THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (1750-1825) THE CLASSICAL PERIOD OF MUSIC 1) TIME OF GREAT MUSICAL EXPERIMENTATION AND DISCOVERY 2) CENTERS AROUND ACHIEVEMENTS OF VIENNESE SCHOOL A) HAYDN B) MOZART C) BEETHOVEN 3) THREE CHALLENGING PROBLEMS A) EXPLORE MAJOR-MINOR SYSTEM TO ITS FULLEST B) TO PERFECT A LARGE FORM OF ABSOLUTE INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC (THE SONATA CYCLE) C) TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN ITS (SONATA CYCLE) VARIOUS TYPES 1) SONATA 2) CONCERTO SYMPHONY 3) ELEMENTS OF THE CLASSICAL PERIOD 1) ELEGANT AND LYRICAL MELODIES A) ELEGANT AND LYRICAL MELODIES B) CLEAR-CUT CADENCES 2) THE HARMONIES THAT SUSTAINED THESE MELODIES A) FIRMLY ROOTED IN THE KEY RHYTHM 3) A) MUSIC WAS IN EITHER 2, 3, 4, OR 6/8 B) STAYED IN RHYTHMIC STYLE IT BEGAN WITH 4) FORM A) UNFOLDED
This suite, part of a series of four “overtures” (as Bach called them) represent experimenting by Bach, since they resemble a French style music used by Italian-born composer Jean-Baptiste Lully. Suite No. 3, which contains “Air on a G string”, is the most popular of all the overtures. The “Air on a G String” is the brief second movement of this suite. Although the full suite includes trumpets, oboe, and tympani as well as the strings and a bass line usually played on harpsichord and cello, this movement is reduced to the string orchestra only.
The most influential music of the early Romantic period His sonatas do not adhere to a strict formal scheme and they create a mood without text or programme Influential were Field's early piano concertos, which occupy a central place in the development of the genre in the 19th century Pioneered the Romantic large scale episodic structure. Partly as a result of his extravagant lifestyle, Field's health began deteriorating by mid-1820s By the late 1820's he was suffering from rectal cancer He gave his last concert in March 1836 and died in Moscow from pneumonia He was buried in the Vvedenskoye Cemetery Influenced many major composers, including Chopin, Brahms, Schumann, and Liszt Is best known today for originating the piano nocturne, a form later made famous by Chopin, as well as the development of the Russian piano school. The first historically important work was Piano Concerto No. 1 H 27 First official opus was a set of three piano sonatas published by (and dedicated to) Clementi in
The pieces that I chose to analyze were Beethoven’s 5th symphony movement 1, and Love the Way You Lie by Eminem and Rihanna. These pieces are very different and at first glance, I was hard pressed to find anything that I could use to compare them, but many elements that I could contrast. Beethoven’s 5th symphony was written over a four year period beginning in 1804 and culminating in 1808. Beethoven was a German composer and pianist and he is one of the most famous composers of all time. He was a transitional musician between the classical and the romantic periods and therefore his music was a distinct split from the past.
According to Taruskin, “the great majority of Beethoven’s works, to the end of the first decade of the new century, was marked by the new heroic style.” In this essay, i will examine the “new heroic style” and how it is a response to the times in which he lived. In the second part of this essay, I will also attempt to evaluate the ways in which the quartets (Op.59) can be considered a “product” of the times using the discussion of forms, part writing, texture and other musical elements. The “New Heroic Style” The“New Heroic Style” is often associated with Beethoven in his middle period, which begins in the year 1802 and runs through to about 1812. It is a new musical approach and new compositional style that Beethoven developed in his writing of music in the “Heroic period”, which was during the start of the 19th century as Beethoven “was eager to test his abilities in the larger, more popular forms and to reach
Composers such as Luigi Rossi, Jean Baptiste Lully and Francesco Cavalli, who were influenced by Monteverdi’s genius, followed closely behind. Claudio Monteverdi has often been heralded as the father of opera. However, although he may have been the first genius to ever compose an opera in the seventeenth century, he was not the first. The following passage accurately highlights this: It is sometimes not the originator of an idea, but the first person to show its full potential, who gives it a permanent place in human history. So it was with opera, whose first great composer was not Peri or Caccini but Claudio Monteverdi Monteverdi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy, in 1567.
A: A musician who wrote love poems in courtly loves traddition in Germany. 9. what was the difference between a troubador and a minnesinger? A: That the minnesinger accompained their songs on the viol, instead of employing jongleurs. 10. what does the word minnesinger mean? A: "a singer of love songs."
Describe the ways in which Beethoven makes use of form and tonality in the first movement The first movement of Beethoven’s First Symphony is in sonata form. This means that the movement is divided into four sections, the first subject, the bridge, the second subject and the codetta. The movement starts off in the tonic key of C major. It remains in this key for a few bars until in changes to D minor in bar nineteen. The first subject starts at bar thirteen and ends at bar thirty-three on a perfect cadence in C major.
George Gershwin is one of the most sought after musicians in American history. He was a composer of jazz, opera and popular songs for stage and screen, and many of his works are now today’s standards. Even though George had a short life, his works live on today. George was born on September 26, 1898 in Brooklyn, New York. He was the second son of Russian immigrants.
Cornejo, Andrea 05/29/15 Per.6 Ludwig Van Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. Still to this day he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time. There is no record of when Beethoven’s actual birthdate, but there information of when he was baptized and that is where his story begins. Beethoven was baptized on December 17, 1770 in Bonn, Germany. His birth was during the Baroque musical time period.