Western Music Brahms, Liszt Textbook Music diversies, responding to broder, fragmenting audience Establishment of a permanent great works repetoire, with new interest in music of the past Evident dichotomy between old and new Brahms v Wagner Brahms, competed with Classical composers on their own ground Wagner/Liszt, saw new direction in program/worded music Both sides were interested in links to Beethoven, beginning concept of classical music Nationalism, a force to present a distinctive avor to add to national repertoire Internationalism, also a force too? High/low art split Composers tended to specialize in either light, or heavy music As did the audiences BRAHHHHHHHHMS or Yeah brah...ms Classical music begins to dominate concert life Didnt write a symphony until 76 (43) First, C min, took 20 years to write Then wrote the next one in 12 months First symphony carried the history of Beethoven, but with many departures Conventional form, fast slow, light, fast Key centers use a cycle of thirds OH SHIT COLTRANE Called beethovens tenth Third Symphony wide melodic spans,cross-relations between maj/min within tonic triad,metric ambiguity,all characteristic of brahms Fourth Symphony nale is a chaconne, ie Baroque music rising bass gure drawn from Bachs cantatavariation movement to end a symphony a la eroica rst presents bass as upper reg melody a la beethoven Concertos All also have distinctiveness, esp D Major, Op 77 18787 Chamber Music Piano Quintet F Min, op 34, 1864 continuously building on germinal ideas, ie developing variation Piano Music Individual piano style characterized byfull sonority broken chord guration doubling of melodic line in diatonic? octaves, thirds, fths cross rhythms appogiaturas means of increading the number of attacks while maintaining transparent clarity Variations, string of short character pieces based on the formal and harmonic plan of the theme Last two decades, six collecctions all in ABA form Songs Schubert model ie strophic or modied strophic form some imitate folk songs often wrote in introspective, elegaic mood alchemy of Haydn and Mozart, wrote music for both amateurs and connoisseurs Choral works All composed for amateurs German Requiem established Brahms as major not words from Latin Requiem, but rather various German passages Legacy PATHBREAKER First to draw on past and present simaltaneously Tried to meet composers on their own ground Developed subtle techniques hat were important later on, yet kept the average listener in focus Liszt-sotho New German School, music could be connected to the other arts Originally a virtuoso Symphonic poems 12 written between 48, 58