What intruments were used in the Classical Music period???

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Answer 1

Well, we wouldn't want to piss you off now would we?
The answer is pretty much all of the acoustical instrument that there are today. Except the saxophone which wasn't around until 1840.

Answer 2

I presume you are talking about the Classical era c1750-c1820. Most of the instruments we have today already existed - albeit in more rudimentary stages of development. The early forms of the piano (what we now call the fortepiano) were superceding the harpsichord and had completely done so by the 1780s. Haydn and Mozart were among the first to exploit it capabilities by writing concertos and sonatas for the instrument.

All string instruments were present, although they were set up slightly differently than today - necks were not so angled (so the fingerboard was flatter to the body of the instrument) and the fingerboards themselves were shorter that the ones whch replaced them during the Romantic period. Also, chin and shoulder rests were yet to be commonly used and strings were only gut (or wound gut). Many people do not realise that any instrument made during the 16th-18th centuries will have been modified and modernised several times during its life and will not be as its original maker left it. All will have had new necks, longer fingerboards, revised bass bars and soundposts fitted to keep up with the increasingly demanding needs of the modern orchestra.

The flute, oboe and bassoon were regular members of the orchestra but the clarinet was in its infancy and didn't find a regular place in the orchestra until the late 1780s/early 1790s - largely in the beginning thanks to Mozart's advocacy. Horns and trumpets were present (although they were 'natural' instruments without valves and, therefore, were restricted to playing notes from the harmonic series). Trombones, although fairly ancient instruments were for a long time only found in the opera house and had to wait until Beethoven came along to liberate them into the standard symphony orchestra. The tuba (and its antecedents, the ophicleide and serpent) were yet to appear. There was a wide range of percussion but it was not very often used (apart from timpani) until towards the end of the Classical period. Hardly any tuned instruments (eg xylophones, glockenspiels, bells etc) existed until during the Romantic era (although Mozart used an early form of Glockenspiel in his opera The Magic Flute).

The harp existed but in a much simpler form without the pedals that appeared in the late nineteenth century and gave it full chromatic capability.

Hope this answers your question adequately.

Answer 3

Who by? Like today there was more than one strand of music in the 18th century - there was classical music (Mozart etc) and folk music. Also of course there were many different instruments used around the world.

The instruments of the Classical orchestra (and by that I assume you mean the classical period between 1730 and 1820) were 2 groups of violins, cellos, double basses, one or two flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets (though only towards the end of the classical period), 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 2 trumpets and kettledrums - though often these numbers would vary quite considerably depending on how many musicians were available to play.

Folk musicians used all sorts of different instruments, guitars, bagpipes, recorders, fiddles and so on - but with the exception of the recorder which occaisionally played a flute part these weren't used in orchestras.

Pianos were not used often in the orchestra (and even today aren't technically orchestral instruments) UNLESS the orchestra were playing a piano concerto. A concerto is essentially a 'guest' instrument with an orchestral backing, you can have concertos for all sorts of different instruments. Harpsichords were quite frequently used in orchestras before the classical period, but they disappeared once the classical period started.

Harps didn't appear in the orchestra until very much later - they only really feature even today when specifically called for. Many composers didn't write for harps until the 19th or even 20th century.

In the 19th and 20th centuries orchestras got very much larger as the role of classical music changed. Today there are often 100 instrumentalists in a full symphony orchestra, though the number of each instrument and the type of instrument various from piece to piece. There are again 2 sections of violins, one of violas, cellos and double basses, flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, trumpets, trombones, french horns, tuba(s) and percussion (side drum, bass drum, kettle drum, xylophone, cymbals etc) though there may be lots of other instrumnets; pianos, saxophones, harps and so on.

Answer 4

Shostakovich- Festive Overture ( i advise you pay attention to the KBS Symphony) Sibelius- Symphony No.2 in D IV. Finale (Allegromoderato) (Moscow Radio Symhpony) Wagner- Lohengrin Prelude to behave a million Prokofiev- Romeo and Juliet (a million. The Montagues and Capulets)

Answer 5

More than the Saxophone they rarely used guitars at all and the piano wasn't widely used until the middle of the classical era.

Answer 6

Piano ( it started to replace the harpsichord), violin, viola, cello, double bass.
Flute, harp,clarinet.

These are the only ones that I am certain of.

Answer 7

Oboes, flutes, and most likley violins.

Answer 8

the same ones they have today