Transcript THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900)

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• Similarities to Classical but…
• Uses greater range of….
• Tone color
• Dynamics
• Pitch
• The harmonies are broader
• The use of unstable chords
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• Characteristics
• Style
• emphasis on heart over mind & selfexpression , individuality
• Aims & Strengths
• universe of feelings
• nature vs. supernatural
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• Characteristics
• Nationalism & Exoticism
• expressing deliberately music credited to
identity of a specific country
• setting music with styles associated with
foreign nationalities
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• Characteristics
• Program Music
• Instrumental music associated with story or
poem, idea, scene
• Expressive tone color
• using timbre alone to create mood &
atmosphere
• Romantic orchestra larger with more color
options
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Colorful Harmony
chromatic harmony
12tones scale
unstable
unsettled
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Expanded range of dynamics, pitch & tempo
use of pppp and ffff
plus longer cresendo’s & decresendo’s
extreme high notes and low notes
• rubato feel = free feeling tempo of slightly
slower or faster
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• THE ART SONG
• solo voice & piano / setting to poems to music
• Strophic form = new lyric but same music per
stanza
• Through composed form = new music and
new lyric per stanza
• Song Cycle = group of art songs that tell a
larger story or theme
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THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900)
Schubert
born Vienna
earliest romantic great
love of poetry lead to art song
(143 total written)
died at 31
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Listening Journal : Schubert : The Erlking
Through Composed
father riding home sick child
sick boy has visions of the Erlking (king of
Elves symbol of death)
• galloping accompaniment
• mounting tension of through composed
• climax @ end when father arrives home but
boy has died
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THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900)
The Schumann’s
Robert & Clara (married couple)
German composers who meet in Leipzig
Her father forbid them from marrying
Robert was more well known as a composer
She was performing pianist
Robert wrote mainly piano pieces
Wrote some Art songs
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Listening Journal: Carnaval (Robert)
Selected songs from Carnaval song cycle
Cycle of 21 brief song
Each has descriptive title evoking a characters,
moods, ect.. at a masked ball
Listening Journal: Liebst du um Schonheit (Clara)
From a song cycle written in 1841
9 songs of Robert + 3 songs of Clara
Would often write love notes in music to each other
Clara’s song glorifies romantic love
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• Chopin
• only great composer who wrote almost
exclusively for the Piano
• born Warsaw Poland (1810-1849)
• @ 21 moved to Paris
• feel into life with the aristocratic society
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• Chopin
• played more in upper class salons rather
than concert halls
• was reserved shy man
• wrote nocturnes, waltzes, preludes,
etudes
• died of tuberculosis @ 39.
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• Chopin
• Listening Journal :
• Chopin :Nocturne in Eb Major
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• Chopin : Etude in C Minor