There are two major art forms of the lost culture. Performing arts and Visual arts. Now, one can argue forever which form is more profound in enlightening and raising the human soul. Being a musician myself, i have to say Music is the highest form of Art. Its the direct language of God.
We hear this, when we listen to the old european masters of Classical Music, we get a sense of ultimate glory, but also the opposite, ultimate despair.
Here are two examples form the great Ludwig van Beethoven, showing that dualism:
Glory
Despair
The classical age of music is commonly divided between the Baroque Era, the actual Classical Era (Wiener Klassik), and the Romantic Era, and the predecessor ages are rather obscure which is interesting, because we have this huge amount of musical literature of ca 300 years, but nothing substantial before that, and even of the remaining literature much manuscripts are lost, and we only have published first editions.
To this day this music is considered of the highest virtue, and one has to work deeply to understand and fully deliver this music. It is essentially a task for your whole life, as most old pianists age like fine wine, and delivered truly eternal performances, like music out of other spheres.
Now lets take the rabbit hole into consideration:
Composers like Mozart and Bach delivered not only music of the highest quality, but also quantity. While being stylistically different, they both excelled in every musical genre, from vocal to instrumental, and left a vast legacy behind, and every later composer is somehow influenced by these two. Bach was known for applying essential elements of nature in his music, like the "proportia divina", meaning that by 2/3 in the piece the culmination of the melodic and harmonic progression would happen.
Beethoven is considered the most important composer for the transition between the Classical and the Romantic Era. We see a great in shift in music traditions in the romantic time, as the form got shorter and the "Sonatenhaupsatzform" was more and more abandoned that meant, music got simpler, and this process was heavily intensified in the so called modern era of music, still going on to our time.
The classical era of music, like the architecture of the cathedrals and star forts, belong to the Old Realm, and the shift in the style of it, correlates to the timeframe of the reset, so here is a possible approach, to what might have occured:
The Baroque and partly classical age were pre Reset. Beethoven was the composer, living in the time of the transition from classical to romantic Era, that is the supposed time of the reset (1750-1850) . He actually lived through it, but went deaf during the events of the cataclysm/war/revolution. The romantic/modern era is post reset.
Let's back this up with a bit information about Beethoven and how his successors viewed him.
First of Beethoven is very distinct to Mozart and Bach, as he tried to outdo his predecessors very early on, in regards to technical mastery of the player, but was also considered, to be sometimes a bit rough and shocking.
But still every other composer after Beethoven, never got some things right, as he was a master in composing large 3-4 part pieces of the sonata form, essentially maintaining the pace and correlation of the contrasting thematic material. Even composers like Chopin, who scolded him for his roughness, and were more amazed of Bach and Mozart, could never repeat the feats he still possessed, and the romantic era devolved into what we know as "virtuosity" or technical showmanship. Meaning the divine element of music, got more and more replaced by superficiality and a drill mentality.
But that process happened slowly and the early and mid romantic is full of suffering pieces, longing for a past age, many pieces by Chopin reflect this.
Modern history says it was about the fall of the polish state in the official timeline, but these pieces reflect something much grander, and the hope to restore, what was lost, listen to the famous g-minor ballade, according to old lore, the saddest key.
There is so much to recover about our glorious lost culture, when you listen to classical music, so i like to conclude with the great eternal masterpiece of Mozart, pls enjoy:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lhjszZNZvk
We hear this, when we listen to the old european masters of Classical Music, we get a sense of ultimate glory, but also the opposite, ultimate despair.
Here are two examples form the great Ludwig van Beethoven, showing that dualism:
Glory
Despair
The classical age of music is commonly divided between the Baroque Era, the actual Classical Era (Wiener Klassik), and the Romantic Era, and the predecessor ages are rather obscure which is interesting, because we have this huge amount of musical literature of ca 300 years, but nothing substantial before that, and even of the remaining literature much manuscripts are lost, and we only have published first editions.
To this day this music is considered of the highest virtue, and one has to work deeply to understand and fully deliver this music. It is essentially a task for your whole life, as most old pianists age like fine wine, and delivered truly eternal performances, like music out of other spheres.
Now lets take the rabbit hole into consideration:
Composers like Mozart and Bach delivered not only music of the highest quality, but also quantity. While being stylistically different, they both excelled in every musical genre, from vocal to instrumental, and left a vast legacy behind, and every later composer is somehow influenced by these two. Bach was known for applying essential elements of nature in his music, like the "proportia divina", meaning that by 2/3 in the piece the culmination of the melodic and harmonic progression would happen.
Beethoven is considered the most important composer for the transition between the Classical and the Romantic Era. We see a great in shift in music traditions in the romantic time, as the form got shorter and the "Sonatenhaupsatzform" was more and more abandoned that meant, music got simpler, and this process was heavily intensified in the so called modern era of music, still going on to our time.
The classical era of music, like the architecture of the cathedrals and star forts, belong to the Old Realm, and the shift in the style of it, correlates to the timeframe of the reset, so here is a possible approach, to what might have occured:
The Baroque and partly classical age were pre Reset. Beethoven was the composer, living in the time of the transition from classical to romantic Era, that is the supposed time of the reset (1750-1850) . He actually lived through it, but went deaf during the events of the cataclysm/war/revolution. The romantic/modern era is post reset.
Let's back this up with a bit information about Beethoven and how his successors viewed him.
First of Beethoven is very distinct to Mozart and Bach, as he tried to outdo his predecessors very early on, in regards to technical mastery of the player, but was also considered, to be sometimes a bit rough and shocking.
But still every other composer after Beethoven, never got some things right, as he was a master in composing large 3-4 part pieces of the sonata form, essentially maintaining the pace and correlation of the contrasting thematic material. Even composers like Chopin, who scolded him for his roughness, and were more amazed of Bach and Mozart, could never repeat the feats he still possessed, and the romantic era devolved into what we know as "virtuosity" or technical showmanship. Meaning the divine element of music, got more and more replaced by superficiality and a drill mentality.
But that process happened slowly and the early and mid romantic is full of suffering pieces, longing for a past age, many pieces by Chopin reflect this.
Modern history says it was about the fall of the polish state in the official timeline, but these pieces reflect something much grander, and the hope to restore, what was lost, listen to the famous g-minor ballade, according to old lore, the saddest key.
There is so much to recover about our glorious lost culture, when you listen to classical music, so i like to conclude with the great eternal masterpiece of Mozart, pls enjoy:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lhjszZNZvk
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