ARTH 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Art Of Europe, Hoboken Catalogue, Marionette
7 May 2020
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Chapter 12: instrumental music in the classical era. With rise of public concerts, the publishing industries and increased amounts of home music making in the growing middle class, there was an increased need for instrumental music production. Early in the 1700"s, the idea that instrumental music was a language in its own right had developed. The theorist, heinrich christoph koch, compared the construction of a melody to the construction of a sentence, and gradually the idea that musical themes should have symmetry and. Rational organization patterns came to dominate in the classical styles. The idea of periodic phrase structures dominated the music of the period. Many of the instrumental genres that were composed during the classical era consisted of several movements. Again, balance and symmetry played a part in this overall organization: fast, slow, fast; or, Solo sonatas and concerti usually (but always) made use of three movements, while the string quartet and later symphonies adopted the four-movement plan.
