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Bell Ringer. Berry Gordy started out with how much money for his record company? How much money did he end with?. Chapter 2. Section 2.5 Classical Music Cultures. Classical Music Culture. What comes to mind when you think of classical music?

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Bell Ringer

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  1. Bell Ringer • Berry Gordy started out with how much money for his record company? • How much money did he end with?

  2. Chapter 2 Section 2.5 Classical Music Cultures

  3. Classical Music Culture • What comes to mind when you think of classical music? • Maybe sophisticated, formal, complex, opera, symphonies • Regardless of what you think of, you still associate classical music with a different kind of culture • This makes it different from traditional and popular music

  4. Classical Music • Many different cultures have produced classical music throughout different historical periods. • For example, Mexico is strong for its traditional music. • Mariachi music has a strong tradition in Mexico but classical music also bloomed in Mexico

  5. Classical Music • Composers such as Manuel Maria Ponce (1882-1948) and Carlos Chavez (1899-1978) are recognized in Mexico as important to the classical music world.

  6. Classical History • Many composers depended on patronage to survive. • Patrons included kings, members of nobility, and sometimes wealthy church leaders. • Composers were contract employees. • Examples of classical composers included Franz Joseph Haydn and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  7. The Emerging Middle Class • As the classical period advanced, more people made more money. • As the middle class advanced, they wanted to share the cultural entertainments of the elite class. • These included music, theatre, and literature. • Some merchants enrolled their children in music lessons.

  8. Emerging Middle Class • Sometimes composers wrote music specifically for amateur musicians. • They used familiar folk and popular tunes as themes for their classical symphonies. • Mozart and Haydn wrote dance music for public balls.

  9. Chamber Music • Chamber Music- music written during the classical period for small ensembles • This music was not played for large concert halls, but in rooms or chambers. • Most of these concerts took place in private homes for social gatherings and at parties. • This music provided entertainment for nobility, clergy and the arising middle class.

  10. Chamber Music

  11. Bell Ringer 9/19/12 • Name two classical composers in Mexico.

  12. Listening • Quintet for Clarinet and Strings in A Major • This is a good example of theme and variation invented by Mozart. • Try to discover how the variation changes from the original theme

  13. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • 1756-1791 • He was a child prodigy at 8 years old. • He became famous for his harpsichord skills when he was just 8 years old. • He composed his first symphony at 8 and his first opera at age 11. • Mozart wrote sacred works, piano works, orchestral works, vocal music, chamber music, concertos, and operas. • Even though he was famous in his day, he died at age 35 in poverty.

  14. Billboard 2012 • Taylor Swift- We Are Never Getting Back Together (# 1) • Maroon 5- One More Night (# 2) • Flo Rida- Whistle (#3) • fun. – Some Nights (#4) • Ellie Gouding- Lights (#5)

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