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Title: Style Periods


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Style Periods
  • Medieval 400 - 1450
  • Renaissance 1450 - 1600
  • Baroque 1600 - 1750
  • Classical 1750 - 1820
  • Romantic 1820 - 1900
  • 20th Century 1900 - Present

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Kamien textbook Part V, selected topics pp 208 -
283
  • The Romantic Period
  • (1820-1900)

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Romantic Music
  • Greater ranges of tone color, dynamics, and pitch
  • Harmonic vocabulary

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Musical Nationalism
  • Creating music with a specific national identity
  • (This contrasts the universal character of the
    Classic Era)

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Exoticism
  • Fascination with foreign lands
  • Unique rhythms
  • Unique instruments

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Program Music
  • Instrumental music associated with literature

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Rubato
  • The holding back or pressing forward of the tempo

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  • More public and private concerts
  • Amateur music making increased

Few composers were financially
successful
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Virtuosity Public was entranced by virtuosity
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Niccolo Paganini1782 - 1840
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The Lied or Art Song
  • A composition for solo voice and piano

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Franz 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

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Franz Schubert
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Robert Schumann page 2271810 -1856
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Robert Schumann
  • German composer
  • Music criticism
  • Married piano teachers famous daughter
  • Committed to asylum where he died

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Homework Listening disc 3
  • From Carnaval (1834) a cycle of program music
  • Estrella
  • Reconnaissance

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Clara Wieck at 17
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Clara Wieck Schumann1819 - 1896
  • Virtuoso pianist
  • Composer
  • Leading interpreter of the music of
  • Robert Schumann
  • Johannes Brahms

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Clara Wieck Schumann
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Listening Forum
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Homework Listening disc 3
  • Liebst du um Schonbeit
  • (If you love for beauty 1841)
  • Clara Wieck Schumann
  • Vocal Music Guide p. 232

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Frederic Chopin1810 - 1849
  • Virtuosic pianist
  • Composer - compositional output centered around
    the piano
  • Nationalist

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Chopin (1810 1849)
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Franz Liszt1811 - 1886
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Franz Liszt
  • Hungarian piano virtuoso
  • Avant-garde composer
  • Invented the Symphonic Poem
  • programmatic orchestral work in one movement

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Felix Mendelssohn1809 - 1847
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Felix Mendelssohn
  • German composer
  • Music rooted in classicism
  • Brilliant pianist
  • Rekindled interest in J. S. Bach

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Johannes Brahms (1833 1897) p 261
  • German master composer/pianist
  • Studied with Robert Schumann
  • Misplaced classicist
  • Studied earlier composers works in detail

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Johannes Brahms
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Older Brahms
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Brahms Masterpieces include
  • All traditional forms except opera
  • His first symphony was dubbed Beethovens
    tenth
  • Four symphonies

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Bedrich 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)

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Antonin 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

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Antonin Dvorak
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Peter Tchaikovsky p 2591840 -1893
  • Russian, Late Romantic
  • Fused Russian folk music and European style
  • Father of the Ballet

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Tchaikovsky1840 -1893
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Romantic Opera
  • The Golden Age of Opera

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Giuseppe Verdi (1813 1901)
  • Significant Italian opera composer
  • Wrote operas with political overtones
  • Critics blasted him for scandalous subjects

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Giuseppe Verdi
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Giacomo Puccini p 269(1858 1924)
  • Italian
  • Late Romantic Opera composer
  • Became wealthy and world famous

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Chapter 18 Richard Wagner
  • German (1813-1883)
  • Mid to late Romantic opera composer
  • Lived large off of othersran up debts

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Richard Wagner p 276(1813 1883)
  • German Opera composer
  • Complex music dramas
  • Innovative avant- guard harmonies

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The 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

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Homework 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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Wagner - 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.
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