1st Movement Of Beethoven’s Eight Symphony

In the 1st movement of Beethoven’s eight symphony, there are qualities of both the Classical and Romantic Period. First we will define the Classical and Romantic periods, then discuss the movement itself.

As defined in the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Music, Classical is a term which applied to music has vague rather than specific meaning. Music composition roughly between 1750 and 1830 (post-Baroque and pre-Romantic) which covers the development of the classical symphony and concert. Music of an orderly nature, with qualities of clarity and balance, and emphasizing formal beauty rather than emotional expression (which is not to say that emotion is lacking). Romanticism is defined as a term used to describe literature, written mainly in the two decades 1830-50, and applied to music written in the period 1830-1900. It is a vague term, for there are ’Romantic’ elements in all music of all ages. However, the composers generally classified as Romantic are of the period of Weber, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, Berlioz, Wagner, etc., in whose music emotional and picturesqu

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Then there is a long coda, and finally a reflection of the opening theme concludes the movement. The piece was more Baroque in style, very simplistic. Dynamically the piece was limited, there was a lack of contrabass throughout, and most lines being on the higher pitched string instruments. The latter portion was very scalar, and there was a harp like instrument added briefly, or perhaps it was a cello plucking. The end was anticlimactic, but expressive.

Frederick Artz defines the Romantic movement, He believes Romanticism thus represented the reaction of emotion against reason, of nature against artificiality of simplicity against the complex, and of faith against skepticism… It was not a philosophy but a sort of emotional religion, as nebulous as it was ardent. It penetrated sensitively into the psyche, into dreams and longings, into the unconscious and the mysterious, into those regions in which men sense intuitively rather than know by reasoning, The poet becomes a seer; he is wiser than he knows. His art is divinely inspired, Artist are a higher caste, not

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