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Music of the Romantic
PeriodGroup 3Aranjuez. Acosta. Boongaling.
Cordez. De Jesus. Rustia. Saroca
INTRODUCTIONRomantic music :-Western music in the late 18th – 19th century - Program Music (main form) of instrumental compositions = portrays ideas and relays story
INTRODUCTION
-Short piano pieces in ABA form-instrumental music was available to a wide audience- popular to middle class
CHARACTERISTICS• Use of extreme emotions and expressions•Freedom in composing•Expansion of the orchestra •Love, nationalism, religion, and nature
ROMANTIC PERIODVIOLIN AND STRINGS MUSIC
WOLVERINE
HUGH JACKMAN
NICCOLO PAGANINI
OCTOBER 27, 1782
3RD OUT OF6 CHILDREN
RINOA
GENOA
ITALY
ITALY
HUGH JACKMAN
NICCOLO PAGANINI
MANDARIN
MANDOLIN
AGE FIVE
MANDOLIN
VIOLIN
AGE SEVEN
SO GOOD
ONE PROFESSOR TO
ANOTHER
ITALY
ITALY
ITALY
ITALY
BEST VIRTUOSO
FAMOUS WORKS• La Campanella• The Carnival of Venice• 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1
PIANO MUSICFrederic Chopin
FREDERIC CHOPIN• Known as the “Poet of the Piano”•Piano – 4 y/o•Composed “polonaise” – 7 y/o•folk music•Wrote almost exclusively for piano
FREDERIC CHOPIN• Fantasie in F minor, Op. 49•Revolutionary Etude•Op. 10, No. 12•24 preludes, Op. 28
FREDERIC CHOPIN•Went to Paris•Met legendary composers (Liszt, Mendelssohn, Schumann)•Married George Sand•Pulmonary Tuberculosis
F. CHOPIN is famous for the ff:
• Ballade – verse or narrative (set to music)• Etude – piece for development of a technique• Mazurka – Polish dance (triple time signature)• Nocturne – instrumental of a dreamy mood in piano• Polonaise – slow Polish dance (triple Time
signature): march, procession
F. CHOPIN is famous for the ff:• Waltz – German dance in triple meter• Impromptu – short free-form composition for solo
instrument• Scherzo –playful movement, typically in ABA from• Sonata – composition for one/more solo
instruments consisting og 3 or 4 independent movements varying in key, mood and tempo
FRANZ LISZT
FRANZ LISZT• “VIRTUOSITY”• Busiest musician, virtuoso pianist and composer• easily understood sight reading• Niccolo Paganini• Age 6 : teacher = father
FRANZ LISZT• symphonic poems• literary works to muscal compositions•Piano transcriptions of operas and symphonies• generous, compassionate
• La campanella• Liebestraume no. 3• Hungarian Rapsodies (no.2 = Cat Concerto)• Un Sospiro• Sonata in B Minor• Symphonic Poems (“Hamlet”, “Les Preludes”)
Some of Liszt’s piano works:
Robert Schumann
ROBERT SCHUMANN
music and words --- criticFather wants him to study
law Friedrick Wieck (teacher) hand problem “Jornal Neue Zeitschrift fur
Musik”
Works:• “Abegg Variations,” Opus 1 (1830)• “Kreislariana,” Opus 16 (1838)• “Kinderszenen,” Opus 15 (1838)Art songs:• “Dischterliebe” (A poet’s Love)Orchestral Music:• “Overture,” Scherzo• “Finale,” Opus 52 ( a mini symphony)• “Piano Concerto in A Minor,” Opus 54
PROGRAM MUSIC- Instrumental
composition that conveys images or
scenes to tell a short story without text or
lyrics
HECTOR BERLIOZ
HECTOR BERLIOZo guitar and fluteo Physician father = medical schoolo “Symphonie Fantastique”o Tone color
HECTOR BERLIOZ
PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
(PYOTR ILYICH CHAYKOWSKY)
PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY• ballet music• Big fan of Mozart• Anton Rubinstein• Study and teach at conservatories (St. Petersburg and Moscow)• “Faum”, “Romeo and Juliet”• Cholera
- “Swan Lake”- “The Nutcracker”- “Sleeping Beauty”- “Romeo and Juliet”- Symphony no. 2- Symphony no. 6 “Pathetique”
PETER TCHAIKOVSKY famous works
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
• aunt --> Piano lessons (2 y/o)• composed piano pieces (3 y/o)•Elegant, neat, clean and polished music•“The Swan”
Best known music of Saint-Saens:o “Carnival of the Animals”o “Danse Macabre”oSymphony no.3”o “the Swan”o Over 300 works: - 3 operas (“Samson and Delilah” only one remembered)
