Klarinet Archive - Posting 000334.txt from 1998/06

From: <Maestro645@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Serious music and entertainment
Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 11:33:58 -0400

In a message dated 6/9/98, Lee Hickling wrote:
> 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..
>
>

I believe Mozart is Classical. That is what I have been taught all my life.
His music has the same kind of feel as Haydn, in some ways, and Haydn was also
classical. Bach is pure Baroque. He, of course, was the master of polyphony,
and polyhony was used extensively in the Baroque era, to name one example.
Basso continuo was used in Baroque times, and it disappeared in the Classical
era, although I recall a few EARLY classical forms use Basso continuo, but
still the style was much more classical than Baroque.
Chris Hoffman

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