Music

I am one of the four people in class that doesn’t know anything about music. At a young age I was forced to play the piano but would often hide outside until the piano teacher went away. My parents weren’t too happy and I would get grounded for a little bit but I just didn’t like to play the piano. This is why I’m writing about music so I can learn a little bit more because I didn’t take advantage of it when I was young. I really wasn’t a fan of the middle age music that we listened too. The monophonic stuff just sounded creep to me. One we got into the Baroque classical and romantic music then I enjoyed listening to it.

Vivaldi and Bach really revolutionized the music during the time period. Renaissance still just sounded like chanting but the new baroque music actually sounded like it had an intellectual sound to it. Then we started talking about Haydn and Mozart and the symphonies that I enjoyed listening to. I enjoyed learning about the sonata method as well. It seemed like it was a mathematical equation and that is how and why they wrote so many symphonies. The operas during that time period I wasn’t interested in at all. Verdi and Wagner were probably just as much genius in their music but I’m just not a fan.