MUS 201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Keyboard Instrument, Relative Key, Johann Stamitz
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The whole period was colored by the philosophical movement known as the. Enlightenment. led by the great french philosophers voltaire and rousseau. Everyone is created equal. the movement tried to improve education, eliminate superstition and prejudice, and break down the rigid class structure that separated people from one another. Enlightenment ideals reached their high point in vienna in the 1780s and 1790s, but they exerted an influence on many other parts of the world as well. The results and its influence on music: The flourishing economy created a large and prosperous middle class, whose members felt that they were entitled to the privileges and cultural diversions previously reserved for the aristocracy. the rise of the public concert. Middle-class men and women wanted to learn to play music themselves. They arranged lessons for themselves and their children. The social changes also affected the status of performers and composers.
