MUSIC

• ROMANTIC PERIOD Also known as “The Age of Golden Virtuoso” Spanned from 1820 to 1900.
• ROMANTIC PERIOD is the Most short-lived among the other period
• THEATER / OPERA - It is the integration of music, drama, and visual arts made theater music a desired form of the romantic period.
• OPERA - was described as entertainment where “Intellect and every noblest sentiment are fascinated at one and the same moment by the most delectable art ever devised by human genius.”

  • -Gasta, 2013
• The first opera was given in Florence, using a Greek myth as a subject where used as a concept part of the marriage of the King of France (King Henry II) to an Italian princess (Catherine De Medici) (1533).
• ARIA

  -is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompaniment.

  -It is to give the leading character the moment to express their deep feelings of love, farewell, and the like.
• RECITATIVE

  • It is a style of delivery in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms and delivery of ordinary speech
  • does not repeat lines as formally composed songs do.
  • can be more improvisatory and free for the singer.
• CHORUSES

  • Generally expresses the moods of the opera.
• LIBRETTO

  • Also called “little book”

  It contains the music pieces of opera that were based on the story of Ancient Greeks.
• LIBRETTO

  • When the musician starts to play the piece, it is called an "opera score”
• The player of libretto is called a “Librettist”
• GRAND OPERA

  • known as serious works in the mid-nineteenth century, which became generally popular until today.
  • It is a long-duration opera with a serious story.
• OPERETTA

  • is a small opera where the characters speak between songs, unlike an opera where the entire drama is set to a piece of music.
  • is meant mainly for entertainment, where there are lovely cheerful melodies, comic situations, and light romance.

  There are no such things as a tragic operetta.
• ART SONG

  • his is a new genre where the compositions are short and romantic composed of poetry and music.
  • Folksongs triggered the existence of Art Songs.
  • Some examples of art songs are used to teach the students about life essentials, instructions, etc.
• FRANZ PETER SCHUBERT

  • Austrian composer, from Vienna Austria.
  • He is noted for the melody and harmony in his songs (lieder) and chamber music.
• RICHARD WAGNER

  • was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas.
  • His dream was to become a poet and playwright, but he was overwhelmed by Beethoven’s music and decided to become a composer.
• GIUSEPPE VERDI

  • leading Italian composer of opera in the 19th century noted for operas such as Rigoletto (1851)

  Il Trovatore (1853)

  La Traviata (1853)

  Don Carlos (1867)

  Aida (1871)

  Otello (1887)

  Falstaff (1893)

  Requiem Mass (1874)
• GIACOMO PUCCINI

  • Italian composer, one of the greatest exponents of operatic realism, virtually brought the history of Italian opera to an end. His mature operas included La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and Turandot (left incomplete).
• Folksongs triggered the existence of Art Songs.