Frédéric Chopin

Unit four of the textbook is about music in the nineteenth century, and the first part of this section starts by dedicating a whole chapter to Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven was a true genius, his music is still widely popular until today. His style of music was mostly Classical, he was a student of Haydn. One of Beethoven 's first work that really showed his his individuality as an artist was his symphony called Bonaparte. This symphony was written in honor of Napoleon Bonaparte, but later on,…

Katherine Siochi, Harp and Piano On Sunday, January 22, 2017, at 3pm Katherine Siochi played several compositions by a variety of composers on her harp and the piano. The performance took place at the Trinity Episcopal Church in Watertown, New York. The artist, who wore a formal dress in turquoise, brought her own harp from New York City for this recital and the harp stood precisely in front of the altar of the church. Thirty minutes before the concert started, I arrived. Although, I have seen…

According to Jason Rentfrow, Ph.D., the “Big 5” personality traits are: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, Neuroticism, and Openness to Experience (Rentfrow, 2009). To determine my own personality traits, I took a version of the International Personality Item Pool test located at psychcentral.com, I found my scores of these five traits to be: extraversion 27, agreeableness 36, conscientiousness 33, neuroticism 24, and openness 33 (Goldberg et al., 2006). While the test did not…

Compare and Contrast of Romanticism and Realism Romanticism replaced neoclassicism in the 1800-1900 century in France. Romantic artist abandoned traditional warmness and as an alternative reflected on the artist innermost feelings. The romantic artist images are composed of dark, romantic, mystery and thoughtfulness. They appreciated creativeness and exclusiveness above cleverness and talent instead of outdated methods, which concentrated closely on imitating the conventional ways. Furthermore,…

Most significantly in terms of influencing the Romantic Era, An die ferne Geliebte was the very first example of a form known as Liederkreis ("song cycle"), a form that reached its height later in the century in the vocal works of such Romantic composers as Franz Schubert and, in particular, Robert Schumann and Carl Loewe. Is the cycle the first of the Liederkreis genre? One could argue that the piece serves as more of a proto-Liederkreis, or an earlier form of the song cycle. It is certain…

emotion driven and self expressing music, the Romantic period utilised instruments like the contrabassoon, xylophone, drum, celeste and piccolo. As mentioned previously, Beethoven’s music paved the way for composers of the Romantic Period such as Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Previous rules were thrown out the window in order to create new sounds filled with passion. Operas like Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata became very popular showcasing the evolution…

“A real musical culture should not be a museum culture based on music of past ages... It should be the active embodiment in sound of the life of a community- of the everyday demands of people’s work and play and of their deepest spiritual needs.” (Wilfred Mellers, pg. 54). Music is always changing and adapting based on how people feel and what people like. Some people prefer to listen to choral works, while others are more interesting in instrumental music. Throughout history we have been able…