Did you knew that many years ago, music had a vital importance in the Catholic Church?
Or, did you knew that Johann Sebastián Bach wrote around 1,000 works?
This, and many other interesting facts you will find in this section
At the beginning of the average Age, great part of music was monadic (consisting of single melody without support). Last the six centuries of the average age also contemplated the growth of polyphony (more than one melody at the same time). The composers of the Renaissance extended polyphony of the Average Age, being their vocal music of the Maximal importance. The instruments of used originally to accompany vocal music. The sacred vocal form (religious) more popular was motet, emphasizing up to twelve vocal parts of equal importance. As far as profane music, the madrigals for small groups of voices enjoyed great popularity. They had strophes with refrains repeated like the present pop music.
During the Renaissance, sacred music was an important part of the daily life. Josquin DES Prez (towards 1440-1521) was a composer of the early Renaissance that consecrated its life to write sacred music. At the time at which it began to compose, polyphony was the habitual thing.
In Italy, the center of the Catholic Church, the priest and Italian composer Palestine (towards 1525-1594) reached great reputation by its sacred music. Giovanni Periluig was called in fact although he was known by the name of the small city of Palestine in the Apenios where she had been born.
Something interesting that happened at that time was that in Rome, the Catholic Church was worried so that sacred music resembled too much profane music. It even considered the total prohibition of music in the Church. But the ecclesiastical representatives asked for Palestine and other composers who wrote more appropriate sacred music and due to the glorious contributions of Palestine, music continued being important in the Church. The inscription of its tomb in the Church of San Pedro of Rome says Principe of Music.
Another very important thing that it happened was that the pair of Italian composers formed by uncle and the nephew Andrea Gabrieli (towards 1510-1586) and Giovanni Gabrieli (towards 1556-1612) are famous being pioneering in the use of instruments in religious choral music since before its time, most of the sacred songs were to cappella.
Polyphony in the Baroque one was different from the one from the Renaissance. It very tended to be ornamented, often with trines and very fast notes. This processed style compared the art, the architecture, and the fashion of the time. Also the idea was made very habitual use stringed instruments to accompany one or more melodics lines and the composers for the first time wrote down in music dynamic indications and of time. Most of music it was composed by order, under the direction of patrons or of the royalty that they contracted the composers. Since there were no classics. of music, new music for all occasion had to be made. Like result, the composers of the Baroque one tended to be prolific by necessity, and had little freedom of composition.
Some of the most famous composers were: Italian but elegant of century XVII Claudius Monteverdi (1567-1643), and the Italian Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) who was most original and influential of the Baroque one, were he whom extremely gave an important paper him to the soloist in the orchestra concerts, that is to say, changed to the concert when giving him to the soloist instrument a more outstanding paper, more virtuous.
The greatest composer of the Baroque one was Johann Sebastián Bach (1685-1750) and contrasts deeply with his Haendel contemporary in almost all the facets. He was a simple man, for whom He was it but great it was a natural work, since he grew in a very músical family. Almost all their relatives men were musical, and 53 Bachs were called Johann. To him it liked so much the music that was not stranger who walked 200 kilometers or to listen to a concert more. It very arrived to be known in life like organist, but that like composer. It was so his dedication that sometimes was called on even with a wood in the mouth to reach some notes.
He composed more than 1000 works throughout all his race. He was a teacher of melody and the counterpoint nobody had never combined before these talents so beautifully. Its music was intense and deep, not always easy to understand. Instead of creating new forms and new channels of expression through music, Bach took existing forms and wrote wonderful music for them. Because it did not make any novel contribution, many in their time considered old fashioned Bach. But in our days one of but the great composers in all history is considered.
Unlike the ornamental music of the Baroque one, Classic music was simple, balanced and non emotional. Some of the forms of the Baroque one, like the concert, continued being developed during the Classicism. Other types of composition, like the sonata and the symphony, are certainly classic. With the remarkable exception of Haydn, the composers of this time were but free to compose as they wished, since they were not tied to works that demanded certain types of music. Vienna was the center of the músical activity, and most of the composers of this period some moment or another one lived there at. Less and less composers worked for a boss.
