Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Classical Chamber Music:
String Quartet
- Composers
- Haydn (1732-1809)
- Mozart (1756-1791)
- Beethoven (1770-1827)
- Classical Period (1750 - 1827)
- Instrumentation
- Two Violins
- Viola
- Cello
- NO HARPSICHORD
- String techniques
- Arco - play
with the
bow
- Pizzicato -
pluck the
strings
- Tremolo - quickly move the
bow back and forth creating
a trembling effect
- Stylistic Features
- Dynamics are written into score
- Dynamics can be slowly changed
- "piano" - quiet
- "forte" - loud
- "crescendo" -
gradually getting
louder
- "diminuendo" -
gradually getting
quieter
- "mezzo piano" -
moderately quiet
- Texture
- Melody and accompaniment
- One instrument plays the
melody whilst the other
instruments provide a simple
accompaniment
- Occasionally an instrument
might accompany with a
repetitive figure called an
"Alberti Bass"
- This is based on the
notes of a chord
- Question and answer
- An instrument or a pair of
instruments perform a melody and
then this is imitated by another
instrument
- Melody
- Quite lyrical
- Smooth scalic lines
- Ascending
- Descending
- Made up of arpeggios
- Sequences
- A bit of music that is repeated but
then it is transposed up or down by
one note
- Musical phrases
are balanced
- 2 or 4 bar phrases
- Defined as where natural breaks of
"breathing points" occur in a
musical line
- Harmony
- Primary chords will be used more
to harmonise the melody
- Cadences
- Perfect (sound finished)
- Imperfect (sound unfinished)
- Harmonic rhythm
- How fast chords
change
- Typically
change one
chord per bar
- Performed in a small room
for a small audience