Romantic Era

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Romantic Era

• Log check
• Study Guide

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Romantic Era Logs

• Schubert Erkönig
• Schumann Romance in Eb Minor, Op. 11, No.1
• Chopin Etude in C Minor, Op. 10
• Mendelssohn Concerto in E Minor for Violin and
  Orchestra
• Smetana The Moldau (self-guided study)
• Dvorák Symphony No. 9, Mvt 1 (self-guided study)
• Puccini La Bohéme (brief self-guided study)
• Wagner Die Walkürie

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Romantic Era topicsSome of the terms on this and
the following slides have importance or
application in both music and the Romantic
culture at large. Understand the BIG picture.

• Romanticism, Victorian Era, Queen Victoria
• Irony (as seen in, e.g., Erlking, La Bohème )
• Fantasy
• Nature
• Pop culture, journalism, musical celebrities
  (stars,e.g., Liszt, Schumann, Paganini)
• Orchestra development, orchestration (How does it
  change from the Classical orchestra?)
• Absolute music vs. program musicdefine
• Miniature vs. monumental

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Romantic Era topics

• Through-composed vs. strophic music
• Art song (German Lied), song cycle
• Tempo rubato
• Music drama
• Unending melody
• Leitmotif
• Gesamkunstwerk
• Atonality (the push toward it there is NO
  atonality in the 19th C.

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Romantic Era topics

• Program music--define
• program symphony
• concert overture
• symphonic poem (tone poem)
• incidental music
• -ISMs
• romanticism
• cyclicism
• emotionalism
• nationalism
• exoticism
• journalism
• monumentalism

Know the unique features of each program genre.
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Romantic composersKnow their music and their
contributions to Romantic culture.

• Schubert
• Schumann
• Chopin
• Mendelssohn
• Smetana
• Dvorák
• Puccini
• Wagner