MUSIC Q3

• Romantic Music refers specifically to the period extending roughly from 1815 to 1900.
• Characteristics of Romantic Music

  Preference for a broader, more lyric, non-motivic thematic construction.
• Characteristics of Romantic Music

  Clarity, balance, regularity, and precision of classical composers, phrases, and periods of irregular lengths were often used.
• Cadences were often elided, providing for a more continuous flow of music.
• Classical balance between the principles of repetition, variation and contrast.
• Romantic Music was marked by emphasis on originality and individuality, personal emotional expression, and freedom and experimentation of form.
• Sectional Form - binary, compound ternary, rondo, and other forms like these were continued to be used in the Romantic Period.
• Sonata - allegro forms
• Variation Forms - the theme and variation was used for movements of a symphony, a sonata, or independent pieces.
• Free Form - the symphonic poem or tone poem is the most significant new instrumental form of the Romantic Period.
• Multi-Movement Instrumental Forms

  • Sonata
  • Chamber Music
  • Symphony
  • Concerto
• Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

  - took a position in the Ministry of Justice but longed for a career in music

  - He studied harmony and became a student of Nikolai Zaremba who later became the director of conservatory.

  His works are:

  Op. 11 String Quartet No. 1 in D (1871)

  Op. 75 Piano COncerto No.3 in E-flat (1893)
• Frederic Francois Chopin (1810-1901)

  • He was the master of the piano of his generation (a virtuoso in piano)
  • In his lifetime, he composed over 200 piano pieces.
  • He turned the piano into a more emotional tool than was ever thought possible

  His works:

  Revolutionary Etude, Opus 10, No. 12

  Les Audieuthe
• Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

  • He was a very musically talented child
  • He grew to appreciate the music of Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart.

  His works are:

  Der Erlkonig

  Die Forelle

  Ave Maria
• Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

  • He began his musical career by playing the piano.
  • He composed several waltzes.
  • It took Brahms more than 10 years to write his composition, which was hailed as "Beethoven's Tenth"

  His works are:

  Intermezzo Op. 117 No.1 in E-flat major

  No.2 in B-flat Major

  Cantata Rinaldo
• Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)

  • He was the only virtuoso in playing violin in the Romantic Period.
  • He was also a trailblazer

  His works are:

  Le Streghe

  The Carnival of Venice