Exam Question 6:
Exam Question 6 Making reference to two or more specific composers and their styles of music, discuss how music developed from the romantic period to the present day.
Classical Music: The Classical Symphony Orchestra:
Classical Music: The Classical Symphony Orchestra The Classical Symphony Orchestra
Romantic Classical Music: inspiring, personal, evocative, highly emotive :
Romantic Classical Music: inspiring, personal, evocative, highly emotive Ludwig van Beethoven, Fifth Symphony: pushes classicism to the limit; this piece is built on a short theme that Beethoven likened to his “shaking a fist” against destiny, his triumph over fate
Hector Berlioz, Fantastic Symphony: describes the hallucinations of an opium-induced dream
Richard Wagner, “Ride of the Valkyrie”: thought of operas as Gesamtkunstwerks, put new emphasis on orchestra through leitmotivs
Modernist Music:
Modernist Music Claude Debussy: Claire de Lune (Moonlight), impressionistic, evoking the atmosphere of nature
Arnold Schönberg: Pierrot Lunaire, atonal expressionist music, deliberately avoids traditional chords and harmonies
Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring, a ballet with constantly changing, complex, and violent rhythms
The Age of Jazz:
The Age of Jazz African-American experience, heritage
Intonations, rhythms
Spirituals
“Blue note” / the Blues
Ragtime: Scott Joplin
From New Orleans to Chicago and New York
Jazz in mainstream culture
Symphonies, operas of George Gershwin, swing of Duke Ellington
Contemporary Music:
Contemporary Music Pop music
Electronic music