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Chamber music, music composed for small ensembles of instrumentalists. It often permits no more than one player to a part and usually dispenses with a conductor. Chamber music can be a combination of stringed or wind instruments, often with a keyboard, and music for voices with or without accompaniment.
Chamber music - Structures, Instruments, Ensembles: A major distinction must be drawn between the prevailing musical forms of the period before about 1750 and those after that date. The earlier forms included primarily the sonata da chiesa, which emerged from the instrumental canzona, and the sonata da camera, which owed its origin to the dance ...
Chamber music - Classical, Baroque, Romantic: The work of Arcangelo Corelli in standardizing the two major sonata types of his time had tremendous impact on chamber music. Corelli was of considerable influence on Henry Purcell (c. 1659–95), the most important English composer of his time.
In chamber music, several composers born in the 19th century carried the modified Late-Romantic style into the 20th. Among the French composers were Gabriel Fauré, who, with 10 works, is remembered primarily for a refined and controlled style that is rhythmically subtle; and Vincent d’Indy, represented by about eight works, who reflected the ...
chamber music, Music composed for small instrumental ensembles and performed without a conductor. Traditionally intended for performance in a room or reception hall, often solely for the performers’ own pleasure, chamber music is now often heard in concert halls.
Chamber music in the later 19th century became ever more affected by developments in the orchestral field. The rise of professional quartets in the time of Beethoven had the effect of moving chamber music from the confines of the home to the public concert stage.
Chamber music - Audiences, Ensembles, Repertoire: For well over a century after its inception about 1600, chamber music was supported primarily by the nobility. Aristocratic establishments customarily employed groups of musicians who served as composers, conductors, and performers of a variety of operatic, orchestral, and chamber music; and ...
The work of Antonín Dvořák represents a combination of the finest Romantic writing with a decidedly nationalistic flavour. Of about 30 works of chamber music, nine held an important place in the repertory; these include two string sextets, three quartets, two piano trios, a piano quartet, and a piano quintet.
The phrase musica da camera, Italian for “music of the chamber,” originally referred to any music not intended for the church or for a dramatic or festive purpose. Today the term chamber music is applied to a type of classical music that is written for small groups of instruments.
Western music, music produced in Europe as well as those musics derived from the European from ancient times to the present day. All ancient civilizations entered historical times with a flourishing musical culture.
