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Romantic Period
Overview
1820 - 1900
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The Romantic Period New radical kind of expression, previously
not known in music or any of the arts Restless seeking & impulsive reaction Remoteness & strangeness Attracted to disproportionate and
excessive features Freedom of expression
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Romantic Period, cont. Passion Endless pursuit of the unattainable Spirit of longing created by this
“quest for the unreachable” Emotion Highly personal, subjective
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Important Influences Fusion of literature and music “Brotherhood of man” Folklore Shakespeare Exotic German writers: Goethe, Heine
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Important Influences, cont. Nature Supernatural Nationalism Program music Increasing importance of science in defining a world
view Patronage is dead – free market, “starving artist” Music as a business Literary side of Music Birth of the conductor
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Romantic Literary Figures Wordsworth Brownings Blake Sir Walter Scott Lord Byron Tennyson Poe
Carroll Goethe Heine Longfellow Thoreau Whitman Coleridge Dickinson
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Musical Style in the Romantic Era Dynamics Range and size of sound Greater variety of instruments Melodies: longer, more emotional, more
chromatic / dramatic Tempo extremes Rubato Harmonic structure totally changes
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Musical Style, cont. Formal structure changes New forms fused with literary connotations Tone Poem Symphonic poem Piano Miniature forms Lieder “Golden age of the virtuoso” Thematic development, transformation, etc…
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Romantic Period Vocal Music Lieder Opera Part Songs Smaller Choral / Orchestral Works Large Choral / Orchestral Works Partial re-emergence of a cappella
choral pieces
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LIEDER Total fusion of literature and music Voice and piano Schubert / favorite poet was Goethe Schumann / favorite poet was Heine Wolf Brahms Accompaniment part of total effect
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OPERA Golden Age of Opera Mostly Italians
Verdi Puccini Donizetti Rossini
Bizet Wagner
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Traditional Symphonies “ghost of Beethoven” Schubert Schumann Tchaikovsky Brahms Mendelssohn Dvorak Mahler
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Piano ComposersChopinLisztSchumannBrahmsRachmaninoffMendelssohn
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Tone PoemBerliozLisztStraussSmetana
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Orchestral MusicIncidental MusicOvertureBalletIndependent composition
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Nationalistic ComposersTchaikovsky – RussiaChopin – PolandDvorak – CzechGrieg – NorwayLiszt – HungarySibelius - Finland