Do Now: What aspects of a nation's identity (culture, history, language, territory, nationality, religion) could an artist, writer, or composer incorporate into their work? How?

Example: Frédéric Chopin Wrote numerous piano pieces inspired by peasant dances Most famous were the 68 mazurkas and and 23 polonaises Composition of these mazurkas signaled new ideas of nationalism, and influenced and inspired other composers—mostly eastern Europeans—to support their national music. Listening sample: Polonaise in A flat major, Op. 53

Example: Richard Wagner Most famous work is referred to as “The Ring Cycle,” a series of four epic operas (takes about 15 hours to perform) that tells the story of a magic ring that grants its bearer the power to rule the world. Drawn from stories of Norse and German mythology / folktales Came up with concept of Gesamtkunstwerk, or “total work of art,” that fused visual, musical, and dramatic arts. Listening Sample: “Ride of the Valykries,” opening of act III of Die Walkure, the second opera in the Ring cycle.

Anne Louis Girodet Trioson, “Heaven Receiving the Ghosts of the French heroes”

Jean Victor Schnetz, “Combat devant l'hôtel de ville ”

Hippolyte Lecomte, “Battle at the Rue de Rohan”

Listening Sample: 1812 Overture, Peter Tchaikovsky

John Constable,The Haywain, 1821, Oil on Canvas

Caspar David Friedrich, The Chasseur in the Forest Painted in 1814 after the expulsion of French troops from Germany, the painting depicts a French soldier lost in the dense German forest.

Caspar David Friedrich, Bohemian Landscape with Mount Milleschauer, 1808

Hans Gude, Brudeferden i Hardanger

Jasper Francis Cropsey: The Valley of Wyoming, 1865

Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains