Classical Music: a gentle introduction.
As part of Culture night 2015, I presented an evening of Classical delights and hosted a discussion on the different genres of Classical Music. The event also had audio recordings of some of the highlighted composers and musicians.
Classical Music: a gentle introduction.
As part of Culture night 2015, I presented an evening of Classical delights and hosted a discussion on the different genres of Classical Music. The event also had audio recordings of some of the highlighted composers and musicians.
Classical era music followed the late Baroque period of music. It maintained many styles of the Baroque tradition but placed new emphasis on elegance and simplicity (as opposed to Baroque music's grandiosity and complexity) in both choral music and instrumental music. It was followed by the Romantic period.
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The first three periods of Western Music History are classified as Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque. Each period has its distinctive characteristics, historical and cultural background. A type of music from the Medieval Era is Gregorian Chant, which was mainly used in the early Christian church. Music during the Renaissance Period became an important leisure activity. Members of the upper class were expected to have received musical training. Imitative polyphony is the distinctive characteristic of Renaissance music.
Because of the slow emergence of European society from the dark ages, dozens of "mini kingdoms" were established all over Europe, each presided over by a lord who had fought for and won the land. Mostly through superstitious fear, early Catholic leaders were able to claim absolute power over these feudal lords.
Classical era music followed the late Baroque period of music. It maintained many styles of the Baroque tradition but placed new emphasis on elegance and simplicity (as opposed to Baroque music's grandiosity and complexity) in both choral music and instrumental music. It was followed by the Romantic period.
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The first three periods of Western Music History are classified as Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque. Each period has its distinctive characteristics, historical and cultural background. A type of music from the Medieval Era is Gregorian Chant, which was mainly used in the early Christian church. Music during the Renaissance Period became an important leisure activity. Members of the upper class were expected to have received musical training. Imitative polyphony is the distinctive characteristic of Renaissance music.
Because of the slow emergence of European society from the dark ages, dozens of "mini kingdoms" were established all over Europe, each presided over by a lord who had fought for and won the land. Mostly through superstitious fear, early Catholic leaders were able to claim absolute power over these feudal lords.
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2. The Romantic Era
Where Classical had been reason, order, and rules,
Romantic was emotion, adventure, and imagination.
OPERA
Written to show off skills
Implemented Dissonance and modulation
Huge interest in songs written as part of a cycle: a
complete story told with several related songs.
Changing from 1 key to another
Sounds harsh
to the ear
3. What was happening in the world
during this period?
1825 - Erie Canal opens
1838 - Invention of photography
1846 - Neptune discovered
1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin
of the Species
1861-1865 - American Civil War
4. 1869 - Transcontinental Railroad completed
1872 - Brooklyn Bridge opens
1876 - Telephone invented
1877 - Phonograph invented
1886 - Statue of Liberty presented to New
York
1893 - Henry Ford builds first car
1903 - Wright Brothers first airplane flight at
Kitty Hawk, NC
1905 - E=mc2 - Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
5. Social and Political Influences
Industrialism
First occurred in Britain
Power shifted from
aristocratic landowners
to middle class city
dwellers
Populations moved
from an agrarian (rural)
center to an urban
center
7. Famous People from the Era
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Sigmund Freud
Abraham Lincoln
Mark Twain
Alexander Graham Bell
Henry Ford
Booker T. Washington
Karl Marx
Jack the Ripper
Walt Whitman
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau
Edgar Allen Poe
Emily Dickinson
James Fenimore Cooper
Cezanne, Manet, Van Gogh
19. What does the term Romantic
mean?
The Romantic movement in music coincides with
a general Romantic movement in all arts.
At this period, the arts of literature and painting
began to influence music.
In the Romantic era, music acquired poetic or
philosophical meaning.
Antiquity, folklore, history and exotic cultures
were examined as possible sources of
inspiration.
20. Characteristics of the
Romantic Period
Music is not as reliant on repetition as in
Classical music
The music often directly tells a story
Exploration of tone colors
Much bigger orchestras
Popularity of chamber music
Music is highly emotional
Poetry and music are intimately fused
21. Musical Innovations
Invention of the song cycle
Invention of the symphonic poem
Great works written for solo piano
Composers stretched the listeners ear by
creating a great deal of dissonance using
chromatic notes, and extensions of the triad.
