Classical music’s expressive vocabulary begins with simple, direct emotions like joy, anger, wonder, sadness, then layers on a vast range of tone colors and compositional techniques that allow composers to extend these basis into a language capable of expressing te most suble variations of feeling. Explore the variations of emotion found in classical music.
Though the tools of their trades are different, the arts share many techniques such as color, line, and form. Pair music and art to see and hear the interplay between visual art and music.
Explore how composers continually return to music’s primal moves. Listen to the subtle yet expansive range of emotion found in classical music. Experiment with the association between music and art.
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