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Romantic Period
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- 1Romantic Period Dates1825-1900
- 2Cultural and Historical EventsIndividual emphasized, "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity"
The increasing role of science in defining worldview
Rise of European nationalism (many areas of Europe struggle to free themselves from foreign control)
Art removed from functional roles; appreciated for aesthetic worth - 3Musical ContextComposers gravitated toward supernatural texts and stories as sources for their compositions
Music used to tell stories or imply extramusical meaning
Became tool to mark national identity
Emphasis on intensely emotional expression in all the arts - 4Musical StyleLarger range of dynamics (orchestras increased in size)
Greater variety of instruments: newly invented (tuba and sax)
Melodies are longer, more "singable", dramatic, and emotional
Tempos more extreme
Harmonies fuller and more dissonant - 5Italian ComposersGiuseppe Verdi
Ruggiero Leoncavallo - 6German/Austrian ComposersFranz Schubert
Robert Schumann
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Richard Wagner
Johannes Brahms
Franz Liszt
Gustav Mahler
Richard Strauss - 7French ComposersHector Berlioz
Claude Debussy
Georges Bizet - 8Polish ComposersFrederic Chopin
- 9Russian ComposersPeter Ilich Tchaikovsky
Alexander Scriabin - 10United States ComposerAmy Beach
- 11Czechoslovakian ComposersBedrich Smetana
Antonin Dvorak - 12The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheFirst published in 1774. Influenced Romantic literature that followed. Collections of letters about Werther falling in love with Lotte who is engaged to a man named Albert. Werther becomes close friends both of the two and becomes depressed because he is in love with Lotte and can't have her. He decides between killing himself or the both of him. Decides to kill himself. Many people in the same predicament who read this book committed suicide because Werther did the same. Goethe wrote this because he had a similar incident with Charlotte Buff. She told him nothing would ever come of them so Goethe left without saying goodbye. Men would dress in the style of Werther.
- 13Composers of this period all played what instrument?Piano
- 14What nationality dominated the Romantic period?Germans
- 15RomanticismTerm applied to much of the music written between 1825 and 1900.
- 16Modal MixtureBlending of the major and minor modes, sometimes to the point of modal ambiguity.
- 17Foreign ModulationModulation to keys quite distant from the tonic of the composition
- 18Unresolved DissonanceDissonant chords that required resolutions, were sometimes left unresolved. Used for dramatic effect
- 19Nonfunctional HarmonyChords have been given Roman numerals, but they are not functionally related to each other
- 20Chromatic nonharmonic tonesMost popular in Romantic period were the chromatic appoggiaturas and passing tones
- 21Increased DissonanceMore frequent use of 7th, 9th, 11th, and 13th chords and augmented 6th chords
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