became increasingly dissonant and chromatic in the style of Expressionism.

-The sense of key became less and less obvious eventually resulting in atonality.

-Audiences and critics found Schoenberg’s atonal music difficult to understand. There was so much unrest at one concert that the police were called.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdnlHyes074

-In Classical music, there is a flexibility of rhythm. 

-Classical music is basically homophonic.

-Pieces shift smoothly or suddenly from one texture to another

 -There was a wide range of emotion in Renaissance music,

-Usually expressed in a moderate, balanced way, with 

no extreme contrasts of dynamics, tone colour, or rhythm.

-The music was mild and relaxed due to stable and consonant

chords: triads favoured over dissonances.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tim_3ugy28

2) Franz Liszt

3) Frederic Chopin

Voice

* The dynamics change suddenly, so each bit is either loud or soft.- there are no gradual changes in volume so no crescendos or diminuendos.

* The melodies are built up from short musical ideas called motifs or motives. - repetition

* Harmonies - chords are simple triads.

*The texure of the piece is often polyphonic

-Most of his work was programme music and music for ballets

Programme music is instrumental and doesn't have words. All imagery comes from the music.

Symphonic poems (also called tone poems) are examples of programme music. They're single movement works that tells stories like myths and fairytales.

-Broken Consort

-Whole Consort

* Flute

* Recorder

* Oboe

* Bassoon

* Organ

* Strings

- Swan Lake

- The Nutcracker

- Sleeping Beauty

After these became a success, people began to focus more on the music and less on the choreography.