Concert

Concert ( from the Italian concerto, agreement, association ') in the sense of a musical event called the presentation of music in front of an assembled audience for this purpose. This can be public or private. The term differentiates itself from events where the music is not the main thing.

History

The concert was at the beginning of the bourgeois musical life in the 18th century, mainly in London and Paris ( Concert spiritual ), since the end of the century, increasingly in other European cities. Was public musical performance have been previously always connected without dance with a religious or courtly Begängnis, with liturgy, ceremony or banquet, it was now for the first time understood as the end in itself art exercise in which to represent humanity and emotion representative and entertaining.

The concert offered the possibility of a ritual that was independent of traditional religious and courtly ceremonial, but still had their luster. In addition, the audience could represent his education. The " bourgeois" appreciation of the musicians played a role that still had a supporting role at court. Some concert companies wrote their members the knowledge of musical instruments. The audience played so occasionally also on the podium, along with the invited soloists.

Pure Instrumental concerts and concerts that were performed continuously from the same artist were rare until the 20th century. Most of the concerts were a kind of colorful evening. The demarcation to dance was not always sharp, such as the Summer Concert.

In opposition to the bourgeois concert were formed in the 20th century from other concert types: While the jazz concert preferred the club atmosphere, which has evolved from the older music halls, the pop or rock concert, which since the late 1960s are broke away from the dance event, usually the image of a casual mass meeting, also known as open-air concert. Concerts with dress code but are also common in this area.

On more specific event types, there are about the Conversation concert with statements or interviews or the promenade concert, which allows the audience to move around the room. Events of symphony orchestras, reach a mass audience, are about the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic, and the Last Night of the Proms.