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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Re: That's the "Mozart was CLEVER...not deeply dramatic" view... posted by Karma16 on April 23, 2007 at 06:00:02:
(and I mean this in no deeply technical way) the "Classical Style" and the "Romantic Style". Haydn and Mozart are considered to be, in many views I've encountered, the END of a style: the height of Classical as a style in terms of form, rules and range of expression. Beethoven, with his stretching of the rules and forms (outright breaking them apart in his Late works), opened the door for many more adventurous uses of harmony, timing, orchestration and outright DRAMA in music as an art form. This would be taken up later by Liszt, Chopin and -- perhaps more than anyone -- Berlioz and Wagner in their music-dramas.The result of all this is that Mozart (and Haydn...even Bach) CAN appear "boring", since they are definitely constrained, stylistically, by their own "systems". Germany/Austria were VERY conservative in the 18th and 19th centuries, at least in terms of those who actually PAID for music to be written and performed. On the one hand, history says that there was awareness of "intellectual value" in the forms preferred -- which is TRUE...as far as it goes. OTOH, conservative is (by one definition) a very limiting world view that doesn't invite new voices into a conversation. We need only look back at Biber, for example, to see that the "brains were there to do more with the music", but popular opinion ruled the day.
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Follow Ups
- Agreed. What we've hit upon here is the distinction between... - SE 06:25:58 04/23/07 (2)
- Mozart "constrained by [his] own system"? - rbolaw 07:26:49 04/24/07 (1)
- I don't disagree with anything you said... - SE 10:06:46 04/24/07 (0)
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