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What does the term Romantic mean?
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Characterisics of the Romantic Period
What does the term Romantic mean?
- The Romantic movement in music coincides with a general romantic movement in all arts
- Music is not as reliant on repetition as in classical music
- The music often directly tells a story
- Exploration of tone colors
- Much bigger orchestras
- Popularity of chamber music
- Music is highly emotional
- Poetry and music are intimately fused
- At This period, the arts of literature and painting began to influence music
- In the Romantic Era, Music acquired poetic or philosophical meaning
- Antiquity, folklore, history, and exotic cultures were examined as possible sources of information
General Music Characteristics
Famous Composers
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Individuality
- Expressive Aims and Subjects
- Nationalism and exoticism
- Rise and importance of program music
- Frederick Chopin
- Franz Liszt
- Hector Berlioz
- Johannes Brahms
- Modest Mussorgsky
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Richard Wagner
- Russian Composer
- Wrote 11 operas, 4 concertos, 6 symphonies, and 3 ballets
- Mos remembered for his ballets: Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake
- Music is intense: Melancholy & Emotional
- It has been speculated he committed suicide.
Opera
Musical Innovations
- Very popular during romantic era
- Composers focused on melody an themes
- Huge interest in songs written as part of a cycle: a complete st
- invention of the song cycle
- Invention of the symphonic poem
- Great works written for solo piano
- Composers stretches the listeners ear by creating a great deal of dissonance using chromatic notes, and extensions of the triad
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