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Romantic Period
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Romantic Period
Suppressed revolution
French emotional reactionMiddle class dominance
Underclass causes adoptedFrustrations caused by Napoleon
Revolution of 1848
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Principles of the Romantic Era
Restriction no longer important
Emphasis on emotion rather thanreason
Nationalism Stories depicted
Nature in a mystical way Exotic
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"The use ofromanticin English goes back to the 17C when it was usedto denote imagination and inventiveness in storytelling and, soon after,
to characterize scenery and paintings. It served as a synonym toharmonious, picturesque. At the core of the epithet, obviously, is aproper name: Rome, Roman. From the start, the image is many-sided.Centuries after the fall of the empire, the vernacular spoken along theMediterranean was no longer vulgar Latin but a variable dialect called
roman. From it came French, Spanish, Italian, and other romancelanguages.. After a time, roman was applied to tales written in thatdialect as spoken inn southern France. These tales were often aboutlove and adventure, as contrasted with epic narratives or satires. InFrench today the word for novel is still roman, while in English aromance is one kind of novel and by further extension one kind of loveaffair... In the last years of the 18C, Romanticgenerated the -ist formto designate those dissatisfied with the neo-classic style andenthusiastic about new forms in art and thought... The one link
between the temper of the period and the original meaning of the wordis that Romanticism validated passion and risk. The two are inevitablyconnected; but as we shall see, they neither exclude reason, noroverlook the real. On the contrary, the spirit of adventure inRomanticism aims at enlarging experience by exploring the real."
Barzun, Jacques, From Dawn to Decadence, Perennial, 2000, p467-8.
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Characteristics of Music
Departure from Classical era
Message in the music (One worddescription?) Haydn vs. Beethoven
Beethovens 5th in minor/major key Loss of power in the major
Beethovens 5th in style of Haydn
Loss of power
Use of dynamics
Orchestra grew in size
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Characteristics of Music
Emotional directions
Folk songs Longer symphonies
Virtuosos
Underlying themes carried throughout thesymphony
Beethovens 5th 1st Theme (dark)
2nd Theme (light)
3rd
Movement (theme revisited) Triumph of light
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Beethoven
Bridged Classical andRomantic periods
Form used contextually Motifs
Works as attempts for
perfection Manifested Romantic ideal
Pastoral, Symphony No. 6
Symphony 9, Ode to Joy Eroica
Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor,
Pathetique
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Hector Berlioz
French composer
Story printed in program Symphonie Fantastique
Requiem
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Franz Schubert
Vienna Austria
Child prodigy Wrote liedersongs with
emotional theme
Erlknig Song cycle
Wrote for fewer instruments Unfinished Symphony
Symphony in C major
Many works were lost
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Felix Mendelssohn
Early life
Tried to preserve Classicalstyle
Brought Bach out of obscurity Symphonies were classical
form and romantic tone
Midsummer Nights Dream
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Nicolo Paganini
Italian
Violin virtuosos Ghoulish appearance
The Cannon
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Frederic Chopin
Child prodigy
Sickly his whole life Made money by giving
piano concerts Composed mazurkas,
preludes and polonaisesEtude Opus 10
Polonaise in A flat major
Minute Waltz
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Franz Liszt
Hungarian child prodigy
Greatest showman Kind to other musicians
Several love affairs Les Preludes
Hungarian Rhapsody 2 Wilde Jagd
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Richard Wagner
German nationalism
Not a prodigy Immoral life
Ludwig II
Opera Leitmotif
Depicted myths and heroes Die Walkre (Ride of the Valkyries)
Tannhuser (end of the overture)
Tristan and Isolde (Unresolved Liebestod)
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Giuseppe Verdi
Greatest Italian style opera
Aida La Traviata
Rigoletto
La Donna e Mobile
Innovation
Focus on human emotion
De-emphasis on bel-canto style Rossini: Barber of Seville
Excellent librettos
Orchestra an important component
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Bedrich Smetana
Czech
Bartered Bride Die Moldau
River running through Prague
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Johann Strauss
Father was excellent
composer Played in fathers orchestra
More popular than his father Waltzes
Embodiment of Viennese lifeBlue Danube Waltz
Tales of the Vienna Woods
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Johann Brahms
German
Imitated Beethoven Mentored by Robert and Clara
Schumann Hungarian Dance #5
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Russian Composers
Moussorgsky,Balakirev, Borodin, Cui,
Rimsky-KorsakovRussian Easter Overture
Used Russian themes Helped each other
Flight of the Bumble Bee Night on Bald Mountain
Almaty, Kazakhstan
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Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky
Russian
Used French style Ballets are most famous
Nutcracker, Sleeping BeautyRomeo and Juliet
Deep emotion for his sad lifeSymphony No. 6 Pathtique
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Edvard Grieg
Norwegian
Peer GyntHall of the Mountain King
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Antonin Dvorak
Czech
Inspired by Smetana Head of Conservatory in
Prague Director of a NY music
conservatory3 years
Composed New World
Symphony
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Gustav Mahler
Jewish
The Hunters FuneralProcession
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Principles of Art
Abandoned strict rules of neoclassical
Conveyed personal feeling of artist Used nationalism
Depicted the exotic Landscapes became important
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"If you want to do art
you must first study therules, second study thegreat masters, thirdforget the rules,because genius begins
where trite rules endbut you can't get thereuntil you've obeyed the
rules first." Sir Joshua Reynolds
(1723-1792)
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Francisco Goya -
Classical Period
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Franciso Goya Romantic Period3rdof May 1808
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Goya
Saturn DevouringOne of His Sons
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Eugene Delacroix
Liberty Leading the People
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Delacroix
The Death of Sardanapalus
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
The Fighting "Temeraire"
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
The Slave Ship
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"From the early 16C to the end of the 18Ccommon opinion held that religious and
history painting were the highest genres.The one edified, the other reminded; bothdecorated. Portraits came next, landscapeslagged behind. For nature was not yetloved for itself alone. In the early
Renaissance it served as a backgroundonly, and even then it was 'humanized' bythe presence of temples, columns, or other
architectural fragments, along with actualfigures."
Barzun, Jacques, From Dawn to Decadence,
Perennial, 2000, p71.
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John ConstableHay Wain
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Literature
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Raised the level of
German literature The Sufferings of Young
Werther Dr. Faustus
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Sir Walter Scott
Scotland
Historical novels Influenced by Goethe
Popular in his own life Ivanhoe
Lady of the Lake
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William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge English
Lyrical balladsRime of the Ancient Mariner
Themes: relationship betweenhumans and nature
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Lord Byron
Art was an inner expression
Participation in revolutions Strong personality
Italy and Switzerland Childe Harold
The Flying Dutchman The Wandering Jew
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
English
Strongly liberal Friends with Lord Byron
Married Mary WollstonecraftFrankenstein
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Leo Tolstoy
Russian
War and PeaceAnna Karenina
Born to nobility but livedon simple farm
Freed the serfs
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Victor Hugo
Son of Napoleonic general
Involved in French politics Les Miserables
Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Alexandre Dumas
Imitated style of Scott
Novels supportedextravagant life
Employed several people Count of Monte Cristo
The Three Musketeers The Man in the Iron Mask
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