PSYC 2000 Lecture : Other Theories Of Personality NOTES
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Classical: reason, rules and forms, the monument of ancient rome and greece. Romantic: emotionalism, passionate self-expression, wonders of nature. Longing and despair, not happiness and fulfillment: music expresses the in articulate depth of emotion. Role of composer: no longer servants to aristocracy, now a prophet. Inspires the audience: music normally uplifting and beautiful, music no longer entertainment but art, serious tone in the concert hall. Melody: broad sweeping themes, lyrical expressive, built to a grandiose climax, phase, longer, rhythmically flexible. Harmony: colorful harmony contributes to emotional intensity, chromatic notes, adds color, make distinct modulations easier, very different key structures, a more striking sound, dissonance creates greater anguish and rive to resolution, bold harmonic shifts, prolonged dissonance. Rhythm: flexible and languid, meter can be obscure, rubato. Italian for ribbed: exaggerated the rhythmic flow, gives performers more artistic freedom. Form: no new forms, extended existed forms (sonata allegro form, character pieces, brief binary and ternary form, essence of single mood, whimsical titles.
