E's Music Classroom: Musickit, 2007). The exposition tends to be less resolved, atonal, and discordant in sound. The form was used to create a more open structure than the Baroque fugues or rondeau forms.
What types of works commonly use this form? Sonatas (obviously) symphonies, and string quartets all make use of the three-part sonata form, although some have more elaborate variations than others, depending on the length of the piece.
Mozart
Wolfgang a. Mozart was a master of virtually every form he embraced as a composer. His symphonies and sonatas paved the way for Classical music, as he adopted the innovations of Hayden in the symphony form and made these innovations more flexible and expressive. He was also a master of the operatic form in comic works such as "The Marriage of Figaro" as well as dramatic works like "Don Giovanni." He moved opera away from the more somber themes of the earlier era, and made the operatic stage more realistic and passionate in its musical depiction of human emotions. He showed that comic opera could be great art and great music. He was also a master performer and created many small-scale works for chamber orchestras as well as symphonies. He also wrote many great religious works, such as his famous masses.
Mozart is often seen as a bridge between the Baroque and the Classical eras: "Examples of advanced and unusual writing is found both...
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The geniuses strained the boundaries of the characteristic styles more evidently and more quickly than those of their contemporaries to bring about such seismic changes. Works Cited Baroque: Style." The Essentials of Music. 23 Apr 2008. http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/ Classical: Style." The Essentials of Music. 23 Apr 2008. http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/ Baroque: Musical Context." The Essentials of Music. 23 Apr 2008. http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/ Classical: Musical Context." The Essentials of Music. 23 Apr 2008. http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/ Ludwig van Beethoven." The Columbia Encyclopedia.
music and their relationship to either the Baroque or Classical Period. The two pieces of music to be analyzed are Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 by Karl Munchinger performed by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra and Jeffery Tate's Allegro con brio performed by the English Chamber Orchestra. A brief discussion of the comparison of the two periods of music will be presented to help contextualize the argument before describing both
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