Instrumental Music of the Romantic Period

• Romantic period - It is a stylistic movement in Western orchestral music associated with the period of the 19th century commonly referred to as the Romantic Era.
• Absolute music - It is instrumental music written without program intention. It is music written for its own sake.
• Incidental music - It is the type of music intended for, before and during a stage play performance to set the mood for the most scenes and to highlight dramatic action.
• Program music -  It is a new development during the Romantic period. The music is associated with story and poem.
• Program music - It is reserved for pure instrumental works.
• Program Symphonie - It is an instrumental composition in several movements based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea
• Symphonic Poem - It a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on a literary or pictorial idea.
• Symphonic Poem -It is developed by Franz Liszt
• Symphonic Poem - A piece of orchestral music, usually in a single continuous movement, which illustrates or evokes the content of a poem, short story, novel, painting, landscape or other non-musical source.
• Accelerando - Refers to a slight speeding up of the tempo.
• Ritardando - Pertains to a slight slowing down of the tempo.
• Rubato - It is used to exaggerate the expression of the music.
• Rubato - It is the slight holding back or pressing forward of tempo.
• Thematic Transformation - Pertains to the altering of the character of a melody by changes in dynamics, orchestration or rhythm.
• Romantic Art Song - It is a musical composition for solo voice and piano.
• Lied -It is a Romantic Art Song with German content.
• Strophic - It refers to the form when there is repetition of the same music for each stanza of a poem.
• Through Composed - It is the form when a composer writes a new music foe each stanza of a poem.
• Song cycle - It is a term for a set of romantic art songs that may be combined in a story line that runs through the poems, or by musical ideas connecting the songs.
• Franz Schubert - He was the first romantic art song great master
• Franz Schubert - He was known mainly as a fine song composer until the time of his death.
• Frederic Chopin - He made the piano the voice of Romanticism.
• Etude -( French for “study”) is a work to illustrate and develop a specific technical skill.
• Nocturne - Reflects the subjective feeling of an artist at night.
• Prelude - Is a work written with each piece has its own idea and mood.
• Stylized dance - It was written inspired by his native Poland
• Mazurka - It is Slavic dance
• POLONAISE - it is a heroic dance
• Waltz - It is a dance characterized “with a great charm and lighter in spirit”
• PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY - He was a Russian composer whose works include ballets, chamber and choral music
• PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY- First Russian composer whose music made a lasting impression internationally
• Franz Liszt - His dramatic showmanship made him a successful concert pianists and outstanding piano virtuoso.
• FRANZ LISZT - He is responsible in creating the words symphonic poem/tone poem.
• CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS - He was a composer, conductor, organist and pianist
• CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS -He is noted for his “The Carnival of the Animals”
• CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS - Known by his pen name “Sannois”
• FREDERIC CHOPIN - He was born on March 1, 1810 from a Polish mother and a French father