Chamber music

Chamber Music

Eduqas GCSE Music

Part of the Music for ensemble AofS

​Chamber music is literally music that can be played in a chamber ( a small room) so music for small ensembles (groups). There is usually one player to each part ( unlike in Orchestras)

They include:

Duets

Trios

Quartets

Quintets

Sextets

Trio Sonata:
Only written in the Baroque
period
(1600-1750)

VIOLIN 1 and VIOLIN 2
CONTINUO ( 2 Instruments- Cello and
Harpsichord)

A Trio Sonata grouping has four instruments…

A Sonata is either

A Piece for a solo instrument and accompaniment written in the Baroque, Classical Romantic period or Twentieth century

OR

A Piece for Solo Piano written in the Classical period, Romantic or Twentieth Century

You will also see that there is an instrumental grouping called a Trio Sonata in the Baroque period.

What is a Sonata?

Poll

Shut your eyes. How can you tell this Symphony (a piece for Orchestra) apart from a String Quartet ?

• More instruments

• Generally louder

• You cant hear individual instruments as clearly

Poll

This is a piece of Chamber music called a String Quartet. Which instruments would you guess are in a string quartet, based on what you can hear?

String quartets were developed in the Classical period by the composer Haydn.

• Violin

  Viola

  Cello

  Double Bass

• Violin

  Violin

  Cello

  Double Bass

• Viola

  Viola

  Cello

  Cello

• Violin

  Violin

  Viola

  Cello

String Quartet: Quartets were invented by Haydn in the Classical Period (1750-1830)
String quartets were also written in Romantic
period and 20th Century. The most important feature is that all the parts are of equal importance.

Woodwind quintet:
Classical, Romantic
period (1830-1900) and 20th Century

•Flute
•Oboe,
•Clarinet,
•Bassoon ,
•French horn

Piano Quintet

Does it have a Piano
and 4 Stringed
instruments?

If the answer to this

question is yes
you are listening to
a Piano Quintet

JS Bach

Handel

Vivaldi

​​Composers from

Baroque period

Mozart

Haydn

Beethoven

​​Composers from Classical period

Composers from the ​Romantic period

​Schubert

Mendelssohn

Chopin