Romanticism

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Chapter 16

• Romanticism
• (1770 - 1900)
• Reaction to Classicism

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Instrumental Music

• The Ideal Romantic Art
• the text of a vocal work limited its expressive
  range
• Schopenhauer
• instrumental music expresses the innermost
  reality of himan feelings

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Program Music

• Instrumental music associated with poetic,
  descriptive, or narrative subject matter.
• Program symphony
• Concert overture
• Symphonic Poem or Tone Poem
• Incidental Music

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Franz Peter Schubert

• The Unfinished Symphony
• Symphony No. 8
• (IG75)
• 9 symphonies total
• No. 9 The Great C Major Symphony

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Hector Berlioz

• Symphonie fantastique (105)
• autobiographical
• idée fixe
• Harold en Italie
• viola solo
• Roméo et Juliette
• Dramatic symphony in 7 movements for solo
  vocalists and chorus.

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Symphonie fantastique

• Mvt. IV, Marche au supplice
• idée fixe
• First Program Symphony

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Felix Mendelssohn

• Italian Symphony (No. 4)
• Scottish Symphony (No. 3)
• Hebrides - overture
• Overture to A Midsummer Nights Dream
• Incidental Music for A Midsummer Nights Dream

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Overture to A Midsummer Nights Dream

• Enchanted forest
• Wood nymphs
• King Oberons Court
• Lovers
• Acting Troupe
• Sonata Allegro Form

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Robert Schumann

• 4 symphonies
• No. 1 - Spring Symphony

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Franz Liszt

• 12 Symphonic poems
• Les Préludes
• Symphonies
• Faust Symphony
• Dante Symphony

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Johannes Brahms

• Academic Overture
• Tragic Overture
• Variations on a theme of Haydn

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Johannes Brahms, Symphonies

• 4 Symphonies.
• No. 1 took 20 years to write
• Beethovens 10th
• Symphony No. 4 -
• passacaglia/ chaconne theme with variations in
  Mvt. 4

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Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98

• Mvt. IV
• passacaglia/chaconne
• theme and 32 variations

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Anton Bruckner

• 9 1/2 symphonies
• Monumental in scale and character.
• Symphony No. 4 - Romantic Symphony

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Piotr Ilyyich Tchaikovsky

• 4, 5 and 6 are best known symphonies
• No. 6, the Pathétique
• Overtures 1812 Overture
• Romeo and Juliet Overture
• Ballets Nutcracker
• Swan Lake
• Sleeping Beauty

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Symphony No. 4 in F Minor

• Program symphony
• Sonata Allegro Form
• Introduction Knock of Fate
• Primary Anguish and Despair
• Secondary Escape from reality

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Antonin Dvorák

• 9 Symphonies
• No. 9 the From the New World
• Native American melodies
• Negro Spirituals