3.12 Music and the Enlightenment

Classical orchestra

violins 1 and 2, violas, cellos, basses, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 french horns, 2 timpani, and optionally 2 clarinets and/or trumpets.

When did the Classical style emerge?

After 1850

Purpose of art in Classical period

to please

Rococo

Light and frothy style

Divertimento

Rococo genre meant to entertain

Opera buffa

Italian comic opera portraying real people in actual life

Rosseau lead to the formation of...

opera buffa

Features of this time's music

Flexible rhythm and dynamics, more tone color, simple melodies, homophony

Main location of Classical style development

Vienna

Geographical center of the Enlightenment

France

Enlightenment-related philosophers

Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau