MUS 1751 Lecture : Music Appreciation Notes 2
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Music appreciation- material for test 3 10/20/2011 4:12:00 pm. We are now transferring time periods from the classical period which is all about form into the romantic period which is all about emotion. The composer who first started to really exemplify both of these is: Beethoven is a giant figure in music history. Musician as artist and is famous for being angry, defiant, disheveled and generally eccentric. While still composing in classical forms, beethoven expanded their limits. Used the scherzo rather than minuet and trio. Using themes from previous movements in later movements. He came from a family of musicians, his father and grandfather were performers at the court at bonn, Went to vienna, played the piano louder, more forcefully, and even more violently than anyone the viennese nobility had ever heard. He sold his compositions and received an annuity from three noblemen so that he could work undisturbed.