Romantic era 1850-1920 C.E

ROMANTIC ERA1850-1920 C.E

By: Nathan Wells

A love for ones country

Something for music that has a meaning.

An unpleasant effect

Something not put together properly.

ARTISTIC FREEDOMNationalism Dissonance

Artistic Freedom with nationalism and dissonance is connected Because you do something that has a meaning, and not yet put together.

ROMANTIC ERA INVENTIONS

1840- First electric light bulb.

1876- Bell invents the telephone.

1877- Edison invents the phonograph, patented in

1878.

1883- automobile motor patented by Daimler.

Europe is in charge of Germans.

one could divide the main part of the Romantic era into two schools of composers.

GERMAN POLITICS

*music is clearly Romantic in style and feeling.

*Composers are d definite with pushing boundaries.

Civil war is a fight against culture and society or nationality over political power.

It was caused by the growing economic power of to the south

WARS

Music evolves from the society which its created.

For example the improvements to the machines in the industrial revolution contributed to the improvements in the workings of the instruments.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

The social developments was the rise of middle class music.

Romantic composer did not feel constrained by form. Breaking through boundaries was now an honorable goal shared by the scientist, the inventor, and the political liberator. Music was no longer universal; it was deeply personal and sometimes nationalistic.

SOURCES

The music of the romantic era

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