Instrumental Music of the Romantic Period

• THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

  • It was a major event in European history that began in 1789 and ended in 1799.
• Who left France close to backruptcy, and the peasants and urban pool could not keep up with the skyrocketing prices of basic goods such as bread?

  • KING LOUIS XVI
• A national assembly, made up of French citizens, who was able to force the King to adopt new policies and create a new constitution for France?

  Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
• Who eventually proclaimed himself Emperor of France in 1804, his reign, known as the Napoleonic Era?


  Napeleon Bonaparte
• When did the revolution ended?

  1799
• It was marked by a transition from goods made bt hand to goods manufactured by machines.

  • The late 18th century
• The industrial revolution was made possible because of the invention of what?

  Steam Engine and Water Mills
• Changes to the flute?

  Theobald Boehm
• Invention of the saxophone by?

  Belgian Manufacturer, Adolphe Sax
• Meaning of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite?

  Liberty, equality, fraternity
• Homes became places for friends and family to sing and play instruments like the piano, violin, flute, guitar, and harp.