One considers the music of the German composer Christopher Gluck (1714-1787) like bridge between Baroque and the Classicism. He knows himself Gluck by his reform of the opera mainly. From the time of Monteverdi, the opera had become a showcase of singers, and the mission of Gluck was to return to the original idea of the opera like a counted history through music. For that reason, Gluck is known like el father the modern opera. Its popular opera but is Orfeo and Euridice.
On the other hand Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) wrote music of many types, but more father of the modern symphony is known like el. He wrote 104, transforming the symphony of being a piece at the beginning of an opera, until an independent composition of four movements.
Another classic composer was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) who knows itself like the more natural musical genius of history, and its popularity today shows its the most appreciated and recognized music like worldwide. Mozart composed an incredible amount of music during his short life of 35 years. Today it is possibly more well-known by his symphonies, concerts and music of camera.
If Mozart were the genius of the Classicism, Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was the powerful and enthusiastic force that pushed music towards the Romanticism. Mozart used his life in perfecting the sonata, the classic symphony and concerts. Perhaps if he had lived more, he could have done of these types of compositions somewhat new and different. In fact, this one would have to be the paper of Beethoven. Something admirable of him is that if builds but majestic it wrote it completely being deaf, Ode to the joy. its ninth symphony.
The years that go from 1825 to 1900 denominate Romanticism. This time was characterized by great advances in science and the industry, with the invention of the photography, the railroads, the automobiles with gasoline motor, the light bulbs, the typewriters, the telephone and the telegraph. In the same way, the romantic composers created new and only ways to write music. Although there were not two composers who were exactly equal, shared his desire to express his emotions and feelings of form less restrictive than in the Classicism.
The most known composers this time they are:
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
A part of the music composed during the Romanticism licks nationalist. The nationalistic composers were proud of the music and the cultures of their native countries and distant earth. They fused legend and folklore native and rates of dances in his compositions. Russia was the principle of the nationalism. Mihhail Ginka (1804-1857) combined the European songs of folklore Russian and classic styles to produce the first Russian nationalistic compositions. Five composers followed Glinka arriving to be the flagmen of the nationalistic music of Russia: Mily Balakirev (1837-1910), Cesar Cui (1835-1918), Alexander Borodin (1833-1887), Modeste Mussorsky (1839-1881) and Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908). They arrived to be known like el powerful Handful. or "The five". In spite of the contributions of the Five.
The Russian composer more appreciated nowadays is Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Who said Soy Russian, Russian, Russian until medulla of my bones.
The music written as of 1900 is called music of century XX. This music includes/understands a variety of styles greater than the one of any other period of history. One of the first styles of the music of century XX was the Impressionism. In the world of the painting, an impressionist artist presents/displays the scene as in a dream using the light and color, and interprets like would be the scene more than as she sees herself in the reality. The painter catches the spirit of the scene instead of catching a literal representation. Of similar way, the fluid, agreed impressionist composers combine melodies, and rates with profuse orquestations to create musical printings of a scene or devises. Like result, impressionist music sounds very different from the one of the symphonic poem composers of the Romanticism like Richard Strauss, who made an effort in literally recreating histories and images through musical sounds.
France was the center of the Impressionism, and was the French Claude Debussy (1862-1918) who presented/displayed to the musical world the objectives and ideals of this new style.
When the Impressionism arrived at its aim, century XX already had almost four decades of life, and many new styles and composers with talent were outstanding. One of those styles of composition was the Neoclassicism. Neo. means new., so technical neoclassic music was new music written using of the Classicism. The greatest and influential neoclassic composer was Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). Stravinsky was the first composer who directed, supervised and touched the piano in recordings of his own works. For the first time, the music of a composer was preserved for the posterity of the way in which it assumed that it had to be interpreted.
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