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8/10/2019 Musical Style Chart 1
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Style Comparison: Medieval - Renaissance - Baroque Classical
Period Harmony/Tonality Melody Rhythm Timbre/Dynamics Texture Form
Medieval
(450-1450)
Hildegard
Leonin Perotin
Machaut
Modal
No sense of
harmony until
organum 10th 4ths!5ths "rds are
dissonant
on#unct
Pi$otal!%a$e
&lo%ing
Limited range
Melismatic
'miguous! hythmic
Modes Hoc*et +sorhythm
No indication
No s,ecific
instrumental
music
Mono,honic
Poly,honic
(although
homorhythmic)
e.t dri$en
/tro,hic
(mass ,lainchant organum
canso motet)
Renaissance
(1450-100)
2es Pre3
Palestrina
Modal
arefully regulated
dissonances
"rds consonance
on#unct and
relati$ely
unarticulated
one ,ainting
ocally deri$ed
/mooth regular
flo%
Meter generally
unstressed
Primarily $ocal
Homogeneous
instrumental
families
2ynamics not
indicated
Poly,honic
imitati$e
2etermined y te.t
antus firmus
(mass motet madrigal
Lute song)
Baroque(100-1650)
Monte$erdi
i$aldi
78 /8 9ach
Handel
&unctional harmony
&ast to moderate
harmonic rhythm
/hort-range tonal
goals
Much se:uencing
(circle of 5ths)
ich harmonic
$ocaulary (lots of
6th chords)
/,inning out of
melodies
Moti$ically deri$ed
Much
ornamentation
Much dis#unct
motion ased on
triad
/ingle thematic
(moti$ic) idea ,er
ontinuous motion
%ith a rigid eat ormore irregularrecitati$e-li*emotion
learly articulated
meter
No distinction
et%eeneats 1 ; "
Hemiola at
cadences
imral contrast
(concerto ,rinci,le)
9asso continuo
normal
erraced dynamics
Harmonic
counter,oint
/o,rano-ass
,olarity
Melody ;
accom,animent
&amiliar style
+nstrumental and
$ocal forms
9inary and ternary
forms
(o,era oratoriosuite concert