Music

• Nationalism and emotions is one of the main features of Romantic Period.
• Romantic composers drew inspiration from:

  • Own national folk traditions
  • Cultural heritage
• Romantic composers aimed to evoke powerful emotions, expressions, and stories.
• Some stories told through Romantic music are about love, heroism, nature, or supernatural.
• Classifications of Music:

  • Violin and String Music
  • Piano Music
  • Program Music
• Violin and String Music - Rich and expressive sound by bowing and finger techniques with soft and delicate melodies to powerful and passionate crescendos.
• Free Form

  Piano Music
• Tone Poem

  Program Music
• Program music conveys images or scenes to tell a short story with no text.
• Violin and Music Composer

  Niccolo Paganini
• Most famous violin virtuoso in the world

  Niccolo Paganini
• La Campanella and the Carnival of Venice

  Niccolo Paganini
• Poet of the Piano

  Frederic Chopin
• Chopin's music is characterized by tone, elegance, and grace.
• Ballade - Verse form consisting of three stanzas.
• Etude - Piece composed for the development of a point.
• Mazurka - Polish dance resembling the polka and ballet form in triple time signature.
• Nocturune - Pensive, and dreamy mood for the piano.
• Polonaise - March-like Polish dance, a promenade by couples.
• Prelude - Introductory performance
• Waltz - Piece of music for dance.
• Impromptu - Short composition performed offhand/extemporized.
• Scherzo - Playful character in ABA form.
• Sonata - Composition for one or more solo instruments.
• Virtuoso Pianist

  Franz Liszt
• Robert Schumann founded the music journal, Jornal Neue Zeitschrift fur Musik. He combined music and words in his works.
• Piano Composers

  Chopin, Liszt, Schumann
• Symphonie Fantastique

  Hector Berlioz
• Made tone color as basic part of musical language

  Hector Berlioz
• Known for his ballet music

  Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Creates elegant, neat, clean, polished, and never excessive music

  Camille Saint-Saens
• Program composers

  Berlioz, Tchaikovsky, Saint-Saens
• 1st movement - Reveries/Passions
• 2nd movement - A Ball
• 3rd movement - Scene in the Country
• 4th movement - March to the Scaffold
• 5th movement - Dream of a Witches Sabbath