Music: The Viennese Classical Style
Musi1103 Final Exam Take Home Essay 16 December 2013 Cynthia Laker
This essay will include an introduction, and then use examples of works from Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven to discuss the historical significance and evolution of the six genres of the Viennese Classical Style.
I. The String Quartet;
II. the Symphony and the Symphony Orchestra;
III. Sonata;
IV. The Concerto;
V. Serenade
This essay will also describe the four forms found in the four-movement symphony.
Sonata allegro;
Ternary;
Theme and Variations;
Rondo
Introduction
The social and political scene during the late 18th century was hardly a setting for a quiet, composed classical age in view of the main revolutionary spirit and imposing rivalry. The revolutionary movement did have a direct effect on music in that music became a new ideal, music that directly attracted a large class of unsophisticated people who had previously been excluded from courtly entertainment. The French obsession with lightness, gracefulness and decoration was offset by the brutal German affinity for drama and tears as expressed in the Sturm und Drung (storm and stress) in the arts of the time.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn and young Ludwig van Beethoven inspired the changes in musical style that distinguished the Classical era from the Baroque. The orchestra and chamber groups such as the string quintet and the piano became consistent with the organization of the musical forms of sonata allegro.
In the middle of the 18th century, Europe began to move toward a new style in architecture, literature, and the arts, generally known as Classicism. The new style was also a cleaner style—one that favoured form and balance, and symmetrical design, and in this era the orchestra size increased. There were changes in technology and science, and the middle class started to rise in importance through the business class. The middle class also desired to make music in their homes. Domestic music-making centered on
This essay will include an introduction, and then use examples of works from Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven to discuss the historical significance and evolution of the six genres of the Viennese Classical Style.
I. The String Quartet;
II. the Symphony and the Symphony Orchestra;
III. Sonata;
IV. The Concerto;
V. Serenade
This essay will also describe the four forms found in the four-movement symphony.
Sonata allegro;
Ternary;
Theme and Variations;
Rondo
Introduction
The social and political scene during the late 18th century was hardly a setting for a quiet, composed classical age in view of the main revolutionary spirit and imposing rivalry. The revolutionary movement did have a direct effect on music in that music became a new ideal, music that directly attracted a large class of unsophisticated people who had previously been excluded from courtly entertainment. The French obsession with lightness, gracefulness and decoration was offset by the brutal German affinity for drama and tears as expressed in the Sturm und Drung (storm and stress) in the arts of the time.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Joseph Haydn and young Ludwig van Beethoven inspired the changes in musical style that distinguished the Classical era from the Baroque. The orchestra and chamber groups such as the string quintet and the piano became consistent with the organization of the musical forms of sonata allegro.
In the middle of the 18th century, Europe began to move toward a new style in architecture, literature, and the arts, generally known as Classicism. The new style was also a cleaner style—one that favoured form and balance, and symmetrical design, and in this era the orchestra size increased. There were changes in technology and science, and the middle class started to rise in importance through the business class. The middle class also desired to make music in their homes. Domestic music-making centered on