Music

• Events and changes that happen in society such as ideas, attitudes, discoveries, inventions and historical events always affect music.

  Romantic Period
• Organ and harpsichord music popular in past eras were replaced by piano music. The piano provided a wide dynamic range, the ability to distinguish between loud and soft, and a large capacity for sonority
• It means "study" in French

  Etude
• It means "night piece" in French

  Nocturne
• It is a slow, lyrical, and intimate composition for piano solo.

  Nocturne
• It refers to a short, lyrical piece for piano.

  Romance
• A form of music that portrays an idea or relays a story to the audience.

  Program Music
• Program Music became the main form of instrument compositions which is evident in: Concert Overtures, Program Symphonies, Symphonic Poems, and Incidental Music.
• The Romantic era gave us some of the most incredibly complex and beautiful piano music.
• The main instrumental musical traits of the Romantic era were virtuosity, individualism, and nationalism (deliberate intent to device creative inspiration from the composers own homeland).
• It is a short piece of music, often performed as an introduction to a larger composition.

  Prelude
• However, during the Romantic period, composers wrote preludes that were meant to stand on their own.
• (French word "Nocturnal")

  Nocturne
• It was a piece of night music.

  Nocturne
• It is a melodic line played in a singing style, usually in the right-hand part, while accompanied by arpeggios underneath.

  Song without words
• Compositions made up on the spur of the moment.

  Impromptu
• music associated with Venetian gondoliers and usually has a swaying rhythm in 6/8 or 12/8 time.

  Barcarolle
• It is a type of music often quite, extensive, expressive, and difficult.

  Ballade
• It is a type of music where a musical theme a presented followed by a series of variations based on that theme.

  Theme and Variation
• Nocturnes Op 9 Prelude Etude

  Frederic Chopin
• Fantasy Impromptu – Op 66

  Frederic Chopin
• Minuet Waltz – Op 64 No. 1

  Frederic Chopin
• Fumeral March

  Frederic Chopin
• Revolutionary Etude – Op 10 No. 12

  Frederic Chopin
• Ballade No. 1 in G minor – Op 23

  Frederic Chopin
• Frederic Chopin

  Born: March 1, 1810, Zelazowa Wola

  Died: October 17, 1849, Paris
• The Nutcracker

  Peter Tchaikovsky
• Swan Lake

  Peter Tchaikovsky
• 1812 Overture

  Peter Tchaikovsky
• Romeo and Juliet

  Peter Tchaikovsky
• Piano Concerto No. I in B

  Peter Tchaikovsky
• Flat minor Op. 23

  Peter Tchaikovsky
• Sleeping Beauty

  Peter Tchaikovsky
• Peter Tchaikovsky

  Born: May 7, 1840, Votkinsk

  Died: November 6, 1893, Saint Petersburg
• Faust Symphony

  Franz Liszt
• Totentanz

  Franz Liszt
• Liebestraume

  Franz Liszt
• Hungarian Rhapsodies Originator of the Solo Piano Recital

  Franz Liszt
• Transcendental Etudes

  Franz Liszt
• Piano Sonata in B minor

  Franz Liszt