Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Hardcoreness=Beethoven



Ok, so in my Music 101 class we were studying the Classical Era. I actually have to take the test like today...hmmm I should probably study...ANYWAY! We were studying Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. Mozart's awesome. A child prodigy who could play anything and could make up amazing music. Yeah. Haydn, very popular. Lived a long time and the French and Italians freakin stopped the war to commemorate his death!! Now that's respect. But really, I think Beethoven is the coolest.

His music was awesome but kind of rebellious for his time. He would push the players to play really loud and the music before then was not really meant to be played that loud. Concerts went from background music to performances. He might have done it because he was going deaf and couldn't hear as well, or he just thought it made a bigger impact when played fortississississississimo. I'm gonna go with the second option. Yeah, a lot of anger of being beaten as a child and from going deaf comes out in his music. Just listen to his 5th Symphony!



Yeah. It's freakin awesome. My personal favorite is the third movement, but no one hears it. Yeah. And then it goes straight into the 4th movement which is very VICTORIOUS!! It's like Beethoven is screaming

I'M DEAF AND I'M OK WITH IT!! SORT OF!!

Yup. Good stuff. Also, if you ever get a chance to watch Amadeus about Mozart, it is freakin awesome. His laugh in the movie is amazing.



Right on.

1 comment:

Elisabeth said...

his wig... is RIDICULOUS!