Classical Music
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- Created on: 26-05-15 13:46
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- Classical 1750-1810
- Features
- an emphasis on elegance and balance
- short well-balanced melodies and clear-cut question and answer phrases
- mainly simple diatonic harmony
- mainly homophonic textures (melody plus accompaniment) but with some use of counterpoint (where two or more melodic lines are combined)
- use of contrasting moods
- Smooth Dynamics
- Forms
- Symphony
- 1st movement: Allegro (fast) in sonata form
- 2nd movement: Slow
- 3rd movement: Minuet (a dance with three beats in a bar)
- 4th movement: Allegro
- Sonata
- Most of the musical ideas come from two contrasting themes heard in the exposition.
- In the exposition there are two main melodies; first and second subject.
- The first subject is in the tonic key.The second subject is in a different key, usually the dominant or the relative minor. Connected by a transition or bridge passage.
- In the development material from the exposition is transformed. The music goes through modulations (key changes).
- In the recapitulation the exposition is repeated (recapped) in a slightly different and shorter form. The first and second subject are now in the tonic key.
- Symphony
- Instruments
- String family: Violin Viola Cello Bass (double bass, contra bass)
- Woodwind family: Flute, Piccolo, Oboe, English horn Clarinet, Bass clarinet Bassoon, Contrabasso-on
- Brass family: Trumpet Horn (French horn) Trombone Tuba
- Keyboards: Piano Organ
- Notable Composers
- Franz Joseph Haydn
- Missa Sancti Bernardi von Offida (Heiligmesse), B flat Major
- Symphony No. 34, d minor
- Die Schöpfung (The Creation)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Idomeneo
- Symphony No. 35 Haffner, D Major
- Requiem Mass
- Ludwig Van Beethoven
- Mass in D Missa solemnis
- Piano Concerto No. 4- G Major
- Symphony No. 3 Eroica, - E flat Major
- Franz Joseph Haydn
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