Fortepiano

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was one of the most influential public figures in 18th-century Vienna. Two of his most impactful works on public opinion were an opera, The Abduction from the Seraglio, and an instrumental, Violin Concerto No. 5. Throughout both of these compositions, Mozart employs musical exoticism in order to develop a stereotype of Turks as violent and intemperate and to simultaneously juxtapose this image against Western European ideals of rationality and composure. In The Abduction…

Music is always in a constant cycle of change. Over 2000 years, the traditional customs of Western music was no different. Due to the social and religious developments that took place in Europe during these periods of time, concepts such as notes, scales, intervals, ideas all told stories about the character and lives of people through music. Music is a form that is defined as an expression of emotion through sound. To history, music is more than that. Utilizing what we know, recognizing…