Characteristics of classical music

Its main characteristics are paying attention to form, harmony, elegant style and optimism, represented by Beethoven in the19th century, full of diversity and more obvious nationality.

The characteristics and development relations of each period are analyzed as follows:

First, romantic music and folk music genre

Romantic music rose at the beginning of19th century and reached its peak in the middle of19th century. Romantic music is different from classical music before19th century. Classical music advocates rationality, attaches importance to norms, and demands restraint and form of feelings, while romantic music pays attention to emotional expression and personalized psychological portrayal, and pays attention to poetry and painting in music, with passionate feelings.

National music schools also have romantic musical elements, which appeared in Russia and Eastern Europe in the middle and late19th century.

It focuses on its own folk songs and folk dance music, adopts its own heroic epic, myths and legends and the deeds of people's liberation struggle, and closely combines the distinctive features of national music with the excellent tradition of classical music and the artistic style of romantic music, so national feelings are endowed with strong artistic vitality.

The main representatives of Russian national music school are glinka, the father of Russian music, and Tchaikovsky, a Russian musician.

Second,19th Century Music-Romantic Music

1, representative figures and works:

Germany: Beethoven's later works are a bridge between classicism and romanticism. He expressed his thoughts and feelings of opposing feudal autocracy and praising capitalism in his symphony works.

② Austria: johann strauss, known as the "King of Waltz", is famous for its beautiful melody and brisk rhythm, especially the Blue Danube.

2. Main features:

① Pay attention to lyricism, autobiography and personal psychological portrayal, and highlight personal feelings;

(2) centering on Austria and Germany;

③ It lasted for a long time and reached its peak in the middle of19th century.

Iii./kloc-the brilliant achievements of opera in the 0/9th century

1, the representative figures and works are:

Italy: Verdi's La Traviata, etc.

France: Carmen of Bizet.

2. The main features of opera in this period:

It not only has strong patriotism and national consciousness, but also fully shows romanticism.

Fourth, the rise of the national music school.

1. Representative figures and works: Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake.

2. The main features are: promoting national characteristics.

Extended data:

Vienna classical music:

Bach's death marked the end of the Baroque era, followed by the Vienna Classical Music School. Music in this period inherited the achievements of traditional European polyphonic music and melodic music, and established important musical forms such as sonata, concerto and symphony. Chamber music also developed during this period, which played a very important role in the development of music later.

The music in the classical period was relatively rigorous, inherited the rationality of the Baroque era, but more integrated with people's emotions, realizing the unity of the two. Therefore, the content of music performance in the classical period is more abundant, and it is perfectly integrated with music art.

In the period of classical music, the three most important representatives were Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

Mozart's music is full of gorgeous feelings and always brings people an affinity, which comes from Mozart's pure mentality of creating music. On the other hand, Beethoven experienced more hardships and diseases than Mozart.

Romantic music:

After 1820, with the end of the classical music period, romantic music began to sprout. The music forms in this period are more abundant, which is the period closest to modern times at the peak of classical art, and most of the classical music that is most easily accepted now comes from this period.

Romantic music pays more attention to people's spiritual realm and subjective emotional expression, shows more prominent natural scenery, and uses ethnic and folk music more frequently, which can be said to be truly popular.

In fact, in the later works of Beethoven, Rossini and other classical composers, the color of romantic music has been revealed, and musicians born around 1800 have formed the center of early romanticism.

Subsequently, the romantic music was perfected by well-known musicians such as Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin and Verdi, and reached its peak in the era of Tchaikovsky, Liszt and Wagner, forming the core of romantic music. Of course, the contributions of the late romantic musicians Mahler and Rachmaninov should not be underestimated.

The musical period before the transition to modern music, that is, from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, is only a hundred years, but it is also a period in which classical music gradually evolves into modern music. In this short period, there have been many musical forms, which can also be called impressionist music, expressionist music and neoclassical music.

Expressionist music and neoclassical music are collectively called new music, which generally refers to the new music form discovered after impressionist music. Compared with the classical music in The Romantic Period and before, these music have been fundamentally different, and the transition from classical music to modern music has become an inevitable trend.

Music in this period paid more attention to the expression of people's spiritual realm and subjective feelings, the performance of natural scenery became more and more prominent, and the application of national folk music was paid more attention and frequently in creation.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia: Classical Music