tchaikovsky general info

tchaikovsky

• - romantic composer
• - imaginative orchestration/ used classical structure like sonata form but expanded on them/ used unexpected keys

romantic music

• - changes in texture]
• - long expansive melodies with wide range/leaps, chromatisism, unusual modulation
• - orchestras were big with wide verity of instruments
• -program music, music that tells a story

romeo and juliet overture

• - in modified sonata form
• - fantasy overture (indulge our imaginations)
• -b minor
• - common time
• - has intro and coda
• - it is a concert overture, played in concert hall and is the music preceeding the opera
• - example of program music
• - musical themes related to characters and events in the play (FL, strife, and love)
• - intro = FL expo = strife and love dev = strife and FL recap = all
• - full symphony orch

sonata form

• has an:
• Expo: we hear all themes for first time. themes are divided into to subjects A and B. themes in subject A are in the tonic and themes in B are in the dominant
• Dev: develops the ideas from the expo and texture may change and modulations occur
• Recap: restates the music in the expo and all themes are heard in the tonic