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What are some general traits of the Romantic Era?
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1. Subjective emotion
2. Fantasy; world of dreams 3. Chivalry and Romance 4. Love of Nature |
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What is the time frame for the Romantic Era?
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1820-1900
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What are the traits of Romantic Era music?
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1. Individuality of Style
2. Expressive Aims (heart on sleeve) 3. Nationalism and Exoticism 4. Program Music 5. Emphasis on virtuosity |
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Program Music
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1. Instrumental music that tells a story/poem/idea/scene
2. Sonata form (w/ slow intro and coda) 3. Shakespeare and Goethe - very popular writers who inspired program music |
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Tone Color of Romantic Music
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1. More instruments (100+)
2. Harp, brass, percussion |
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Harmony of Romantic Music
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Chromatic - more chords and therefore richer
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Dynamics, pitch, and tempo of Romantic Music
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1. Very, very soft and then supremely loud
2. High pitch |
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Tempo Rubaro
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Speeding up or slowing down for expressive purposes
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Nicolo Paganini
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Virtuoso violinist of the 1830s
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Franz Schubert
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1. Contemporary Viennese composer
2. Composed individual songs as well as chamber music |
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Absolute Music
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Everything instrumental other than program music
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Art Song
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Work for solo voice w/ piano accompaniment
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German Lieder
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German serious composition made up of beautiful melodies and chromatic harmony
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Romantic Era Composers
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1. Feliz Mendelssohn
2. Robert Schumann 3. Frederick Chopin 4. Franz Liszt 5. Hector Berlioz 6. Bedrich Smetana 7. Antonin Dvorak |
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Felix Mendelssohn
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1. Most privileged upbringing
2. Wrote music for Midsummer Night's Dream 3. Violin Concerto in E Minor (most acclaimed) |
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Robert Schumann
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1. Named his son after Felix
2. Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik 3. Carnaval - piano composition for masked ball 4. Wrote "Chiarina" for child prodigy Clara Wieck, marries her 5. "Chopin", composed in Chopin's honor |
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Frederick Chopin
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1. "Poet of Piano"
2. Single instrament composer 3. Polish weakling 4. George Sand was the pen name of his lover 5. Nocturne in E flat Major to represent the night 6. Moved to Paris and taught piano to wealthy people 7. Etude Revolutionary - took an excercize and made it art |
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Franz Liszt
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1. Fan of Paganini
2. Wrote Symphonic (tone) poems 3. Writer of Transcendental Etudes |
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Hector Berlioz
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1. Flambouyant Parisian
2. Wrote Symphonie Fantastique 3. Invented term "idee fixe" |
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Nationalist Czechs
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1. Bedrich Smetana - wrote Ma Vlast (6 symphonies)
2. Antonin Dvorak - wrote New World symphony |