music

• Classical music refers to the music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, with composers like Mozart, Beethoven, and Bach.
• Baroque began in the seventeenth century and lasted until the eighteenth century
• The Baroque period is characterized by complex melodies, intricate harmonies, and elaborate instrumental accompaniments.
• classicism began in the eighteenth century and lasted until the nineteenth
• the classical period was marked by clearer forms, simpler textures, and more balanced structures than those found in baroque music.
• Romantic music emphasized emotion over logic and often used unconventional tonalities and harmonies.
• the renaissance began in the fifteenth century and lasted until the sixteenth
• Renaissance music was characterized by polyphonic compositions that featured multiple independent voices or parts.
• Impressionism existed at the transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth. first in France. the name for this period comes from the word impressio which means impression
• C. debussy and M. ravel and Slovenian musician Anton Lajovic worked in impressionism
• the musical characteristics of impressionism are freer music, colorful harmony, loosening of the strict rhythmic beat and a different sound
• Claude Debussy was a French writer, pioneer and greatest exponent of the Impressionist style. he composed orchestral compositions, piano works and chamber works
• maurice ravel the French composer incorporated features of jazz and Spanish music into his compositions. he mainly wrote dance music
• Music magazines for impressionism in Slovenia were: Cerkveni glasbenik, Novi akordi :important musical institutions: Akademija za glasbo, Slovenska filharmonija, Ljubljanska opera
• bolero: a Spanish dance in simple triple time.
• expressionism music is a style of music that is characterized by the use of dissonance, chromaticism, and unconventional rhythms
• a sound cluster is several tones played at once
• Expressionist composers were: Arnold Schonberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern and Marij Kogoj who is Slovenian