The Enlightenment Times

During the Enlightenment times, music influenced much of what happened socially throughout Europe. The art designed by many artist were made to perfection and everything had to be precise. The men controlled everything and the women were limited to do certain things. Most of the composers were men and the most famous were men. These men created music that was advanced in many ways that one could not imagine. The Enlightenment changed the way life was run through music and art for a turn for the better.

When looking at the art during the enlightenment, one could see power in buildings and sculptures. The building constructed at this time period were developed with considerably large pilars that towards over people walking by. The entrances to these building had precision shown all over them. The gardens surrounding the homes had grass growing inside of other grass. The gardens all seem to squared up and  accurately done. The upper class wanted to have the biggest everything and beat everyone else at it. The paintings during the enlightenment time showed the difference between upper class and the incoming middle class. Before the enlightenment, there was no middle class. When the merchants starts to achieve money by selling goods, the upper class was losing money. The upper class had to figure out  what the merchants were doing that was right. The merchants made deals with the upper class and were able to become one of them. If one is compare painting of an upper class picture and a painting of a middle class picture one would say the middle class like to take risks. The upper class did not want to loose anything they treasured. The middle class was asking for more. The children of the middle class were able to come up with ideas that leaded to inventions or discovering more towards discovering science. Some pictures were able to show how science appeared and thought the world to think outside the box.

Music throughout the enlightenment brought new instruments that have never been heard of before. The harpsichord had already been invented but a softer instrument took over. The piano was introduced with a softer pattern for everyone's ears to listen to. Mozart was able to take the piano and compose music scripted magically. He was able to make more delicate sound yet still using the string instruments and woodwind instruments. One could differentiate the bass notes and the melody more clearer during the pieces of music created by Mozart. The sonata theme was form through the enlightenment. The sonata form starts out with a lively moving music then turns to a slower tense music and finishes off with a fast tempo song. The sonata was used mostly in the opera and symphonic music.

As one could tell, the enlightenment times was a time of people thinking in a broader. People were able to come up with ideas that benefited life for the future. The ideas and inventions made during this time period were able to help out many countries in the future. Many countries were able to develop democracy and bureaucracy. The enlightenment was one of the greatest moments in music and artistic history.