Streaming: The New Era (Part 2)

Learn about streaming: the new era (part 2): recognize the style of classical vs. romantic music

🎵 Stage Brief #59

Film music became an art form with composers like Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, John Williams, and Hans Zimmer.

🎯 Your mission

Listen with your eyes closed. Then open them and read about it.

⚡ The twist

Old doesn't mean boring. Some 300-year-old music still slaps.

What you'll learn

Film music became an art form with composers like Max Steiner, Bernard Herrmann, John Williams, and Hans Zimmer.

Remember

🎧 Listen

Listen for this

🎧 What instruments are NOT here that we'd hear today?

🌟 Artist spotlight

🌟 Beethoven kept writing music even after he went completely deaf.

🤯 Mind = blown

🤯 Beethoven's 9th symphony is the song the European Union plays for itself.

Check your understanding · 1 of 3

What genre originated in New Orleans around 1900?

Check your understanding · 2 of 3

What instrument did Johann Sebastian Bach primarily play?

Check your understanding · 3 of 3

Who composed the 'Moonlight Sonata'?

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