The Romantic Era

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The Romantic Era

• Program Music

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Romantic Program Music

• Program Music - Music that "has a literary or
  pictorial association."
• i.e. music that tells a story
• Concert overture
• Incidental music
• Program symphony
• Symphonic Poem.

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The Romantic Era 1825 - 1900

• Program Symphony
• Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
• Symphonie fantastique
• (1830)

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The Romantic Era 1825 - 1900

• Harriet Smithson, idée fixe
• Symphonie fantastique
• Reveries - Passions
• A Ball
• Scene in the Country
• Fourth Movement - March to the Scaffold
• Dream of a Witches' Sabbath

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Romantic Program Music

• Musical Nationalism
• Grieg (Norway), Sibelius (Finland), Musorgsky
  (Russia)
• Bedrich Smetana - Czech (1824 - 1884)
• The Moldau
• ( 1874-79)

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Smetana The Moldau Listening (First Theme)

• Melody - Theme is conjunct
• Rhythm - Compound meter
• Harmony - Minor
• Texture - Homophonic
• Form - Determined by the program
• Expression - Extremes of dynamics and tempo
• Instrumentation - Full Symphony Orchestra