ROMANTIC PERIOD

• Opera


  A musical composition having all or most of its text set to music with arias, recitative, choruses, duets, trios, etc. with orchestral accompaniment. Characterized by elaborate costumes, scenery and choreography.
• Vocal music, a form of expression became more evident during the Romantic period
• Romantic period's basic quality

  Emotional subjectivity
• Romantic composers


  • Explore feelings of intimacy, unpredictability, sadness, rapture and longing
• Romantic vocal forms


  • About fantasy, supernatural, romance and the nature as mirror of the human heart
• Romantic period


  • Virtuoso performers are not only instrumentalists but also singers
  • One singer sometimes sounds like several characters by use of different vocal register
  • Vocal music requires singers to perform a greater range of tone, color, dynamics and pitch