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    Classical Music: Contrast With Pop Music and Jazz

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    Classical music uses a lighter texture than Baroque music with a more sophisticated use of musical form and themes. It is mainly homophonic with a clear melody over chordal accompaniment. The classical orchestra includes string, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments. Vocal music in the classical period includes sopranos, altos, tenors and basses without amplification. Different soprano voice types include dramatic, coloratura, soubrette and lyric sopranos suited to different operatic roles.

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    Classical music uses a lighter texture than Baroque music with a more sophisticated use of musical form and themes. It is mainly homophonic with a clear melody over chordal accompaniment. The classical orchestra includes string, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments. Vocal music in the classical period includes sopranos, altos, tenors and basses without amplification. Different soprano voice types include dramatic, coloratura, soubrette and lyric sopranos suited to different operatic roles.

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    Classical music uses a lighter texture than Baroque music with a more sophisticated use of musical form and themes. It is mainly homophonic with a clear melody over chordal accompaniment. The classical orchestra includes string, woodwind, brass and percussion instruments. Vocal music in the classical period includes sopranos, altos, tenors and basses without amplification. Different soprano voice types include dramatic, coloratura, soubrette and lyric sopranos suited to different operatic roles.

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    Classical music

     classical music has a lighter, clearer texture than Baroque music, but a more sophisticated use of form. It is
    mainly homophonic, using a clear melody line over a subordinate chordal accompaniment.
     In the classical period, the theme consists of phrases with contrasting melodic figures and rhythms.

    Contrast with pop music and jazz


     Although people sometimes think of classical music as the opposite of pop music, it can still be very popular.
    Like all kinds of music, classical music can be in many different moods: happy, sad, scary, peaceful,
    thoughtful, simple etc. Mozart wrote his serenades and divertimentos to entertain people at parties. Classical
    pieces of music can be quite short, but they can also be very long, like a big, musical story. A symphony by
    Mahler or Shostakovich can last for nearly an hour, and an opera is a whole evening’s entertainment.
     Classical music is also different from jazz because true jazz is improvised. However, the differences are not
    always obvious. Classical music has often been inspired by jazz, and jazz by classical music. George
    Gershwin wrote music which is both jazz and classical. Classical music, too, can be improvised. The great
    composers Bach, Mozart and Beethoven often improvised long pieces of music on the organ, harpsichord or
    piano. Sometimes they wrote these improvisations down. They were, in effect, compositions which were
    composed in one go.

    Instruments used
     Classical music can be for instruments or for the voice.
     The symphony orchestra is the most common group of instruments for the playing of classical music.
     It has four families of instruments:
    ◦ the string instruments which include the violins, violas, cellos and piano
    ◦ the woodwind instruments which include flutes, oboes,clarinets and bassoons together with related
    instruments of different sizes
    ◦ the brass instruments which includes trumpet, trombone, tuba and French horn, and percussion
    instruments which nearly always includes timpani as well as many other possible instruments which
    are hit or shaken.
    The Voice
     Singers may be sopranos, altos, tenors or basses, depending on their vocal range. Their voices are not
    amplified. Opera singers, in particular, have to develop very powerful voices which will be heard over the
    orchestra and project right to the back of an opera house.
    Soprano
     A soprano is a female singer with a high voice.
    different kinds of soprano voices:
     A dramatic soprano will sing big, dramatic roles such as Aida in Verdi's opera Aida.
     A coloratura soprano will have a light voice which can bounce up to very high notes (the Queen of the Night
    in Mozart’s Magic Flute goes up to top F (2 ½ octaves above middle C).
     A soubrette is usually the maid or a young girl who flirts.
     A lyric soprano role needs a beautiful smooth voice, e.g. Mimi in Puccini's La Boheme.
     A heavy dramatic soprano is needed in many of Wagner's operas, e.g. Isolde in Tristan und Isolde or
    Brunnhilde in Der Ring des Nibelungen.
    Alto
     someone who sings lower than a soprano. Usually females with lower voices are called contraltos. A male alto
    is a man who sings in a special way called falsetto.

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