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Instruments of the Orchestra Part three: The Classical Symphony Classical Period of music • Approximately 1750-1820 • The time of Mozart and Beethoven • The Symphony became established as a fourmovement piece of music. • I. Fast • II. Slow • III. Dance-like • IV. Fast or Faster • (These are the speeds of the music, the tempo) First Movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony (1804-1808) • A movement in a symphony is like a chapter in a book. • It can generally stand alone, or at least gives a good stopping place • But it’s pretty long. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu5Vms vNFDQ • Sonata form (Exposition, Development, Recapitulation) Second Movement (Beethoven 5) • • • • Slow Sometimes a “Theme and Variations” This one gives the theme in the cellos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQIV WhKhwPA Third movement • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AEuC Xi185Q • A lively dance, such as the minuet • A contrasting section, called the trio, is placed in the middle, giving it an A-B-A form • This one is Mozart’s “A Little Night Music” (Eine kleine Nachtmusik) Fourth Movement, fast • Sometimes it’s called “presto” because it goes so fast. • This is by Tchaikovsky (actually a composer from the Romantic Era) • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLHjeekdNU Review for Quiz: • • • • Instruments of the orchestra by family WW B S P Movements of a classical symphony F S D F