Composers began to drift away from the
strong sense of tonality heard in Classical
music.
Founding of conservatories
22. Composer
Composers gradually left the patronage system and
became free agents of their own works.
This meant that the composer, their music and their
livelihood depended on the public’s approval.
For the first time, a composer’s work might not be
publicly performed during his or her lifetime.
Romantics saw themselves as outsiders, isolated
from mainstream society, struggling to express their
creative ideas.
In general, composers held higher social status than
in the Classical period.
26. Musical Elements
Melody
Age of lyricism – unending melody
Melodies appealed to the emotions
Phrases tended to be longer and irregular
in length
Themes were more complex and utilized
chromaticism
Advent of theme transformation (Berlioz,
Wagner)
27. Musical Elements
Harmony
Basically tonal
By end of the 19th century chromaticism
(movement by half steps) stretched
tonality to the breaking point
Chromaticism imbued greater
dissonance and tension into the sound
28. Musical Elements
Rhythm
Rhythmic effects were used for “color” –
rubato
Articulations in the instruments tended to be
heavy and intense
A new vocabulary of music terms arose that
indicated how to achieve the composer’s
desired sound – cantabile, dolce, con amore,
allegro agitato. These designations produced
a more emotional sound and response.
31. Timbre/Instrumentation
This period saw a full exploration of the instrumental
families.
Instruments were used for both their individual and
collective color potential.
Instrumental timbre was used to convey mood and
atmosphere.
The orchestra became much larger – from 70 players
to more than 100 (resulting in the necessity of a
conductor).
Instruments could play louder and carry farther.
Instruments were capable of major changes in
dynamics.
33. Woodwinds
Development of new instruments
saxophone (baritone and tuba) were invented by
Adolf Sax
piccolo, bass clarinet and English horn were
added.
Important improvements in wind instruments
“Boehm system” of fingering for flutes and
clarinets achieved better facility and intonation for
the performer and greater musical range
34. Brass
Addition of valves and improvement to
valves on brass instruments allowed the
playing of a full chromatic compass for the
first time and to more easily play quick runs
of notes
Tubas and Trombones were added
36. Famous Romantic Composers
Frederic Chopin
Franz Liszt
Hector Berlioz
Johannes Brahms
Modest Mussorgsky
Felix Mendelssohn
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Richard Wagner
38. Ludwig Von Beethoven
Crucial figure in the transition from
Classical to Romantic
The Romantic period really began
around 1815. Works from this period
are characterized by their intellectual
depth, their formal innovations, and their
intense, highly-personal expression.
46. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Wrote 11 operas, 4 concertos, 6
symphonies, 3 ballets
Most remembered for his ballets: Sleeping
Beauty and Swan Lake
Music is intense: Melancholy & emotional
It has been speculated that he committed
suicide
48. Richard Wagner
Began composing at age 17
3 stages of opera creations:
early, middle, and third
His primary legacy was his
creation of operas
Wrote the opera Tristan and
Isolde.
Tristan und Isolde
was one of his
greatest operas
49. Tristan & Isolde
In the Wagnerian version the
plot is briefly as follows: Tristan,
having lost his parents in
infancy, has been reared at the
court of his uncle, Marke, King
of Cornwall. He has slain in
combat Morold, an Irish knight,
who had come to Cornwall, to
collect the tribute that country
had been paying to Ireland.
Morold was affianced to his
cousin Isolde, daughter of the
Irish king. Tristan, having been
dangerously wounded in the
combat, places himself, without
disclosing his identity, under the
care of Morold’s affianced,
Isolde who comes of a race
skilled in magic arts.
She discerns who he is; but,
although she is aware that
she is harbouring the slayer
of her affianced, she spares
him and carefully tends him,
for she has conceived a
deep passion for him. Tristan
also becomes enamoured of
her, but both deem their love
unrequited. Soon after
Tristan’s return to Cornwall,
he is dispatched to Ireland
by Marke, that he may win
Isolde as Queen for the
Cornish king…
52. Opera
Very popular during the Romantic era.
Composers focused on melodies and
themes.
Huge interest in songs written as part of
a cycle: a complete story told with
related songs.