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Bell Ringer
• Berry Gordy started out with how much money for his record company?
• How much money did he end with?
Classical Music Culture
• What comes to mind when you think of classical music?
• Maybe sophisticated, formal, complex, opera, symphonies
• Regardless of what you think of, you still associate classical music with a different kind of culture
• This makes it different from traditional and popular music
Classical Music
• Many different cultures have produced classical music throughout different historical periods.
• For example, Mexico is strong for its traditional music.
• Mariachi music has a strong tradition in Mexico but classical music also bloomed in Mexico
Classical Music
• Composers such as Manuel Maria Ponce (1882-1948) and Carlos Chavez (1899-1978) are recognized in Mexico as important to the classical music world.
Classical History
• Many composers depended on patronage to survive.
• Patrons included kings, members of nobility, and sometimes wealthy church leaders.
• Composers were contract employees.• Examples of classical composers included
Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Emerging Middle Class
• As the classical period advanced, more people made more money.
• As the middle class advanced, they wanted to share the cultural entertainments of the elite class.
• These included music, theatre, and literature.• Some merchants enrolled their children in
music lessons.
Emerging Middle Class
• Sometimes composers wrote music specifically for amateur musicians.
• They used familiar folk and popular tunes as themes for their classical symphonies.
• Mozart and Haydn wrote dance music for public balls.
Chamber Music
• Chamber Music- music written during the classical period for small ensembles
• This music was not played for large concert halls, but in rooms or chambers.
• Most of these concerts took place in private homes for social gatherings and at parties.
• This music provided entertainment for nobility, clergy and the arising middle class.
Listening
• Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major• This is a good example of theme and variation
invented by Mozart.• Try to discover how the variation changes
from the original theme
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart• 1756-1791• He was a child prodigy at 8 years
old.• He became famous for his
harpsichord skills when he was just 8 years old.
• He composed his first symphony at 8 and his first opera at age 11.
• Mozart wrote sacred works, piano works, orchestral works, vocal music, chamber music, concertos, and operas.
• Even though he was famous in his day, he died at age 35 in poverty.