Concert

History in the concert

It is difficult to assign with the concert a precise birth date, and one could consider that the concerts had been invented at the time of Néron. The spectacles of the Juggler S with the Middle Ages, including/understanding instrumental and vocal interventions, can also precede the concert. It seems however that the concert was created in Italy at the end of the 16th century, rather as meets convivial between instrumentalists within the framework of meetings taking the shape of living rooms a little. At the 17th century, the concert spreads in Germany with the musical evenings of Lübeck in the Années 1620, example followed elsewhere in Germany and Suisse. In England, many concerts saw the day starting from 1640 approximately, initially organized in tavern S, then in other types of rooms, leading to the development of musical companies.

The 18th century is that of the development in the concert in all the Western Europe. With Paris, the privilege of the royal Academy of music limit the possibility of public concerts, but the Concert of sacred music is an important success starting from 1725. In the Years 1770, concerts described as semi-public are born: Concert of the Olympic Cabin and Concert of the Amateurs. In the other towns of France, as with Grenoble, Nantes or Bordeaux, in the concerts are organized, often by Académie S or maconnic cabins . These companies in concerts often gather at the beginning of the amateurs and the professional musicians, who take little by little the top. The first regular concerts develop, supplemented by “concerts with benefit” and by concerts of sacred music following the example Parisian concert. The model in the Concert of sacred music is not spread only in province, but also in other capitals like Vienna and Moscow. In France, the Révolution has contradictory effects on the concerts: if it leads to the disappearance of certain academies, it in parallel causes a development of the theaters, of which some find interesting to present concerts, like the Théâtre Feydeau in Paris. The territories subjected to the European Colonisation, the such the United States, Saint-Domingue or the Brésil, adopt the concert on the model of what is done in metropolis. In parallel, the 18th century sees the birth of spectacles which will give rise to the Café-concert, even if they do not bear this name yet.

The 19th century sees a diversification in the concerts, with purely vocal concerts or conversely purely instrumental, even in concerts carried out by only one instrumentalist, which take the name of recital . With the creation of the modern orchestra is born the great concerts from orchestra. In 1800, the Conservatoire of Paris inaugurates its “exercises of pupils” who are true concerts attracting until in 1815, under the rod of François-Antoine Habeneck, of many listeners. In 1828, same Habeneck founds the Société in the concerts of the Academy. Before 1850 off appear also the Philharmonic Society London (1813) and the Gesellschaft of Musikfreunde to Vienna (1842) In second half of the century, other musical units are created, with the will to make the concert more accessible, as well on the musical level as on the financial plan, with the Concerts Lamoureux and the Concerts Column. The provincial towns also organize concerts, often with a municipal orchestra and the support of the conservatory local. The 19th century is also that of the apogee of the café concert, but, starting from the Third Republic, part of the rooms of café concert evolves to a theater without drink consumption. The Belle Time sees arriving of many singers at successes, which will launch the kind of the Musique of varieties.

The concert still takes a larger rise at the 20th century. Admittedly, the traditional concert undergoes the competition of the disc and the radio (which also sometimes contributes to diffuse the concerts). That does not prevent the concerts from multiplying, opening more and more with the whole of the times of the Histoire of the music while continuing to diffuse the Modern music. The phenomenon reaches the worldwide developed, in particular China and Japan. The singers organize concerts and program rounds in their countries and even abroad. As of its arrival in Europe after the First World War, the Jazz is diffused by the concerts, as the Rock will do it later. Starting from the Années 1950, undoubtedly while taking as a starting point what is done with the Télévision, the concerts of the singers insist on the dimension of spectacle in the concert, who receive the name English of show .

Particular types in concerts

So in a musical representation, visual dimension takes a certain importance compared to purely musical dimension, the word “concert” is forsaken with the profit of the term indicating more precisely the Musical genre concerned, and one speaks then in this case, of opera, Opérette, Musical comedy, Ballet, etc

However, the concerts of some standard of music - pop, Jazz, varieties, etc -, are frequently accompanied by scenic elements very sophisticated, such as Costume S, Appearing S, laser beams, etc In this case, the words “ concert ” and “ spectacle ” can be indifferently employed.

The concert in classical music

In Classical music, when a concert is organized around one only interprets, one speaks more readily about “recital”.

For example, a “recital of melody S”, a “recital of Piano”, etc

When a musical work originally intended for the scene is interpreted, without Mise in scene, Décor S, etc, one says that this one is carried out “ in concert ” or “ in version in concert ”.

It is appropriate not to confuse the word “concert”, with the word “Concerto”, which returns to a musical Forme, of instrumental nature and concerting.

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