1. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) Similarities to Classical but… Uses greater range of…. Tone color Dynamics Pitch The harmonies are broader The use of unstable chords

2. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) Characteristics Style emphasis on heart over mind & self- expression, individuality Aims & Strengths universe of feelings nature vs. supernatural

3. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) Characteristics Nationalism & Exoticism expressing deliberately music credited to identity of a specific country setting music with styles associated with foreign nationalities

4. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) 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

5. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) Characteristics Colorful Harmony chromatic harmony 12tones scale unstable unsettled

6. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) 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

7. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) 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

8. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) Schubert born Vienna earliest romantic great love of poetry lead to art song (143 total written) died at 31

9. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) 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 climax @ end when father arrives home but boy has died

10. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) 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

11. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) 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 1841 9 songs of Robert + 3 songs of Clara Would often write love notes in music to each other Clara’s song glorifies romantic love

12. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) Chopin only great composer who wrote almost exclusively for the Piano born Warsaw Poland (1810-1849) @ 21 moved to Paris feel into life with the aristocratic society

13. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) Chopin played more in upper class salons rather than concert halls was reserved shy man wrote nocturnes, waltzes, preludes, etudes died of tuberculosis @ 39.

14. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) Chopin Listening Journal : Chopin :Nocturne in Eb Major Listening Journal : Chopin : Etude in C Minor