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A time of Imagination & Mystery
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Emotion-filled Music Reaction against Classical Period A new sense of Political & Artistic Freedom Industrial Revolution Railroads, Steamboats Emancipation Proclamation, American Civil War Telegraph, Telephone, Morse Code Theory of Evolution Photography, Sound Recordings
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A New wealthy Middle class Music & Cultural Activities Ticket sales & Music Publishing More individualism & creative freedom Inspiration from Nature & Natural light called Impressionism
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Literature Adventure: The Three Musketeers, Alexandre Dumas Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain Social Changes: Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens Exotic Places: Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling Science Fiction: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
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Prominent Thinkers and Creators Georges Bizet French Composer (Carmen) George Caleb Bingham American painter Charles Dickens English author Samuel F. B. Morse American inventor of telegraph
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Some Important Events 1830 First railroad 1837 Morse invents the telegraph 1838 First photography 1859 Dawin’s Origin of the Species 1861-1865 American Civil War 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone 1877-1888 Edison invents phonograph, light bulb & movie projector 1892 Premiere of The Nutcracker Ballet by Tchaikovsky
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Music of the Romantic Period Focused on Human Emotion Larger Compositions Complex Vocal Melodies Colorful Harmonies. Brass & Woodwind Finalized Use of Piano Expanded
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Music that Appealed to Middle Class Extravagant Operatic spectacles Bold, Grand Symphonic Music Subject to Music Critics
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Other Characteristics of Romantic Music Nationalism Germany – Wagner operas Italy – Historical & Cultural Traditions Czech Republic – Dvorak’s New World Symphony
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NEW Genres Overture Symphonic Poem Lieder (Songs) Waltz Ballet Solo Piano Pieces
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Composers Wagner Verdi Dvorak Mendelssohn Lizst Chopin Tchaikovsky Brahms Bizet Strauss Rossini Berlioz
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