Classical Period (1 janv. 1750 – 1 janv. 1825)

Description:

- Expansion of form (sonata influence, development of themes);
large-scale formal orgnizations
Haydn -> Mozart -> Beethoven

- Courts pay some bills/secular funding (consider Haydn through Beethoven)

- Standard classical romantic orchestra (SCRO) end of the 18th century
2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2, clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 trumpets,
2 timpani and five-part strings (choral parts usually appear above strings in the score)

– orchestral color and importance of instrumental music; for some SCRO can also include 2 horns and trombones. Also Austrian church trio

- More dynamics and articulation begin to appear in the score

- Related keys at first:
- compact, diatonic melodies
- structured harmony: tonic, dominant, subdominant
- diatonic more than chromatic
- chords in triadic form and occasionally 7th chords

- Later with Schubert and Beethoven, around 1804:
- sudden juxtapositions/shifts to unrelated keys
- dissonance for harmonic color
- expansion of chordal vocabulary including augmented 6th chords
Ex. Eroica them E-flat chord outline then C#!

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