1. Originally "Le Moribond" ("The Dying Man"), this was written and performed in French by Belgian poet-composer Jacques Brel in 1961.

2. "Seasons in the Sun" is the story of a dying man, bidding farewell to loved ones who have shared his life. Shortly before Terry's recording came out, Jacques Brel retired, at the peak of his popularity. Fans around the world were stunned, but the composer would give no reason. Finally, the truth was revealed: after a quiet, six-year battle against cancer, Brel succumbed to the disease and died on October 9, 1978.

3. Music of the Romantic Period

4. The Romantic Period 1825 - 1910

5. What was happening in the world during this period?  1825 - Erie Canal opens  1838 - Invention of photography  1846 - Neptune discovered  1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of the Species  1861-1865 - American Civil War

6.  1869 - Transcontinental Railroad completed  1872 - Brooklyn Bridge opens  1876 - Telephone invented  1877 - Phonograph invented  1886 - Statue of Liberty presented to New York  1893 - Henry Ford builds first car  1903 - Wright Brothers first airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, NC  1905 - E=mc 2 - Einstein’s Theory of Relativity

7. Famous People from the Era  Charles Darwin  Albert Einstein  Sigmund Freud  Abraham Lincoln  Mark Twain  Alexander Graham Bell  Henry Ford  Booker T. Washington  Karl Marx  Jack the Ripper  Walt Whitman  Ralph Waldo Emerson  Henry David Thoreau  Edgar Allen Poe  Emily Dickinson  Cezanne  Van Gogh

8. What does the term Romantic mean? The Romantic movement in music coincides with a general Romantic movement in all arts. At this period, the arts of literature and painting began to influence music. In the Romantic era, music acquired poetic or philosophical meaning.

9. What does the term Romantic mean? Antiquity, folklore, history and exotic cultures were examined as possible sources of inspiration.

10. The Shifts to the Romantic Era  Not only did the Industrial Revolution change the music of the times, but it also changed people’s perspectives of everything around them.  These changes in attitude and perception became inspiration for musicians to express more emotion about the changing times into their music. Their music had become reflective of their daily lives.

11. Romantic Period Music- The Times Defined  The Romantic Era in music (mid 1800’s – early 1900’s) was an era of rebelling against everything that was once believed to be “Standard.”

12. Romantic Period Music- The Times Defined  Not dissimilar from the Classical Era, the Romantic Era composers used sonatas, symphonies, concertos, and operas in their pieces of work.  The difference was that in the Romantic Era, the pieces of work did not stay true to the rules of the “Forms” (Forms are the styles used in the songs).

13. Famous Romantic Composers  Frederic Chopin  Franz Liszt  Hector Berlioz  Johannes Brahms  Modest Mussorgsky  Felix Mendelssohn  Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky  Richard Wagner

14. Famous Romantic Composers  Frederic Chopin  Franz Liszt  Hector Berlioz  Johannes Brahms  Modest Mussorgsky  Felix Mendelssohn  Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky  Richard Wagner

15. GROUP ACTIVITY  By COLOR GROUP  REDFrederic Chopin  BLUEHector Berlioz  YELLOWJohannes Brahms  ORANGEFelix Mendelssohn  VIOLETPeter Ilyich Tchaikovsky  GREENRichard Wagner

16. GROUP ACTIVITY  Who is *?  What are the significant events in his life?  What were his contributions in Music?  Was his music affected by people, history and/or culture? How?

17. Frederic Chopin Web

18. Hector Berlioz Web

19. Johannes Brahms Web

20. Felix Mendelssohn Web

21. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Web

22. Richard Wagner Web

23. The Main Characteristics of Romantic Music  Freedom of form and design. It was more personal and emotional.  Song-like melodies (lyrical), as well as many chromatic harmonies and discords.  Dramatic contrasts of dynamics and pitch.  Big orchestras!  Wide variety of pieces (i.e. songs up to five hour Wagner operas!) Wagner

24. Characteristics of the Romantic Period  Music is not as reliant on repetition as in Classical music  The music often directly tells a story ( Programme music)  Much bigger orchestras  Music is highly emotional  Great technical virtuosity  Nationalism- often in the presence of echoes back to traditional cultural songs

25. OperaOpera and Ballet had huge jumps in popularity Opera

26.  What Lesson can we get from the Music of the Romantic Period?

27. The Shifts to the Romantic Era  Much of the advent of the Romantic era in Classical music was technically caused by the Industrial Revolution, where more brass and woodwind instruments were added to the standard orchestra including the piccolo, clarinet, bassoon, and tuba. The bongos, and more exotic percussions were added to the orchestras later in the eighteenth century

28. The Shifts to the Romantic Era  The Romantic period was also the period of Nationalism.  "Nationalism" means being proud of one's country. In the 19th century a lot of European countries as we know them were being formed.

29. The Shifts to the Romantic Era  Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904) and Bedřich Smetana (1824-1884) wrote music which sounds very Czech.  Pyotr Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) wrote music with Russian folk songs in them.  Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) used German folk songs in his symphonies, and Ralph  Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) collected English folk songs and put them in his music.