View
4.684
Download
1
Category
Preview:
DESCRIPTION
This PowerPoint presentation contains a series of links to YouTube videos that contrast the works of Romantic composers with those of Impressionist composers.
Citation preview
Romantic Period
vs.
Impressionist Period
The following slides contain a series of links to YouTube video recordings of Romantic and Impressionist works in various musical genres
(solo piano works, songs, chamber music, orchestral music, opera and ballet.)
Listen to a minute or two of each Romantic work, followed with its Impressionist
counterpart. By doing so, you will learn to recognize the differences in sound and
other qualities between Romantic and Impressionist music.
Piano Music
Romantic• Chopin: Polonaise in A-flat (Vladimir Horowitz)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZGi49Bnghs
Impressionist • Debussy: La Cathedrale Engloutie(“The Sunken Cathedral”)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsdIkUSjXv8
Piano Music
Romantic• Brahms Intermezzo in A Majorhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqBzK5tKFVc
Impressionist• Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit - III. Scarbo (1909)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ4BKX5R1ko
(See next slide for a description of this work.)
Piano Music
Impressionist• Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit - III. Scarbo (1909)
This movement depicts the nighttime mischief of small fiend or goblin of some sort, making pirouettes, flitting in and out of the darkness, disappearing and suddenly reappearing. Its uneven flight, hitting and scratching against the panels of the bed, casting a growing shadow in the moonlight creates a nightmarish scene for the observer lying in his bed.
Songs (German Lied/French Art Song)
RomanticSchubert• An die Musik (Lieder)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-VqK088TF4
Impressionist• Debussy: "Green"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2PaUySrhRk
Songs (German Lied/French Art Song)
Romantic• Schubert Ave Mariahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXdqprmpgoM Impressionist• Nebbie ("Fog" or "Mists")http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfPQcROKxqw
Chamber Music
Romantic• Johannes Brahms: Quintet for Clarinet and
Strings in B Minorhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtN1scGYJKA
Impressionist• Maurice Ravel:• Introduction & Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet &
Stringshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBm1w8J63mg
Orchestral Music
Romantic• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Scherzohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwhmbK6Av_w&feature=fvst
Impressionist• Claude Debussy: La Mer - 1st Movement (1905)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66hX8Ms0FwE
Orchestral Music
Romantic• Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 8 - Finale (1906)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WhNn6zxqVg Impressionist • Charles Tomlinson Griffes: (American; 1884-1920)
Poeme for Flute & Orchestrahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTb3UtQIrZs
Piano Solo & Orchestra
Romantic• Tchaikovsky: Concerto No. 1 in Bb for Piano http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1axL9ZNnJIE
Marta Argerich, pianist (start at 1:31)Impressionist• Manuel De Falla (Spanish Composer)Nights in the Gardens of Spainhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgy0d2lJv9M
Opera
Romantic• Richard Wagner“Du bist der Lenz” from Die Walkurehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcYADZGp5DY
Impressionist Claude Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (Mes longs
cheveux)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJENlHEZi18
Ballet Music
Romantic• Peter Illych Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Ballet)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S76CGGPqI3s&feature=fvst
Impressionist• Maurice Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe (Ballet)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzwHjEOwVno&feature=fvst
Recommended