Minuet music1/27/2024 ![]() The string section still holds its prominence as the center-piece for the orchestra. Each section in the classical orchestra has a unique musical purpose as penned by the composer. An orchestral classical piece utilizes a much larger tonal palette and more rapid changes of the ensemble’s timbre through a variety of orchestration techniques. Classical composers explored the individual unique tone colors of the instruments and they did not treat the instrumental sections interchangeably. The sections include the strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. In the Classical period, the orchestra expanded into an ensemble that might include as many as thirty to sixty musicians distributed into four sections. Whether performed in a palace or a more modest middle class home, chamber music, as the name implies, was generally performed in chamber or smaller room. In addition to string quartets, composers wrote duets, trios, quintets, and even sextets, septets, and octets. Although the first pianos were developed in the first half of the eighteenth century, most of the technological advancements that led the piano to overtaking all other keyboard instruments in popularity occurred in the late eighteenth century.īesides the keyboard instruments, the string quartet was the most popular new chamber music ensembles of the Classical period and comprised two violins, a viola, and a cello. This feature was not available in the Baroque harpsichord. Initially called the fortepiano, then the pianoforte, and now the piano was capable of dynamics from soft to loud the player needed only to adjust the weight applied when depressing a key. The Classical period saw new performing forces such as the piano and the string quartet and an expansion of the orchestra. In the case of a symphony or operatic ensemble, the texture might be described as homophony with multiple accompanying lines or polyphony with a predominant melodic line. The homophony of the Classical period featured predominant melody lines accompanied by relatively interesting and independent lines. Composers included more expressive marks in their music, such as the crescendo and decrescendo. In the music of Haydn, Mozart, and the early Beethoven, we find tuneful melodies using question/answer or antecedent/consequent phrasing flexible deployment of rhythm and rests and slower harmonic rhythm (harmonic rhythm is the rate at which the chords or harmonies change). ![]() The Classical style of music embodies balance, structure, and flexibility of expression, arguably related to the noble simplicity and calm grandeur that the eighteenth century art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann saw in ancient Greek art. ![]() ![]() Greater use of contrasting dynamics, articulations, and tempos.New emphasis on musical form: for example, sonata form, theme and variations, minuet and trio, rondo, and first-movement concerto form.Question and answer (aka antecedent consequent) phrases that are shorter than earlier phrases.New genres such as the symphony and string quartet.Continued increase of music among merchant classes.Continued presence of music at church and court.New genres such as opera, oratorio, concerto, cantata, and fugue.Rise of instrumental music, including the violin family.Rise of homophony polyphony still used.\)ĥ.4.1 Music Comparison Overview Baroque Music
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