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So you have, or plan to have, a classical music collection of at least several hours’ length. And you are going to serve your music from a computer using the popular iTunes or something similar. This will be fun! Once your hard drive starts to load up with music files, you can stream your music through the house, send it to your high end DAC, control it from an iPod. You can play all your music files in some kind of order, or you can play them all at random. If you want to hear specific pieces you can look them up in your software’s index, but if you want anything like a musical program, you’ll have to make playlists. The main index already has the capability of finding music by artist, by album and by composer (and by many other perhaps less useful criteria too, such as length and bit rate). A playlist makes it possible to group your classical music by period. That’s something you might want to do, since in principle the Software Classics and Then Some music of a given period shares certain characteristics. If you know one favorite composer’s music is in the style of the Romantic period, another Romantic might please you too. Of course, then you have to understand something about the musical periods. Baroque, Classical, Romantic: who’s in which, and why? My own decision to use my computer as a digital source brought me up against a need to know. If your classical collection, by accident or design, includes only the Big Three — Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, listed in chronological order — that’s okay. You still have a heck of a lot of classical music to listen to. (Not to mention the immense number of recorded performances of their pieces.) Your classification task is easy, though: you can just drag them all into one playlist. Call it “classical,” why not? But if you want to leave room to expand, you can start off right now by by Toby Earp putting Johann Sebastian Bach into another section and calling it “Baroque.” Leave the others in “Classical.” How’s that? First we had everything by the Big Three in Classical, and now we’ve split off Bach to a separate period — but the others are still Classical! It’s true that we are only considering small-c classical music here. When the term was first used, in the mid-19 th Century, it meant the pre-Romantics. Today “classical music” means basically all “heavy” or art music dating from the invention of a practical way to write it down. Within classical music, though, there is a Classical period, and that is where Mozart and early Beethoven are considered to belong. All through setting up an iTunes classical music library based on style and period, we’ll be concerned with distinguishing musical styles more specifically. We would do the same thing with jazz, dividing it up into swing, bebop, cool jazz, Dixieland and so forth, then perhaps subdividing a bit more: swing and big band swing for example. So let’s start by describing the Classical period within classical music. After that we’ll swing back to the forerunners, then jump ahead to more recent times. We have to remember, though, that just because a period ends and another begins, that doesn’t mean that either the music of earlier periods, or music written in the style of earlier periods, did not remain popular. Like all changes in musical style, the Classical was a modernization of what had come to seem old-fashioned to many. From about 1750, an association was made between the ideas of classical Greece, expressed two thousand years earlier, and the new development of “natural philosophy”: the first steps toward what would become modern science. There was a confidence that the workings of the universe could be discovered, via an orderly approach, to be structured in an orderly and logical way. Music, in its turn, became more clearly structured. Instrumental music began to be divided into movements ULTRA HIGH FIDELITY Magazine 63
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