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BACKGROUND RESEARCH

CREDO REFERENCE
DEFINE TERMS: chansons, rondeau, theme and variation, chaconne, and passacaglia.

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CHACONNE
chaconne (shäkôn´) and passacaglia (pä´´sәkäl´yә), two closely related musical forms popular during the baroque period. Both are in triple meter time and employ a characteristic recurring harmonic pattern or actual bass line of four or eight bars. J. S. Bach's Chaconne from the D Minor Violin Suite and his Passacaglia in C Minor for organ are the most famous examples of these forms. (From CREDO Reference)
CHANSON
RONDEAU
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PASSACAGLIA
noun (passacaglias) music
1. a slow stately old Spanish dance in triple time.
2. the music for this dance introduced into keyboard music in the 17c, and based on a set of uninterrupted variations on a continuously repeated bass line or harmonic progression. See also chaconne.
[17c: Italian, probably from Spanish pasacalles street song.] (From CREDO Reference)
SONATA MOZART
THEME AND VARIATION

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Piano Sonata No. 6 in D Major, K. 284
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MEDIEVAL FRENCH RONDEAU IN CHANSONS

ARTICLES FROM JSTOR ON RONDEAU IN CHANSONS
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ARTICLES ON MOZART'S SONATA IN D MAJOR, NO. 6, K284

Reference Tools to begin exploring

Oxford Music Online. Includes Oxford Dictionary of Music, Grove Music Online and Oxford Companion to Music, with more than 8,000 articles on composers, performers, conductors, instruments and notation, forms and genres, and individual works.

ASSIGNMENT: ANALYSIS OF MOZART SONATA No. 6 K. 284.

Analyze 3 movements of the Sonata No. 6 K.284 by Mozart. Movements are written in Sonata Form, Rondo Form, and Theme and Variations. Provide information on the history of these forms, i.e., Medieval French rondeau in chansons and its development in 18th and 19th century music. Provide examples of pieces and major exponents, and its influence in 20th century composers. Same for Theme and Variations, for which the Baroque chaconne and passacaglia are predecessors.

Mozart and the sonata form. A companion book to any edition of Mozart's piano sonatas, including an analysis of the form of each movement, with notes upon treatment & tonality.

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