If Variety is the Spice of Life, Classical Music is a Bottle of Tabasco

Some people view classical music as just orchestra music, or music that has a violin or some other string instrument in it. While this is one form of classical music, classical composers do not just stick to writing for strings or for an Orchestra. There are Opera’s written in the classical style along with songs that you would play on your piano at home. There are also songs that are written to solo out an instrument and put them against a whole orchestra.


Beyond having variety in the types of instruments that play classical music, the music itself can have very different elements that make each song unique. Would anybody say that “O Fortuna” from Carmina Burana is the same as Tchaikovsky's “Waltz of the Flowers?” Absolutely not. Both of these songs are classical music but composed and performed in two very different styles. There is variety in these songs that creates interest in the music and the story that it is trying to tell. The tone of both of these songs is different; the emotions behind these songs are very different; the songs create vastly different feelings to those who hear them. While all classical songs do share some attributes in common, there is a variety to them that gives a listener a sense of newness, excitement, and interest with each new song they hear.