The Enjoyment of Music 10th Shorter Edition

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The Enjoyment of Music 10th Shorter Edition
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Part 7 The Nineteenth Century
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Unit XV The Romantic Movement
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest
influence over the passions. Napoleon
Bonaparte
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40. The Spirit of Romanticism

• French Revolution, bourgeois society
• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
• Romantic poets and artists turned to the
  passionate and fanciful
• Bohemian artists
• Novelists
• Hugo
• Emily Brontë
• Tolstoy
• Dumas
• Coleridge
• Hawthorne
• Poe

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40. Romanticism in Music

• Industrial Revolution
• Valves added to brass instruments
• Cast-iron frame and thicker strings in piano

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40. Romanticism in Music

• Music conservatories in Europe and the Americas
• Orchestral size
• Music moved from palace and church to concert
  hall
• New levels of expression
• Art of orchestration

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40. Romanticism in Music

• Nationalistic folklore and exotic subjects
• Folk songs and dances

Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2
Smetana The Moldau
Grieg Peer Gynt Suite, No. 1, Ases Death
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Romantic Style Traits
We have learned to express the more delicate
nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply
into the mysteries of harmony. Robert Schumann

• Memorable melodies
• Expressive harmony
• Expanded forms
• Making instruments sing
• Chromaticism and dissonance
• Longer symphonies

Verdi La donna è mobile
Wagner Prelude to Tristan and Isolde
Dvorák Symphony No. 9, II
Wagner. Die Walküre, Act I
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The Musician in Society

• Rise of the virtuoso soloist and amateur music
  making
• Public concert hall and salons
• Musicians and audience as equals
• Soloists and conductors idolized
• Mendelssohn, Liszt, Paganini
• Amateur music making

Felix Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn Piano Trio No. 1
Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2
Franz Liszt
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Women in Music

• Performers, teachers, composers

Clara Schumann
Amy Cheney Beach
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
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Women in Music

• Patrons
• George Sand
• Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein
• Nadezhda von Meck

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