Romantic music

week in we learned about music and philosophers in the 1800’s. We learned the 1800’s was the emancipation of music from language. One of the ideas was that music is able to do what language cannot. It was stating that sometimes we cannot explain our emotions or what we want to say. Therefore, we use music to express what we cannot say. In some ways, music was like a process of philosophy. The romantics was when literature, paintings, and art were important. With the romantics, everyone forgot…

analyzing. The students who performed Chanson d’amour, Op.27, No.1 by Gabriel Faure were Carol Szwei and Will Jordan. Carol Szwei was the singer and she is a mezzo soprano. Will Jordan accompanied her and played the piano. The students who performed “If Music be the Food of Love” composed by Henry Purcell were Emily Skoutelas and Diana Zorin. Emily Skoutelas was the singer and she is a soprano. Diana Zorin accompanied her and played the piano. The Art Song Recital at Hunter College consisted…

Question 5: What is the genre of the composition you hear in you clip? Genre - Ballet Classical during the Romantic Period At the middle of the eighteenth century, harmony technique were established. While the innovation shifted, variations travelled to northern Germany which began to develop. Romanticism also known as the Romantic era, was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that blended into the classical movement throughout Europe, over the course of the eighteenth century,…

Changes in society, beginning in the 18th century to the mid 19th century and continuing into our own time, underlie the romantic movement.Romantics abondoned many dominant attitudes and prinicples of previous age.Romanticism was a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality, physicl materialism and Classicism of 18th century.Romanticism focused on personal emotions, the individual, the subjective, irrational, the imaginative.Their deep love,…

related to the nature of the speaker and the content of the poems. William Blake (1757-1827) is one of the Romantic poets, whose poetry and artwork became part of Romanticism in late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century in European Culture. William Blake wrote in the time when the world was seeing a sudden change in many phases with the industrial revolution especially in Europe. Blake’s collections of poems in the Songs of Innocence and Experience exemplify the world around him in two…

of Myself, written by Walt Whitman, respectively. The tenets of Romanticism can be seen be analyzing Thanatopsis, Transcendentalism and its tenets are shown in Song of Myself, and both can be seen to be very similar. Thanatopsis is very clearly a Romantic poem. Many, if not all, of the tenets of Romanticism can be seen in the poem. The tenet that is most seen throughout the…

French Revolution and its aftermath. It is somewhat ironic to state that Shelley, ‘the true child of the revolution’1 was also a pacifist. Ironic, since the very French Revolution which is cited by most as one of the dominant influences on British Romantic literature, was done with its honeymoon period; the republic had been replaced by the First Empire- and more importantly, the revolution had had its fill of innocent lives by the time Shelley began to endorse…

William Wordsworth is an English poet who lived from 1770 to 1850, he was born on the 7th of April 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, in the northwest of England, he is considered as one of the greatest poet in the romantic era, which is also called the Romanticism, He was an early leader of it, Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, it emphasis upon the power and terrors of the inner imaginative life. The…

interest in the common man and strong senses of emotion, all these of which I believe analyzation is necessary. Although all writing by authors during the Romantic period was stunning and at times was very complex, some compositions possess a better demonstration of the characteristics of Romanticism than others. I believe that the most romantic work, although not written during…

West Side Story is a romantic musical film, that is compared to a ‘ Romeo and Juliet’ story. The musical explores a wide variety of themes. Some of the main themes include racism, sexism and loyalty. These themes are still relevant today however, they may be different to us. The choreographer uses dance throughout wisely, to help get different points across. Racism is one of the main themes throughout and shapes a lot of the film. The two sides Sharks and Jets, Sharks ( Puerto Ricans), Jets (…