If you can guess who this portrait is of - you can pick a prize out of the prize basket! (Congratulations to Emily and Breighanne for choosing the word ORNAMENT for the Baroque Era quiz).
Following the Baroque Era, instrumental music began to receive more attention than vocal music. The Overture, Divertimento, chamber music (like trios, quartets, etc.) began to emerge. The formal minuet gave way to the romantic WALTZ. There was much rebellion, patriotism and individualism found in the art of the day.
The period dates from the late 1700's to early 1800s. Here we see the elegant, polished and tuneful beginnings of the SONATA form. Johann Sebastian Bach's son, CARL PHILIP EMANUEL BACH was the first to experiment with Sonata-Allegro form. The Classical movement provides opportunity to focus on TONAL BALANCE, STEADY TEMPO, ATTENTION TO PHRASE MARKS, STACCATOS, RESTS, DYNAMICS, ACCURATE TIME VALUES and SPEEDY SCALE PASSAGES.
One of the most famous composers of this era was LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN. He was born in 1770 in Bonn, Germany and died in 1827. He was famously deaf, yet brilliantly composed hundreds of well-known pieces. It is well known that Beethoven would cut the legs off of his piano and lie down on the floor to feel the vibrations while he composed.
When memorizing a piece from this era, it is important to use our AURAL skills (like the recognition of intervals and chords), ANALYTICAL skills (like our knowledge of theory; specifically key signatures and scale runs) and TACTILE skills (fingering, fingering, fingering! :0)
Other famous composers of this time were; Wofgang Amadeus M
ozart, Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn and Frederic Chopin.
I have found a couple of great links for Ludwig Van Beethoven. He has an amazing life-story. It's worth a read. The second link includes Audio (midi) to listen to his work. (INCLUDING THE VARIATIONS FOR PIANO OF THE DUET BY PAISIELLO! :0)
http://www.raptusassociation.org/beet-biopages.html
http://www.lvbeethoven.com/
http://its.caltech.edu/~tan/BeethovenMissaSolemnis/missa_solemnis.html
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