it continued to remain popular throughout the romantic period. String quartets continued as a form of home entertainment but it also became vastly more popular in concerts by professional groups. The genre started getting treated as seriously as symphonies with composers using it as a vessel for pushing music to the boundaries of the time. Through
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Pieces 4. Composers and their works/pieces: Weber – Der FreischÜtz Rossini – William Tell Wagner – The flying Dutchman Verdi – Aida Schubert – Die schÖne MÜllerin Chopin – Four Ballads and other piano music Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake and Symphony no.6 5. Other details: Romanticism in art‚ literature and music moved away from Classicism by allowing emotional content to dominate form. Classical (1750 – 1810) * Melody: * Simple * Sometimes decorated with ornaments
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Beethoven met Joseph Haydn and began taking lessons from him. In order to receive the lessons‚ Beethoven moved to Vienna where Haydn currently lived. Haydn directed Beethoven for classes to Johann Albrechtsberger. During this time‚ Beethoven`s undeniable talent to play the piano was what made him shine. In Vienna‚ Beethoven wrote his famous works: “Moonlight Sonata and the Pathétique sonata” (Ludwig van Beethoven
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1. Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Haydn was a remarkable composer‚ epitomizing the meaning of classical period composition‚ and though he wasn’t as flashy as the younger Mozart‚ his music always stayed true to form. Haydn‚ unlike most composers‚ had a "reliable and steady" job composing‚ directing‚ teaching‚ performing‚ and managing musicians from the royal Esterhazy family. During this time‚ Haydn composed many pieces of music for the courtly orchestra to perform. With a staggering body of work
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1. Which weighs more? The modern piano 2. Which instrument responds more rapidly to the player’s touch? The 18th-c. piano 3. An extended range of available notes (seven-and-a-quarter octaves‚ instead of just five) is a feature of the modern piano 4. If the relationship between two (or more) musical tones is simple and stable‚ we call the combination consonant 5. When composers combine tones successively‚ we call the resulting series a melody 6. By the late 18th century‚ the
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generations‚ like fashions in musical tastes. Lets first start with the classical music‚ Classical is an era; it is from about 1730 to just after 1800. A few people who contributed to the music in the Classical era are: Ludwig van Beethoven‚ Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The Classical period focused on the opposite types of sounds- music during that period was orderly‚ uncluttered‚ well planned and precise. Music was expected to be technically pleasing and grounded in certain traditions
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colours through the use of beautiful melodic and harmonic lines. Most string quartets included two allegro movements in sonata-allegro form‚ an andante and a dance movement. The Symphony: The symphony had its roots in opera overtures. It was the first monumental form written exclusively for instrumentalists. In their symphonies‚ usually longer‚
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The orchestra as we know it now did not exist before the 17th century. At the start of this century the orchestra was just beginning and developing on from the renaissance era where orchestras had only just began to be used rarely and only in tiny groups‚ with a small range of instruments. The main factors influencing this development include: instrumental technology‚ different classes of the public‚ playing techniques‚ economics‚ the role of music directors and changes in musical tastes. The
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Period: Block of time connected with music and chord progressions leading to a PAC; usually an antecedent phrase (ending with an HAC) and consequent phrase (ending with a PAC) once you get to the end of a period‚ the PAC offers a sense of completion Periodicity: Difference between Baroque and Classical music (In Baroque compositions‚ the melody always continues and in Classical compositions‚ the melody will be a set number of measures and will have individual phrases following Empfindsam Style:
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of all time. Ludwig‚ at a very young age‚ began his career as a marvelous piano player and composer of piano music. Beethoven continued his work expanding to string quartets and other kinds of chamber music‚ songs‚ two masses‚ an opera‚ and nine symphonies. The German musical genius made amazing new strides at the end of the Classical era and paved the way for the up and coming Romantic style. Ludwig van Beethoven’s work can best be summed up by the words of Joseph Machlis and Kristine Forney. "Beethoven
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