Music Instrumental of Romantic Period

• Classical music is simple, with structural clarity.
• Romantic music is complex, explores the use of large ensembles, and is characterized by extreme emotions and wild orchestration.
• Music is affected by events in the society, ideas, attitudes, discoveries, inventions, and historical events.
• The Romantic Period flourished during the 1820-1900.
• The aim of Romantic composers was the expression of emotions.
• Romantic Music is characterized by freedom of form and design, emphasis on lyrical melodies as well as rich chromatic harmonies and discords, a sense of vagueness, and denser textures with bold dramatic contrast of dynamics and pitch.
• During the Romantic Period, the orchestra was expanded and a rich variety of types of pieces were composed.
• Romantic composers showed keen interest in programme music.
• Shape was brought to work through the use of recurring themes in Romantic Music.
• Great technical virtuosity was a characteristic of the Golden Age of Virtuoso, where the most difficult music would be performed with ease.
• New genres in music during the Romantic Period included Programmatic music, Absolute Music or Non-program music, Program Symphony, and Symphonic Poem.
• Vocal Music during the Romantic Period included Romantic Art Song, Song Cycle, and Lied.
• Etude means "study" - to help students learn
• Nocturne means "night piece" - slow, lyrical and intimate composition for piano solo
• Romance short lyrical piece for the piano
• Polonaise court dance piano composition in a triple meter
• Programmatic music is instrumental music associated with a story or poem
• Absolute Music or Non-program music is written for its own sake not for the program
• Program Symphony is a composition in several movements based on literary or pictorial idea
• Symphonic Poem is a large free form in one movement
• Incidental Music is intended to be performed before and during a play to set mood for scene
• Romantic Art Song is a musical composition for solo voice and piano often set by a brief piano introduction and summed up at the end by a piano section called a postlude.
• Song Cycle is a group of songs by one composer based on poems all written by the same poet.
• Lied is a romantic art song with a German text.
• Stressed:

  Emotion

  Imagination

  Individualism

  Allowed:

  Artistic Freedom

  Experimentation

  • Creativity
• 4 Musical forms:

  1. Etude - means "study" - to help students learn
  2. Nocturne - means "night piece" - slow, lyrical and intimate composition for piano solo
  3. Romance - short lyrical piece for the piano
  4. Polonaise - court dance piano composition in a triple meter
• 5 New Genres:

  1. Programmatic music - instrumental music associated with a story or poem
  2. Absolute Music or Non-program music - written for its own sake not for the program
  3. Program Symphony - composition in several movements based on literary or pictorial idea
  4. Symphonic Poem - large free form in one movement
  5. Incidental Music - intended to be performed before and during a play to set mood for scene
• Vocal Music during the Romantic Period:

  1. Romantic Art Song - musical composition for solo voice and piano often set by a brief piano introduction and summed up at the end by a piano section called a postlude.
  2. Song Cycle - a group of songs by one composer based on poems all written by the same poet. The theme may be a story or it may be simply a mood.
  3. Lied - romantic art song with a German text