Contemporary period is a big-mixed era in the world. Many materials and ideas all can put into music or art works. In this research paper, I will talk about the background of the contemporary era, composers of the contemporary period, the modernism and many different styles of music in this period. This piece I want to talk about, is the horn sonata, wrote by Paul Hindemith. This piece is a good piece to describe the music of the contemporary period because we still perform this at present, and also the style in this piece or many pieces that Hindemith composed are worthy to understand. The contemporary period started around 1890 to present. The Literary Modernism was a big-mixed period, too. Because this period connected the classical, the
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It seems like traditional skills for this piece. However it sounds like very contemporary. He also putted many musical terminologies for many places in this piece. The Sonata for Horn and Piano is fully typical of Hindemith’s work in this genre: classically balanced, with a counterpoint-based equality between the two instruments. The first movement, "Mässig bewegt," opens with a broad, confident horn theme over a percolating piano accompaniment. The second theme, equally spacious, is more reflective. A mysterious, step-like passage leads to an efficient development of all this material, the movement concluding with a heroic statement of the opening melody, now emphasizing its very faint Hungarian twist at the end. The second movement, marked "Ruhig bewegt," features slow, expansive horn melodies, their romantic potential undermined by the piano 's alternation between busy accompaniment and firm tread, and by the horn 's sometimes wide intervallic leaps. Once a curt, recurring sputter of a motif is established, the concluding movement, "Lebhaft," again plays broad horn themes against urgent keyboard work; at times, the horn draws the piano into more introspective interludes and near the end, the piano enlists the horn in a little dance, but for the most part each instrument maintains its initial
It seems like traditional skills for this piece. However it sounds like very contemporary. He also putted many musical terminologies for many places in this piece. The Sonata for Horn and Piano is fully typical of Hindemith’s work in this genre: classically balanced, with a counterpoint-based equality between the two instruments. The first movement, "Mässig bewegt," opens with a broad, confident horn theme over a percolating piano accompaniment. The second theme, equally spacious, is more reflective. A mysterious, step-like passage leads to an efficient development of all this material, the movement concluding with a heroic statement of the opening melody, now emphasizing its very faint Hungarian twist at the end. The second movement, marked "Ruhig bewegt," features slow, expansive horn melodies, their romantic potential undermined by the piano 's alternation between busy accompaniment and firm tread, and by the horn 's sometimes wide intervallic leaps. Once a curt, recurring sputter of a motif is established, the concluding movement, "Lebhaft," again plays broad horn themes against urgent keyboard work; at times, the horn draws the piano into more introspective interludes and near the end, the piano enlists the horn in a little dance, but for the most part each instrument maintains its initial