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The Romantic Period
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Franz Liszt
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Frederic Francois Chopin
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Niccolo Paganini
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The Romantic Period 1825-1900 Music of deep feeling
Music that told stories Music that gave performers a chance for exciting playing
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The Romantic Period 1825-1900 Virtuosity Chopin, Liszt, Paganini
Music that gave performers a chance for exciting playing Virtuosity Chopin, Liszt, Paganini
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The Romantic Period Music of deep feeling Nationalism
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Hungarian Dance #5 by Johannes Brahms
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Using your iPads ----- Go to bjamusicappreciation.weebly.com.
Click on Links/iPad Nationalism. The password is 2017music. Fill in pages 59 and 60 in your notes using the powerpoint link. Read the Brahms biography and write down a few pertinent facts about him on page 61. DO NOT JUST WRITE 5 WORDS and call it done. Find the main points and get the name of at least one composition. (If you finish Brahms before the hour is over, go on to another of the six composers.)
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NATIONALISTIC MUSIC Characteristics Things that make music nationalistic
National anthems Folk songs Folk stories/folk heroes Geographical places Historical events/people Folk instruments
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National anthems or patriotic songs
National Emblem March (The Star-Spangled Banner) – USA 1812 Overture (Russian National Hymn) – Russia Variations on Austria (Austrian National Hymn) – Austria 1812 Overture (La Marseillaise) - France
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Folk songs The Moldau (Hatikvah) – Bohemia
Farandole (March of the Three Kings) – France Russian Sailor’s Dance (Yablochko) – Russia
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Folk stories/folk heroes
William Tell – Switzerland Till Eulenspiegel – Russia Peer Gynt – Norway
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Geographical places The Great Gate of Kiev – Russia
The Moldau – Bohemia Night on Bald Mountain – Russia Blue Danube – Austria The Fountains of Rome - Italy
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Historical events/people Folk instruments
1812 Overture – Russia Folk instruments ukelele – USA (Hawaii) accordion – Italy balalaika – Russia bagpipes – British Isles
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NATIONALISTIC MUSIC Characteristics
National anthems Folk songs Folk stories/folk heroes Geographical places Historical events/people Folk instruments
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Johannes Brahms
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JOHANNES BRAHMS Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1833
Died in Vienna, Austria in 1897 Known for his Hungarian Dances (Hungarian Dance #5)
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Modeste Mussorgsky
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MODESTE MUSSORGSKY Born in Karevo, Russia in 1839
Died in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1881 One of the “Big Five” group of Russian composers Wrote A Night on Bald Mountain
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Antonin Dvorak
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ANTONIN DVORAK Born in Nelahozeves, Bohemia in 1841
Died in Prague, Bohemia in 1904 Wrote The New World Symphony (Symphony #5 or #9) which is nationalistic music about the United States Wrote Slavonic Dances about his home country
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Jean Sibelius
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JEAN SIBELIUS Born in Tavastehus, Finland in 1865
Died in Jarvenpaa, Finland in 1957 Known as the greatest composer of Finland Wrote Finlandia to reflect his patriotic zeal and deep love of his homeland Finlandia contains the melody we now know as “Be Still, My Soul”
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Bedrich Smetana
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BEDRICH SMETANA Born in Litomysl, Bohemia in 1824
Died in Prague, Bohemia in 1884 (notes to come later)
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Edvard Grieg
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EDVARD GRIEG Born in Bergen, Norway in 1843
Died in Bergen, Norway in 1907 Known as the Voice of Norway Wrote Peer Gynt
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