THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) Similarities to Classical but… Uses greater range of…. Tone color Dynamics Pitch The harmonies are broader The use of unstable chords
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) Characteristics Style emphasis on heart over mind & self- expression, individuality Aims & Strengths universe of feelings nature vs. supernatural
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) Characteristics Nationalism & Exoticism expressing deliberately music credited to identity of a specific country setting music with styles associated with foreign nationalities
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) 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
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) Characteristics Colorful Harmony chromatic harmony 12tones scale unstable unsettled
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) Characteristics 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
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) 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
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) Schubert born Vienna earliest romantic great love of poetry lead to art song (143 total written) died at 31
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) 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 end when father arrives home but boy has died
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) 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
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) The Schumann’s 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 songs of Robert + 3 songs of Clara Would often write love notes in music to each other Clara’s song glorifies romantic love
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) Chopin only great composer who wrote almost exclusively for the Piano born Warsaw Poland 21 moved to Paris feel into life with the aristocratic society
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) Chopin played more in upper class salons rather than concert halls was reserved shy man wrote nocturnes, waltzes, preludes, etudes died of 39.
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( ) Chopin Listening Journal : Chopin :Nocturne in Eb Major Listening Journal : Chopin : Etude in C Minor