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Music, Wednesday
“So, we’ve been spending a lot of time talking about folk music,” Atton said. He was at the front of the class, wearing his nice new leather gloves, looking like he hadn’t been mysteriously absent last week. Go figure. “But around the 1400s, Earthers got a little more pretentious about it. During the period known as the Renaissance, music got more complex. More instruments, more melodies at the same time, actual basslines. People started figuring out how to write all of this stuff down properly, too, so pieces could be played the same way everywhere else.”
He waved towards the instruments corner. It was absolutely packed with stuff. “A lot of the musical instruments we use on Earth today were more or less invented or refined in this period. People got weirder and more complicated with it. The style that resulted would come to be known as ‘classical music’, also known as pretentious stuff for stuffy people who can’t make it through a rock concert.”
What? What.
“The Renaissance ended in the 1600s, and gave way to Baroque, during which the modern idea of the musical ‘key’ was introduced. A key is basically a series of notes and pitches, named after whatever the first note in line is. We kind of touched on that a little during the chords lesson,” Atton said, waving a hand. “Baroque composers like Bach and Vivaldi made a name for themselves in this period, and they’re still frequently referenced today.”
He smacked the music player. “You might know this one. Four Seasons.”
"As the music started to be increasingly complex and multilayered, some composers started wanting to pare things down. They also worked toward much more restrictive notations, even to volume markers and how things should be played. It became much more structured. This led to what is properly called Classical music, because that's what the period in time was called." Honestly, Atton. "This is when we get composers like Beethoven." This is also when you get music named imaginative things like 'Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major'. Because apparently that's all you need to know about it." Classical composers were weird. What could you say?
"Eventually, they start to loosen up a bit more, and become more concerned with grand themes, myths and legends, and sweeping emotions, and you get the Romantic era," Lana continued. "Also a lot of them were very nationalistic and patriotic, so you have to deal with that. Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky is a good example of this style."
“If you’re wondering why we’re steamrolling through this, well, we’d need a whole semester to teach you guys the ins and outs of this particular brand of music,” said Atton, who had ignored any and all ‘honestly’s his co-teacher had sent his way, thank you. “But to give you more of a taste, we have a whole pack of info sheets of different composers here. Pick one, find something cool they made musically, and tell us about it next week.” He rolled his shoulders. (They still stung a little.) “The Romantic period was followed by the Modernist period, which dovetails right into what we call contemporary music. We’ll pick up on that actually interesting topic in a week or two. For now…”
He waved a hand.
“It’s time to practice some classical classic, I guess.”
Please don't all choose "Ride of the Valkyries".
He waved towards the instruments corner. It was absolutely packed with stuff. “A lot of the musical instruments we use on Earth today were more or less invented or refined in this period. People got weirder and more complicated with it. The style that resulted would come to be known as ‘classical music’, also known as pretentious stuff for stuffy people who can’t make it through a rock concert.”
What? What.
“The Renaissance ended in the 1600s, and gave way to Baroque, during which the modern idea of the musical ‘key’ was introduced. A key is basically a series of notes and pitches, named after whatever the first note in line is. We kind of touched on that a little during the chords lesson,” Atton said, waving a hand. “Baroque composers like Bach and Vivaldi made a name for themselves in this period, and they’re still frequently referenced today.”
He smacked the music player. “You might know this one. Four Seasons.”
"As the music started to be increasingly complex and multilayered, some composers started wanting to pare things down. They also worked toward much more restrictive notations, even to volume markers and how things should be played. It became much more structured. This led to what is properly called Classical music, because that's what the period in time was called." Honestly, Atton. "This is when we get composers like Beethoven." This is also when you get music named imaginative things like 'Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major'. Because apparently that's all you need to know about it." Classical composers were weird. What could you say?
"Eventually, they start to loosen up a bit more, and become more concerned with grand themes, myths and legends, and sweeping emotions, and you get the Romantic era," Lana continued. "Also a lot of them were very nationalistic and patriotic, so you have to deal with that. Night on Bald Mountain by Mussorgsky is a good example of this style."
“If you’re wondering why we’re steamrolling through this, well, we’d need a whole semester to teach you guys the ins and outs of this particular brand of music,” said Atton, who had ignored any and all ‘honestly’s his co-teacher had sent his way, thank you. “But to give you more of a taste, we have a whole pack of info sheets of different composers here. Pick one, find something cool they made musically, and tell us about it next week.” He rolled his shoulders. (They still stung a little.) “The Romantic period was followed by the Modernist period, which dovetails right into what we call contemporary music. We’ll pick up on that actually interesting topic in a week or two. For now…”
He waved a hand.
“It’s time to practice some classical classic, I guess.”
Please don't all choose "Ride of the Valkyries".
Instruments Corner
Re: Instruments Corner
And then set it back down again, standing and going over to the strings section. She hesitated a moment, then sat down in front of a harp and placed her fingers on the strings.
The music (La Falla's Spanish Dance) was halting and slow, riddled with mistakes. The music was new and unfamiliar, she was still struggling with learning this notation, and the harp was different than whatever she was used to. But beneath it, there was the musical fluency of a skill that had long laid dormant.