At school, we learn about four key periods of music history.
Baroque, Classical, Romantic and 20th Century
- Carry out some research and find out about one composer from one of the key periods of music history.
- Listen to their most famous pieces of music.
- Did you like the piece of music or not? What did you like/what didn’t you like?
- Is there another composer from the same time period who created similar music?
Teach your family about the composer-you could create a PowerPoint presentation, a leaflet, a poster or a fact file!
Include your favourite facts and your thoughts on their most famous piece of music below!
Happy listening!
Miss Gorick and Mrs Healy 🙂
The composer I have chosen is Beethoven. He is from the section classical because his music is very nice and relaxing.I like his music because I liked how how his orchestra went from high to low pitch and his music is very exiting. There is another famous composer that lived in his time period and that person was mozart. It was said that Beethoven and mozart met in mozart’s apartment in vienna and yes they create the same type of music.A fun fact about Beethoven is that before he went out to compose he dipped his head in cold water and also he died during a thunderstorm at the age of 56.
Great observation Javier.
The composer I have chosen is Beethoven. He is from the section classical because his music is very nice and relaxing.I like his music because I liked how his orchestra went from high to low pitch and his music is very exiting. There is another famous composer that lived in his time period and that person was mozart. It was said that Beethoven and mozart met in mozart’s apartment in vienna and yes they create the same type of music.A fun fact about Beethoven is that before he went out to compose he dipped his head in cold water and also he died during a thunderstorm at the age of 56.
Johanne Chrysostomus Wolfgagus Theophilus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (often known as just Mozart) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period. He was born in Salzburg, Austria on the 27th of January 1756 and sadly died on the 5th of December 1791 at the young age of 35 due to a terrible disease called “sever miliary fever.”
Some of his most famous pieces were “Serenade No. 13” and “Symphony No. 40, ” I personally really like his pieces. They all are very unique and excusite unlike most other pieces. They all stand out comparing to other composers.
I chose to listen to a piece of classical music by Mozart .I really liked this piece of music because it was really calm and all of a sudden it goes really loud and busy! Beethoven was a classical music composer that lived around the same time as Mozart. Beethoven composed when he was thought to be completely deaf!! He started developing this in his twenties.
A fact about mozart is that he could listen to music just once and then write it down from memory without any mistakes.
My favourite composer ever, is John Williams. He still makes music to around this day, and has made some way back. His music is in some famous, and some of my favourite, movies ever, like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Jaws, Jurassic Park, Harry Potter, home alone, superman, and many more. Widely regarded as one of the greatest film composers of all time, he has composed some of the most popular, recognizable, and critically acclaimed film scores in cinematic history in a career spanning over six decades! He is also a conductor and pianist. Williams has won 25 Grammy Awards, seven British Academy Film Awards, five Academy Awards, and four Golden Globe Awards. Overall, he’s won 52 Academy Award nominations, making him the second most nominated individual after Walt Disney.
All his pieces are great, it’s really hard to decide which is my favourite, he’s made so many. He’s been working from 1952 – 2019. I’d have to say, the pieces he made in Indiana Jones, Harry Potter and Star Wars are my favourite pieces. The main themes from all of them are perfect! Star Wars is his most famous piece of music, and I’m not surprised. My favourite piece from there would be the ‘Imperial March’ and ‘Duel of Fates’.
I would recommend him no doubt. I am unsure if he is dead or not, as the internet does have false information. I hope you are all interested into listening to him now, and I wish the best to all.
I like the composer Mozart and my favourite piece of music is The Magic Flute because it is calm and when i hear it it makes me think that i am playing the flute or that i am watching the piece of music at an opera.
I am mostly fan of Mozart!
Reading your comments has made me feel very calm.
I chose a piece from Alexander Dargomyzhsky ‘баба яга’.
This is the piece of music I am currently learning so I thought it would be good to write about this.
This song is based in the G Minor scale.
It start off quietly but then shocks you when the right hand comes in loud. It has a lovely melody and I really like the song.
The composer (Alexander Dargomyzhsky) was a 19th century Russian composer. His last opera, The Stone Guest, is his most famous work, known as a pioneering effort in melodic recitative.
He was born in 1813 and died in 1869.
I’m enjoying reading all your comments. Hope you are all safe and well.
At the time I’m reading this (about midday on Friday 27th March) everyone’s chosen a composer from the Classical period.
My favourite composers are generally from the Romantic period- people like Chopin and Rachmaninoff. Or from the 20th Century- composers like Ravel or Gershwin -you may want to have a listen to some of their music. A good resource is the BBC’s ‘Ten Pieces’ which has loads of videos and information on a lot of composers.
Hello Mr Rees!
How are you coping?
I chose the piece Moonlight sonata by Beethoven.
This song is very clam at the beginning but by the end of the song it turns really fast and dramatic.
This song is based on the C Sharp minor scale.
Beethoven is a German composer and pianist. He was a big part of the transaction between the classical and romantic eras in classical music and is considered one of the best composers in Europe.
Born 1770, died 1827
I really like all composers but if I had to picket would be George Gershwin.My favourite song composed by him was’Rhapsody in Blue’. The idea for Rhapsody in Blue came to him while travelling on a train.
He poured the rhythms and noise of the modern city (including a clattering train) and its musical styles into his new piece.
At the time Jazz and Blues, created by African Americans in the southern states of America, were taking New York by storm.
So Gershwin created a patchwork of exciting jazz-influenced melodies and moods for his rhapsody.
Born: 1898
Died: 1937
Nationality: American
FUN FACT!:
Growing up in New York City, George Gershwin’s musical gift became clear when he began to play a piano that had been bought for his older brother, Ira.
Good choice Ariella!
I reasearched a composer from each time period and listened to one of their most famous piece but my Favourite was Eine Kleine Nachtmusik from Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart who was a classical composer during the classical era around 1750 to 1820.
I also really enjoyed Brandenburg Concertos by Johann Sebastian Bach which is music from the baroque era.????
Hello Mr Rees, Miss Healy and Miss Gorick!
my composer is Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Tchaikovsky composed classical and romantic pieces of music for example Swan Lake. I love his music because I went to see many of his ballets and danced to the music in and out of dance class it was all I ever did. Now when I listen to his music it brings back so many memories and mkes me want to dance.
Nina
That’s so lovely to hear Nina!
One of my favourite piece of music is Nocturne Op.9 No.2, by Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin. It is from the Romantic time period. Chopin, was born in Warsaw, Poland, 1st of March 1810. He died due to poor health conditions 17th October 1849, in Paris, France – aged 39.
Classical/20th Century Music is often brash orchestral/symphonic pieces and in very strong contrast to the more softer and emotional music of the Romantic Period.
I like this piece as it is very soothing and it gives me a nice feeling as it is very beautiful.
I chose the piece “Flight of the Bumblebee” by Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov. I enjoyed this piece because it put me in a very bubbly mood, since it seemed so fast and playful. He was born on 18th March 1844. He was a Russian composer and a member of a group known as, “The Five”.
Nikolai died from a heart attack when he was 64.
Baroque 1600-1750
The four seasons (spring)
Vivaldi
I liked it because of its rhythm and how the same notes were repeated but either higher or lower. These notes kind of made up a chorus and I liked how Vivaldi ends the composition.
I also listened to Mozart and Bach but I prefer this piece of music.