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    The document describes the characteristics of classical style and period music. It notes that the texture involves a melody with chordal accompaniment, usually in a two-part format. The articulation uses a mixture of legato and staccato styles. The structure employs balanced and regular four-bar phrases.

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    The document describes the characteristics of classical style and period music. It notes that the texture involves a melody with chordal accompaniment, usually in a two-part format. The articulation uses a mixture of legato and staccato styles. The structure employs balanced and regular four-bar phrases.

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    The document describes the characteristics of classical style and period music. It notes that the texture involves a melody with chordal accompaniment, usually in a two-part format. The articulation uses a mixture of legato and staccato styles. The structure employs balanced and regular four-bar phrases.

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    STYLE AND PERIOD - CLASSICAL

    TEXTURE Melody with chordal accompaniment. Mostly two-part, melody with accompaniment.

    ARTICULATION Mixture of legato and staccato in both hands.

    STRUCTURE Balanced/ regular four bar phrases.

    CHARACTER Balanced phrases, lilting rhythms in compound (9/8, 12/8) time, mainly quiet dynamic, major key; gentle, graceful. Lively tempo, balanced phrases with regular cadences, major key, clear and detailed articulation, scalic runs; elegant, light.

    STYLE AND PERIOD Melody-dominated texture, repetition of ideas, balanced phrases (which are clearly punctuated with cadences), simple harmony, melodic decoration/ turns. Clear-cut, generally balanced phrase lengths with regular cadences, melody and accompaniment with use of arpeggiated accompaniment figures, use of cresc. and dim., light piano sonority with a moderate pitch range, reliance on primary chords

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