What is the classical era of music known for?

The Classical period was known as the Age of Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason. The era spanned about seventy years (1750-1820), but in its short duration, musical practices began that have influenced music ever since. Classical period music is by far the most common Western music known today.

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What instrument opens The Rite of Spring?

bassoon In the Introduction we hear the coming of spring. A bassoon starts all by itself on a very high note. Gradually other instruments join in until it sounds like the swarming of insects and other spring noises. What is the melody of The Rite of Spring? "The dissonance of the 'Augurs' chord is naked, brutal and repeated with insistence unprecedented in art-music before the Rite." (Hill) There is no melody. Rather, the chord is repeated, drum-like, 212 times in the first half of the movement.

Moreover, what are the 5 characteristics of the rite of spring?

Instrumentation: 5 flutes (2 doubling on piccolo), 5 oboes (2 doubling on English horn), 5 clarinets, 5 bassoons; 8 horns, 5trumpets, 3 trombones, 2 tubas; strings; percussion. What kind of music is rite of spring? Analysts have noted in the score a significant grounding in Russian folk music, a relationship Stravinsky tended to deny. Regarded as among the first modernist works, the music influenced many of the 20th-century's leading composers and is one of the most recorded works in the classical repertoire.

Moreover, how did the rite of spring influence music?

("Petrushka," his preceding ballet, had only gone part way.) In "The Rite of Spring" Stravinsky turned the musical hierarchy on its head. Rhythm (and meter) is elevated to king, with melody (mostly snippets and shards, turned this way and that, as a Cubist would an object) and harmony (bi-tonal) in service to it.