Mozart's Enlightenment Music

Mozart has composed many songs throughout his lifetime. When examining his songs I thought very well what song I wanted to pick. I remembered I played this song in high school on my clarinet with a group of my friends. The song was called the Clarinet Quintet. The song that is played in the video is the fourth movement of the piece. The sentence I chose occurs from the 0:00 to 0:55. The song starts out with the clarinets playing in harmony and having a smooth texture. Harmonic tension then goes on throughout the first phrase. Little by little more and more clarinets come in and completes the quintet. The first phrase ends on a perfect authentic cadence. The second phrase of the song repeats exactly like the first phrase. The feeling of joy and happiness is heard during this phrase. As the song moves along, the allegro becomes common. The third phrase becomes completely different as the song seems to become more mellow and long. There is less staccato as the clarinets take their own parts during the song. As this phrase ends on the half cadence, the songs goes back to the first phrase of the song and plays the same phrase again. When the phrase ends on the perfect authentic cadence, it goes back to the third phrase and is completely the same. Finally to the sixth phrase, it is exactly the same as the first phrase. Finally the whole period comes to an end and is the finish to the final part of the song, which is also called a parallel interrupted period. During the whole phrase there is much repetition. In fact, there is much repetition throughout the whole song. If a person continues to listen to the rest of the song, the next period has a different sentence but still much repetition.

This song clearly shows the enlightenment by the perfection of the music. Mozart's staccatos bring his perfection to reality. In the enlightenment, perfection was key to making houses and making gardens. Everything had to be symmetrical and well placed so the people visiting these house would be impressed. When Mozart leads the clarinets to their own parts, those clarinets are able to come back and complete a phrase. The melody of the sentence is simple but still has an importance. Just as the inventions made throughout the enlightenment, they were also simple but still were important to the enlightenment. It is amazing that one instrument can make up many different orchestrational sounds. The clarinet has the capacity to sound beautifully by having the ability to play different notes up and down the register. Mozart has been able to expand the clarinets ability to perform in music in way that the enlightenment was able to also expand. The enlightenment was the time when ideas expanded and made a big influence in the world for the future.