Klarinet Archive - Posting 000325.txt from 1998/06

From: Shouryu Nohe <jnohe@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Serious music and entertainment
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 01:58:45 -0400

On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Lee Hickling wrote:
> and I think he's right. I'm bothered too. Beethoven is classical. Handel
> and Mozart are not. They're baroque. Tschaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov are
> not. They're romantic. Bach, of course, is uncategorizable. Stravinsky is
> not classical. He's an early modernist. And so on. But "periods" and dates
> are unreliable, because Borodin is clearly a romantic, born out of his time..

Actually, Mozart is Classical. Bach and Handel are Baroque (most easily
noted by the progressions and massive use of ornamentations). The
classical period was a response by simplification - compare Mozart's Sym.
no. 40 and a Brandenburg - the Mozart is VERY simplistic. The Classical
period is also characterized by extensive use of sonata allegro form and
the sonata cycle in general (almost to a ludicrous extent). Haydn, Mozart
and Beethoven were Classical, and while Berlioz was about during this
time, his music is very Romantic (either that, or it was just too French
to be standard classical ^_^ )...Then Mendohlsonn (sp) would show up and
begin a transitory period into the Romantic.

Or so says my music lit prof. ^_^
(I got an A! Woo!)

Shouryu Nohe
Professor of SCSM102, New Mexico State Univ.
http://web.nmsu.edu/~jnohe; ICQ 6771552
Coffee Drinker, Musician, Otaku, Jesus Freak, Admirer of Women
(Not necessarily in that order)
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