How Beethoven Inspired Composers to Create Programmatic Instrumental Music (2055 words, 8 pages)
During the height of the classical era, the symphony was perhaps the pinnacle of instrumental musical expression. In a post-Beethoven musical society, however, the lines defining the compositional conventions of an instrumental ensemble, such as a symphony,were somewhat blurred. Beethoven introduced new instrumentation, thematic context, harmonic motion, and many other ...
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