The orchestra and its instruments . Hippolyte etArcie, Les Indes Galantes, Castor et Polluxare some of them â and ballets, which as M. Choquettruly says, contain beauties which defy the caprices offashion and will command the respect of true artistsfor all time. Rameau died in 1774. Rameau lookedvery much like Voltaire. He always used the violinwhen composing. Rameaus new ideas of orchestrationcreated animosity among the followers of LuIIy. What did Rameau do for the Orchestra? He gave to the different members oj the Orchestra anindividual role; he extended the technique of theviolins; he made
The orchestra and its instruments . Hippolyte etArcie, Les Indes Galantes, Castor et Polluxare some of them â and ballets, which as M. Choquettruly says, contain beauties which defy the caprices offashion and will command the respect of true artistsfor all time. Rameau died in 1774. Rameau lookedvery much like Voltaire. He always used the violinwhen composing. Rameaus new ideas of orchestrationcreated animosity among the followers of LuIIy. What did Rameau do for the Orchestra? He gave to the different members oj the Orchestra anindividual role; he extended the technique of theviolins; he made an increasing use of arpeggios; andhe was the first to use pizzicato chords with all thestrings at once. He also made a delicate and light useof the woodwind. Every day Rameau is taking a larger place in critics consider him the most French of all theircomposers. While the Italian Renaissance had developed theopera, the dance and music that delighted the drawing-room, under the bright skies of Italy, in the colder. RAMEAUBy Restout THE ORCHESTRA 185 North, under the. influence of stern Martin Luther,the Chorale, or hymn-tune, had arisen to supply theneeds of the new Lutheran religion. The Chorale isaustere and solemn, although melodious. It waslargely owing to these chorales that the new Re-formed religion made its way so rapidly among thepeople of Northern Germany. The sources of theseChorales were various: some came from old church-hymns; others, from folk-songs. A good exampleis the Old Hundredth Tune beginning Praise Godfrom whom all blessings flow. The custom of playing these Chorales on the organwith elaborate accompaniments and treating them alsoas themes for fugues and counterpoint was a specialfancy of the German organists. Germany had the finest organists in Europe in theSeventeenth Century; and there was no greater oneamong them than Johann Sebastian Bach. Moreover, no one understood the Chorale better,or made more use of it, than Bach. Bachs life was
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