Musical Styles and Composers: From Enlightenment to Classicism
The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was the 18th-century epoch marked by rationalism. Its features are:
- The inspiration to create a cultured society
- Questioning God
- Compilation of the nature of scientific knowledge
- Artistic interest in the ancient
Rococo (Style Galant)
Style Galant was the dominant ideal and is called the galant term. Characteristics:
- Polyphony was abandoned, and counterpoint was subordinated to companions.
- The parties to the main melodic line.
- The bass line acts as a support for the voice.
Musical Expression in Early Childhood Education
The Importance of Musical Expression
Musical expression is an artistic expression of children’s perceptions, ideas, and thoughts. The expression of musical language and body in basic education is based on the teaching process. It is essential for life and is part of the sound that surrounds the child. It is a system of education. Musical expression prepares the child’s soul, body, and voice, and everything musical that surrounds them.
The Importance of the Child in Development
Fundamental knowledge
Read MoreRobert Schumann’s Piano Works: Romanticism and Musical Innovation
In the nineteenth century, with the advent of Romanticism, piano music became a personal art form. Music was one of the leading preoccupations of the Romantic literary movement in Germany, which attributed to music the power to express the most subtle and powerful emotions better than any other artistic medium. Romanticism in music was a movement of both theatrical technical skill and subjective intimacy. Masters of keyboard composition, like Schumann, struck at virtuosity with its own weapons,
Read MoreNationalism in 19th-Century European Music
In the second half of the nineteenth century, there was a new phenomenon in the European music scene. It consisted of the incorporation of generations of music from countries that had hitherto been generally on the margins of musical evolution. This was not so much because music was not cultivated in them, but because the importation of music was to the detriment of domestic production.
Russia
Until the nineteenth century, Russian art music had been dominated by foreign musicians. Peter the Great
Read MoreEd Sheeran – Shape of You: Lyrics
Ed Sheeran – Shape of You
The club isn’t the best place to find a lover
So the bar is where I go
Me and my friends at the table doing shots
Drinking fast and then we talk slow
Come over and start up a conversation with just me
And trust me I’ll give it a chance now
Take my hand, stop, put Van the Man on the jukebox
And then we start to dance, and now I’m singing like
Girl, you know I want your love
Your love was handmade for somebody like me
Come on now, follow my lead
I may be crazy, don’t mind me
Say, boy,
Renaissance Art, Culture, and Music: Influences and Genres
1. Factors Enabling Renaissance Art and Culture
- Economic prosperity followed the end of epidemics and famines.
- A new social class, the wealthy merchants (bourgeoisie), became patrons of the arts, alongside the nobility and clergy.
- The rise of humanism promoted art for human needs, not just religious purposes.
- The rediscovery of classical wisdom emphasized human potential.
- The printing press and global travels facilitated the spread of new ideas.
2. Humanism’s Influence on Renaissance Music
- The diffusion