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Classical Music Forms
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Classical Music Forms
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Duos, Trios, Quartets, Quintets,Sextets, Octets
Music for small groups of instruments
They can include any types of instruments incombination, and the focus again is on theinterplay between the instruments.
The most famous style is the string quartet,which is made up of 2 violins, viola andcello.
These are usually very complex,serious pieces.
Sonata
The equivalent of a symphonybut for just one or twoinstruments
A piano sonata is usually a piano alone(Beethoven wrote 31 of them) while a violinsonata usually has a piano accompaniment.
Chamber Music
A quaint definition is that chambermusic is for a small group oflisteners
More precisely, it is for a smallgroup of performers
ranging
for one (eg a sonata)
to about six or eight (a sextet and octet)
They can include any types of instruments incombination, and the focus again is on theinterplay between the instruments.
Opera
Operas are very large scale piecesthat are a mixture of music andtheatre
Operas usually contain a full orchestra, solosingers and choir, who are required to act aswell as sing.
Operas can also be enjoyed fortheir music content alone.
Well known operas are
Mozart's Magic Flute
Bizet's Carmen
Wagner's Ring cycle
a huge set of four operas
Puccini's Madame Butterfly
Suite
A collection of short musical pieces,usually dances, to form a largerwork.
Can be for orchestra or solo instrument.
Best known are
Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker suite
Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances.
Concerto
Also a large-scale work for full orchestrabut with the addition of an instrumentalsoloist
Most commonly this is a piano, violin orcello, but can be any instrument of theorchestra.
The interplay between the orchestra and thesoloist is the distinguishing feature of theconcerto.
Vivaldi's Four Seasons is acollection of four violinconcertos.
Other great concertos include:
the piano concertos of
Mozart
Beethoven
Tchaikovsky
the violin concertos of
Beethoven
Brahms
Tchaikovsky
Sibelius
the cello concertos of
Dvorak
Elgar
Symphony
A large-scale work for full orchestra.
Usually consists of four movementsor sections, often alternatingfast-slow.
Beethoven's ninth symphony was the first tobreak with tradition in that he included vocalsoloists and a full choir into the final movement.
Other composers who wrotewell-known symphonies are:
Haydn (wrote 104 of them)
Mozart
Schubert
Brahms
Tchaikovsky
Mahler
Prokofiev
Shostakovich