On The Horn Style And Age Influence Of The Classical Period

Advocate tone in western music is classical music and pure instrumentalmusic. At this time of the music is considered to be in the second halfof the18th century to the early19th century music. It is roughly dividedinto: the "classical period" before and "Vienna classical” musicIt was not until the classical period appeared a simple natural horn,horn18th century began from the footprint of the hunting horn, a naturalhorn "hook", it also become broad range, sound become soft, compared withprevious natural horn the number the number of smaller, also attached atuning ring header, so that more convenient players to play in the melody.In this period, a lot of music and practice to promote the developmentof the application of the horn in the band. In the classical period inpractical use, the horn was thought to be a difficult to learn MusicalInstruments, this is mainly related to he the main body of the windingstructure. Long and spiral pipe shaft makes the range of a horn is broad,harmonic relationship, at the same time can also lead to difficult tocontrol the breath of correct transform unfavorable to the pitch, ifcoupled with chromatic structure of music would play harder, so as a hornplayer in this period, in order to better embody the new characteristicsof classicism period, constantly improve the skills in work and solvetechnical difficulties is also very important.The classical period of horn works creators are Haydn, Mozart andBeethoven. They created many excellent horn works not only, also promotedthe horn the manufacture and development of Musical Instruments, make itsconstantly updated follow music trend of The Times and progress, and theyapply the horn in a wide variety of music genre of the perfect, and perfectthe various genres of music structure, make classical music moreexpressive and artistic appeal. Haydn with his "free" sweet personal feelings with the period of thehorn music with youthful vitality; Mozart in his "free artist" identitymakes the period of the horn music skills more rich; While Beethoven withhis temperament of "hero" to characterize the inherent artisticexpression of horn. Thus see their horn music practice had a profoundimpact on Europe and the world music, also in the erect standing milestonein the history of music.