Zoya Alikhan
Humanities 1101
Professor Clifford
October 25th, 2017 Reflection on “The Joy of Mozart” Video
1. In the video, “The Joy of Mozart,” the radio presenter Tom Service learns about the life of a man named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart was one of the greatest Austrian composers of the classical era. He composed operas, concertos, symphonies, sonatas, masses, and chamber music. Service travels from London to Vienna and Salzburg and visits the cities where Mozart lived and worked. During Service’s journey, he plays Mozart’s instruments and scores.
2. In this section, I will be comparing and contrasting between the Baroque music and the Classical music. The Baroque music was a style that dominated Western art music between 1600 to 1750. The Baroque pursued the Renaissance music era and was pursued by the Classical era. The famous composers of the Baroque era were Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi. …show more content…
A fugue (literally “flight”) is a polyphonic composition in which a single musical theme (or subject) is re-stated in sequential phrases… In the eighteen individual compositions that make up The Art of Fugue, Bach explored the possibilities of imitative counterpoint; for example, the musical subject might be arranged to appear backward or inverted (or both); it might be augmented (the time values of the notes doubled) or diminished (note values halved). (Fiero 294). This shows that Baroque music was very complex and had many instruments playing lines at once. This is called polyphonic. Classical music was art music produced in the traditions of Western music which happened around the same time as Baroque. Classical music was much simpler and had a soft and clearer sound. This music was homophonic which means that the same sounds are played together. Fiero argues that “classical composers, most of who came from Germany and
Humanities 1101
Professor Clifford
October 25th, 2017 Reflection on “The Joy of Mozart” Video
1. In the video, “The Joy of Mozart,” the radio presenter Tom Service learns about the life of a man named Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart was one of the greatest Austrian composers of the classical era. He composed operas, concertos, symphonies, sonatas, masses, and chamber music. Service travels from London to Vienna and Salzburg and visits the cities where Mozart lived and worked. During Service’s journey, he plays Mozart’s instruments and scores.
2. In this section, I will be comparing and contrasting between the Baroque music and the Classical music. The Baroque music was a style that dominated Western art music between 1600 to 1750. The Baroque pursued the Renaissance music era and was pursued by the Classical era. The famous composers of the Baroque era were Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, and Vivaldi. …show more content…
A fugue (literally “flight”) is a polyphonic composition in which a single musical theme (or subject) is re-stated in sequential phrases… In the eighteen individual compositions that make up The Art of Fugue, Bach explored the possibilities of imitative counterpoint; for example, the musical subject might be arranged to appear backward or inverted (or both); it might be augmented (the time values of the notes doubled) or diminished (note values halved). (Fiero 294). This shows that Baroque music was very complex and had many instruments playing lines at once. This is called polyphonic. Classical music was art music produced in the traditions of Western music which happened around the same time as Baroque. Classical music was much simpler and had a soft and clearer sound. This music was homophonic which means that the same sounds are played together. Fiero argues that “classical composers, most of who came from Germany and