2. Vienna, Austria
• Vienna, the capital city of Austria has
long been an important centre of
musical innovation. Composers of
the 18th and 19th centuries were
drawn to the city by the patronage
of the Habsburgs, and made Vienna
the European capital of classical
music.
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Ludwig van Beethoven Johann Strauss Jr.
among others, were associated with the city. During the
Baroque period, Slavic and Hungarian folk forms influenced
Austrian music. Vienna's status began its rise as a cultural center
in the early 16th century, and was focused around instruments
including the lute.
4. Musikverein
• is considered to be one of the
three finest concert halls in the
world and was opened on
January 6, 1870. Since 1939,
the famous Vienna New Year's
Concert of the Vienna
Philharmonic is broadcast from
its Golden Hall to an audience
of one billion in 44 countries.
5. Vienna Philharmonic
• The members of the Vienna
Philharmonic, which is regularly
considered one of the finest
orchestras in the world, are
chosen from the orchestra of the
Vienna State Opera.
• The Vienna Philharmonic can
trace its origins to 1842, when
Otto Nicolai formed the
Philharmonische Academie. This
orchestra took all its decisions by
a democratic vote of all its
members, and these are
principles still held today.
6. Folk Music
• Schrammelmusik
- The most popular form of
modern Austrian folk music
is Viennese
Schrammelmusik, which is
played with an accordion
and a double-necked guitar.
Modern performers include
Roland Neuwirth, Karl
Hodina, and Edi Reiser.
7. • Yodeling
- Yodeling is a type of
throat singing that
was developed in the
Alps. In Austria, it was
called juchazn and
featured the use of
both nonlexical
syllables and yells that
were used to
communicate across
mountains.
8. Austrian Folk Dancing
• Austrian folk
dancing is mostly
associated with
Schuhplattler,
Ländler, or Waltz.
However, there
are other dances,
such as
Zwiefacher,
Kontratänze, and
Sprachinseltänze
9. • Schuhplattler
- is a traditional folk dance popular in
the Alpine regions of Bavaria and
Austria. It evolved from the Ländler.
The origins of this social dance are
found in an early courtship display
(Balztanz). Such a dance was
described in 1050 by a monk of
Tegernsee Abbey in the knightly poem
Ruodlieb, wherein similar postures
and movements of the Schuhplatter
are depicted. The homelands of the
Schuhplattler dance are the Northern
Limestone Alps (Bavarian Prealps,
Chiemgau and Berchtesgaden Alps) of
Upper Bavaria (Germany) and the
adjacent Austrian states of Tyrol and
Salzburg, down to South Tyrol and the
Drava Valley in Carinthia .
10. • Ländler
- is a folk dance in 3/4 time which was
popular in Austria, south Germany,
German Switzerland, and Slovenia at
the end of the 18th century.
It is a dance for couples which strongly
features hopping and stamping. It was
sometimes purely instrumental and
sometimes had a vocal part,
sometimes featuring yodeling.
11. • Waltz
-is the original form of the
waltz. It was the first
ballroom dance performed
in the closed hold or
"waltz" position. The
dance that is popularly
known as the waltz is
actually the English or slow
waltz, danced at
approximately 90 beats
per minute with 3 beats to
the bar
12. Austropop
• is a musical movement, which started in Austria in the middle
of the 1970s. However, Austropop is not much of a specific
style, it is more a trademark of origin, because musicians of
various styles, such as rock, Neue Deutsche Welle, New Folk
and more recently perhaps Pop, are counted as Austropop
artists, while Schlager is not. Contrary to common belief, not
all Austropop-lyrics are written in dialect, many are in fact
Standard-German or even English.
• The movement is believed to have started in 1971 by
Wolfgang Ambros with his song "Da Hofa".
