Title: Style Periods
1Style Periods
- Medieval 400 - 1450
- Renaissance 1450 - 1600
- Baroque 1600 - 1750
- Classical 1750 - 1820
- Romantic 1820 - 1900
- 20th Century 1900 - Present
2Kamien textbook Part V, selected topics pp 208 -
283
- The Romantic Period
- (1820-1900)
3Romantic Music
- Greater ranges of tone color, dynamics, and pitch
- Harmonic vocabulary
4Musical Nationalism
- Creating music with a specific national identity
- (This contrasts the universal character of the
Classic Era)
5Exoticism
- Fascination with foreign lands
- Unique rhythms
- Unique instruments
6Program Music
- Instrumental music associated with literature
7Rubato
- The holding back or pressing forward of the tempo
8- More public and private concerts
- Amateur music making increased
Few composers were financially
successful
9Virtuosity Public was entranced by virtuosity
10Niccolo Paganini1782 - 1840
11The Lied or Art Song
- A composition for solo voice and piano
12Franz Schubert page 222Early Romantic Composer
- Born in Vienna (1797-1828)
- Prolific output
- Not financially successful
- At 19 years of age, wrote 179 works
- Master of the art song
13Franz Schubert
14Robert Schumann page 2271810 -1856
15Robert Schumann
- German composer
- Music criticism
- Married piano teachers famous daughter
- Committed to asylum where he died
16Homework Listening disc 3
- From Carnaval (1834) a cycle of program music
- Estrella
- Reconnaissance
17Clara Wieck at 17
18Clara Wieck Schumann1819 - 1896
- Virtuoso pianist
- Composer
- Leading interpreter of the music of
- Robert Schumann
- Johannes Brahms
19Clara Wieck Schumann
20Listening Forum
21Homework Listening disc 3
- Liebst du um Schonbeit
- (If you love for beauty 1841)
- Clara Wieck Schumann
- Vocal Music Guide p. 232
22Frederic Chopin1810 - 1849
- Virtuosic pianist
- Composer - compositional output centered around
the piano - Nationalist
23Chopin (1810 1849)
24Franz Liszt1811 - 1886
25Franz Liszt
- Hungarian piano virtuoso
- Avant-garde composer
- Invented the Symphonic Poem
- programmatic orchestral work in one movement
26Felix Mendelssohn1809 - 1847
27Felix Mendelssohn
- German composer
- Music rooted in classicism
- Brilliant pianist
- Rekindled interest in J. S. Bach
28Johannes Brahms (1833 1897) p 261
- German master composer/pianist
- Studied with Robert Schumann
- Misplaced classicist
- Studied earlier composers works in detail
29Johannes Brahms
30Older Brahms
31Brahms Masterpieces include
- All traditional forms except opera
- His first symphony was dubbed Beethovens
tenth - Four symphonies
32Bedrich Smetana p 253 1824 -1884
- Nationalist composer, pianist, conductor
- Founder of Czech national music
- Became deaf at age 50
- Most famous work The Moldau (1874)
33Antonin Dvorak p 255(1841 1904)
- Followed Smetana composing Czech national music
- Became director of the National Conservatory of
Music in New York - Most famous work New World Symphony
34Antonin Dvorak
35Peter Tchaikovsky p 2591840 -1893
- Russian, Late Romantic
- Fused Russian folk music and European style
- Father of the Ballet
36Tchaikovsky1840 -1893
37Romantic Opera
38Giuseppe Verdi (1813 1901)
- Significant Italian opera composer
- Wrote operas with political overtones
- Critics blasted him for scandalous subjects
39Giuseppe Verdi
40Giacomo Puccini p 269(1858 1924)
- Italian
- Late Romantic Opera composer
- Became wealthy and world famous
41Chapter 18 Richard Wagner
- Mid to late Romantic opera composer
- Lived large off of othersran up debts
42Richard Wagner p 276(1813 1883)
- German Opera composer
- Complex music dramas
- Innovative avant- guard harmonies
43The Ring of Nibelung (Ring cycle - four operas)
- Fused elements of mythology, symbolism, poetry,
and philosophy - 19 ½ hours long!
- Performance at Bayreuth in 1876 an important
musical event of the century
44Homework Listening disk 4
- Die Walkure (The Valkyrie, 1856)
- Richard Wagner
- Act I Love scene (conclusion)
- Storyline of the Ring Cycle this scene (p.
278) - Vocal Music Guide p. 280
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45Wagner - German Nationalist
- Anti-Semitic
- Selfish and ruthless
- Absolute self-conviction about his place in
history - I am the most German of beings. I am the German
spirit.