Shanghai Foreign Languages University
Wei shudao
Music is the expression of human thoughts, which is not inferior to literary and artistic works.
/kloc-In the middle of the 0/8th century, with the development of industrial revolution, science and technology and the impact of the French Revolution, profound changes have taken place in European society. Art is no longer the privilege of aristocrats, and the newly rising middle class has become an audience in theaters and concert halls. From then on, folk vivid instrumental music began to emerge in large numbers.
Compared with the "conscience" singing in the literary field, which denounces imagination and fickle emotions, music is more clear and easy to understand.
Listening to the works of several generations of masters in classical times, even ordinary people without music knowledge can calm their hearts and settle down.
The soul moves with music. The most striking feature of classicism is its approachable beauty, which is also the most important reason for its enduring and passing down from generation to generation.
In the era of Mozart and Haydn, the myth of the music industry is bound to have a loud sublimation. As the last master of classicism, Schubert didn't let us down. Inherited the simple music language of the classical period and the songs close to the people. The girl from Moulin Rouge (translated again:
Many musical sketches, such as The Beautiful Mill Girl and Trout, are combined with other arts such as poetry, drama and painting to create artistic themes. His gorgeous transformation pushed classicism to the extreme and brought romanticism into a new era.
Romantic music period that began at the beginning of19th century, advocating subjective feelings and comprehensive art. Influenced by the background of the times, The Romantic Period's music is always full of patriotic feelings. Chopin's Polish dance music, for example, My People，My Country in Smecana. At the same time, The Romantic Period showed the fantasy of music. The contradiction between cruel reality and beautiful ideal is intertwined, and only fantasy is the final place of happiness. Because of this, the title music can be popular in the romantic period and become a masterpiece.
If classicism is printmaking, romanticism is splashing watercolor. Classicism advocates rationality. Elegance and nobility are based on rigor. "Everything born is always rational, eternal and true." Romanticism advocates sensibility and personal feelings. Gorgeous skills, exaggerated tone sandhi, melancholy and sentimental feelings. "
The disease of the century is depression, and musicians are more sensitive than ordinary people. They vent their hearts by writing and playing. Romantic style makes musicians' songs niche and becomes an encrypted story that only musicians can understand.
Classicism pursues nature. Classical music is music that exists for people to understand. It is a sonata form with abstract dialectical thinking. It is a spiritual shock from the superficial to the deep. Its clear emotional beginning makes it easy to grasp the main theme. Music in the classical period is a loud cry of musicians and a clear and elegant defense. Like an aggressive debater, like a philosopher's thoughtful brain. Classicism is the predecessor, tradition and past that romanticism should surpass. Romanticism made a new exploration on this basis, and at the same time got rid of the limitation of "rationality" on music format and form. Music is an emotional generate, an indescribable throb. Remove the shackles, I praise what I respect and regret what I have lost. Don't ask the world to know, just ask for a confidant. The core of romanticism is freedom. Free music can wander around with fantasy. At this point, the theory of dissimilarity is over.
And the same, really don't have to say more. The essence of music itself will never change. Music is the expression of people's feelings, but how different are the things that people feel? Life and death, loneliness, love, parting, gods, motherland, nature, hero, ruler. Happiness, sadness, pain, struggle, meditation, worship and prayer. The eternal theme changes only the expression and result. What's more, classical music itself is the predecessor of romanticism, and the similarities between them are self-evident.
The above is my humble opinion on the similarities and differences between classical music and romantic music.