Classical period: Haydn's representative works "Symphony of Surprise" and "Serenade" are humorous, lively and light, and contain religious detachment. The main contributions to classical music are symphonies and quartets. Because he made great contributions to the formation and perfection of symphony genre, Franz Joseph Haydn
This is called "the father of symphony".
Mozart: The wedding of Figaro and the Magic Flute. Style: unparalleled sense of fluency and freedom. Contribution: further improved the genre of piano concerto and pushed the new form of quartet to the peak. Civil class * * *
Two. African music has a natural tendency of multi-voices. You can often see two structures of songs and instrumental music, some are polyphony and some are polyphony. Strong sense of rhythm.
Three. The special rhythm of Africa is the most important factor in African black music. The rhythm of African music is strong and unrestrained, complex and changeable. African music rhythm can be divided into free rhythm and fixed rhythm. The former has no clear and regular rhythm, and lamentations, hymns and ethnic religious historical songs in some areas belong to this category; The latter has a regular rhythm, and its rhythm structure can be embodied and emphasized by clapping hands, stamping feet and percussion instruments. The rhythm of African music has two forms: single-line and multi-line, and the rhythm of African music has rich and unique expressive force.
Asia. The melody of East Asian music is very rich, with pentatonic scales, various musical instruments, as well as various folk songs, operas, rap and dances. For example, Japanese gagaku music, Qin, Zheng and Sanweixian music absorbed from China's traditional music and then nationalized, Tang Le and country music from North Korea and, of course, colorful national music from China are all treasures of oriental music art..
The great difference between Latin American folk music and European folk music lies in its warm style, stirring atmosphere and dynamic rhythm. But at the same time with a touch of melancholy and sadness, but not sad. This is the feeling of homesickness and missing the motherland left by our ancestors. More than seven tones are used, and tone sandhi and tone sandhi are commonly used. The lyrics in the song are in Spanish and Portuguese. The melody is smooth and smooth, the vocal music is easy to sing, the timbre is soft and lyrical, the duet forms are diverse, and the harmony likes to use parallel third and sixth degrees. The rhythm is mostly 3/4 and 6/8 beats, emphasizing syncopation rhythm. Melody and accompaniment are often two kinds of rhythms. The beats alternate a lot. The paragraph structure is symmetrical and square, and European musical instruments are widely used, such as guitar, harp, accordion, Mandelin, saxophone, violin and flute. Guitar is one of the most important musical instruments. Guitar families have been formed all over Latin America, including small guitars such as Tipoli (three strings), Guadelo (four strings) and Chalango (five pairs of double strings) and guitars with raised backboards (a bass guitar). They are indispensable instruments in vocal music and instrumental music. Harp from Spain is also widely spread in Latin America. In Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, Paraguay, ... and become a real folk instrument.
The first segmented song in Europe. A segmented song is a lyric composed of a song and several poems, and the lyrics often rhyme. This is called segmented song structure, which is very common now.
Second, the scale is diversified. Their children's songs often use two or three tones, and there are many pentatonic scales, but the seven-tone scale is the main one. The pentatonic scale is not unique to China. Of course, pentatonic scale is its main feature in China, but it is also pentatonic scale in Ireland, pentatonic scale in Scotland, pentatonic scale in Hungary and many others. But in most cases, Europeans are still dominated by seven tones.