MUSIC 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Vehicle Identification Number, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Music Theory
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1683-1764 one of the most important french composers of the baroque known for his opera and keyboard music. Trag die en musique (was a distinct french genre) ^^ any composer that was bringing a new opera from germany or something had to rewrite it so it had something to do with dance. Style of his operas complex elegant beautiful melodies ornamented. Lots of decoration of the musical line; composers can ornament a line by decorating it adding more notes. French swing their notes when they"re playing their instruments. You just know to play it that way even if it wasn"t indicated) instrumental music dance! 1735 opera-bullet: independent but loosely connected plots (3 or-4 sections that are loosing connected some how by theme or some sort of plot device) 1725, french settlers sent a native america chief to paris, to pledge allegiance the 15th: turkey, 2. peru.
