Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему Kinds of Music (11 класс)

long tradition of ‘serious’ music from the European Middle Ages to the present
popular music is characterized by lightly romantic or sentimental melodies

churches added a second voice, producing a kind of harmony
music for four or more voices had appeared (by 1400)
music both for church and for the courts of kings and nobles was highly developed (by 1600)
musical plays gradually developed into opera and ballet
polyphonic (many-voiced) style of music was produced

pieces for the organ as well as instrumental music (the six Brandenburg Concertos)
George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)
born in Germany, though spent most of his life in England. His greatest works – oratorios and dramatic works

music such as the piano trio. His contributions to musical form have earned him the epithets "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
composed from the age of five and performed before European royalty. He composed over 600 works

of over six hundred secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music
Robert Schumann (1810 – 1856)
a German composer and influential music critic. He composed works for piano and orchestra; many Lieder (songs for voice and piano); four symphonies; an opera; and other orchestral, choral, and chamber works

A virtuoso pianist, he premiered many of his own works
Frederic Chopin (1810 –1849)
a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic era who wrote primarily for the solo
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 – 1893)
a Russian composer whose works included symphonies, concertos, operas, ballets, chamber music, and a choral setting of the Russian Orthodox Divine Liturgy

Brahms

Chopin

Tchaikovsky

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non-traditional scales and chromaticism influenced many composers who followed
Maurice Ravel (1875 – 1937)
a French composer known especially for his melodies, masterful orchestration, richly evocative harmonies and inventive instrumental textures and effects
Igor Stravinsky (1882 – 1971)
a Russian composer, pianist and conductor. He first achieved international fame with three ballets commissioned by the impresario Sergei Diaghilev and first performed in Paris by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes: The Firebird (1910), Petrushka (1911) and The Rite of Spring (1913)

Debussy

Ravel

Stravinsky

The ballet Peer Gynt (1985–1987); the Third (1981), Fourth (1984), and Fifth (1988) Symphonies; the Viola (1985) and 1st Cello (1985–1986) Concertos, etc
Béla (Viktor János) Bartók (1881 – 1945)
a Hungarian composer and pianist. He was one of the founders of ethnomusicology
George Gershwin (1898 – J1937)
an American composer and pianist. Among his best known works are the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), as well as the opera Porgy and Bess (1935)

Schnittke

Bartók

Gershwin

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Bach

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