Question

According to the Age of Revolution tab, who were the Shakers, and what was one of their influences in this era of music?

Answer 1

1. According to the Age of Revolution tab, who were the Shakers, and what was one of their influences in this era of music?
The Shakers were a group of Utopian believers who were named after their ecstatic dancing, and speaking in tongues as a form of worship.
 Music and dance played a significant role in their worship as their songs, tunes and dances were inseparable forms of expressing joy, praise and union. They were connected to several reform movements i.e. Feminism, Pacifism and Isolationism. They became notable for their immense contributions to craftsmanship, buildings and village planning. This innovative social and religious movement stood firmly behind the principles of racial and gender equality during Americas Age of Revolution.

2. On the Age of Revolution tab, scroll to the bottom and click on the links about Beethoven’s birth and career. What city did Beethoven live in while composing some of his most famous works, including Eroica? How did he succeed where Mozart had failed? 
Beethoven was born on 16th Dec 1770 in Germany and died in Vienna, Austria. He was a German composer who is considered one of the most important figures in the history of music.
Beethoven lived in Vienna where he composed his works as a brilliant keyboard performer with a number of works in his credit. He lived in Vienna from 1792 to his death. His famous works, Eroica was composed in 1803 in Heligenstadf, a village one and a half hours from Vienna.

3. Who was Eroica originally dedicated to, and why did Beethoven repeal the dedication?
Eroica was originally dedicated to Napoleon Buonaparte while he as the first council. Beethoven had the highest self-esteem and compared him to the greatest consols of Rome. This time Buonaparte had declared himself emperor. Beethoven repealed his dedication saying Buonaparte was no more than a common mortal who indulged in his own ambition thinking of himself as a superior man.
4. What unique instrumentation change did Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 use that, according to the website, was a “radical definition of the form” of a symphony?
3 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 3 bassoons, 4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, timpani, crash cymbals, triangle, bass drum, strings and solo chorus.

4. At the top of the page, choose “Age of Revolution,” Age of Romanticism,” “Age of Emerging Modernism,” or “Age of Art and Ideology.” Then, choose three pins on the map that describe how music was evolving during that time in various places. Summarize the musical trends that were taking place in those three places at the same time. 

Age o Revolution
In this era vocal and instrumental music was written and performed in Europe
from 1400 to the medieval era to 1600. The music was influenced by the developments that defined the early modern period i.e. rise of humanistic thought, the growth of commerce and unifying o musical language with modern instruments i.e. violin, guitar, flute and keyboard used in the evolution of music.
Age of Romanticism
Music in the age of Western Classical music between the 18th and 19th Century was related to romanticism, the European literary and artistic movement that arose in the 2nd half of the 18th C. Music was more expressive and emotional, expanding to compose artistic, literally and philosophical themes.
Age of Emerging Modernism
This period marked development and change in the musical language at the turn of the 20th Century. There were new ways of organizing and approaching melodic, harmonic, sonic and rhythmic aspects of music.