Instrumental Music of the Romantic Period

Instrumental Music of the Romantic Period

Famous Composers of the Romantic Period

The piano music of the period is in free form such as fantasy, rhapsody, ballade and nocturne.

Chopin's famous kinds of music:

Program Music

Ballade- is a short, lyrical piece of music for piano.

Etude- a short musical composition for one instrument to improve the technique or demonstrate the skill of the player.

Mazurka- a Polish dance in triple time signature.

Nocturne-an instrumental composition for romantic or dreamy character suggestive of night.

Polonaise- a slow polish dance in triple time that consist of march or procession.

Background of Romantic Music

is expressed in tone poems and most of the compositions portray literature, history, emotions, and nature.

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

Saint-Saens' musical Works:

Romantic music

• He was the great composer who wrote almost for the piano.
• he was also known as the "Poet of the Piano".
• Most of his pieces were exquisite miniatures, which evoke an infinite variety of moods and are always elegant, graceful and melodic.

• Carnival of the Animals
• Samson and Deliah
• Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
• Cello Concerto No. 1
• Oboe Sonata
• Romance, Op. 36

is a term that denotes an era of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century.

Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)

Prelude- an introductory piece of music.

Waltz- a German dance in triple meter.

Impromptu- a short musical piece for solo instrument.

Scherzo- a musical movement of playful character, typically in ABA form

Sonata- a composition for one or more solo instruments consisting of three or four movements.

Romantic music is related to romanticism in literature, visual arts, and philosophy, though the conventional time periods used in musicology are now very different from their counterparts in the other arts, which define "romantic" as running from the 1780s to the 1840s.

Romantic period (1820- 1910)

is described as a cultural movement that stressed emotion, imagination, individualism and freedom of expression.

Characteristics

• Known as a talented musician and composer, wrote operas, symphonies, concertos, songs, sacred and secular choral music, solo piano and chamber music.
• He was considered as elegant, neat, clean, polished, and never excessive composer.

Franz Lizst (1811-1886)

Titles of the musical works by Lizst:

Tchaikovsky's musical works:

• There is Individuality of style
• The aims and subjects are expressive
• Nationalism and exoticism
• program music
• expressive tone color
• colorful Harmony
• expanded range of dynamics,pitch, and tempo
• forms are miniature and monumental

• La Campanella
• Liebestraume
• Hungarian Rhapsodies
• Sonata in B minor
• Symphonic Poems (Hamlet and Les preludes)
• Les Preludes
• Piano Concerto No. 1

• He was known as the virtouso pianist, a composer and the busiest musician during the romantic era.
• Lizst was known for his symphonic poem, or tone poem, a one-movement orchestral composition based to some extent on literary or pictorial ideals.

• Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor
• Romeo and Juliet
• Serenade for Strings
• Variations on a Rococo Theme
• Capriccio Italien
• Hamlet
• Piano Trio
• The Storm

Mendelssohn's musical works:

Romanticism

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

PyotrIlyich Tchalkovsky

(1840-1893)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Elijah
• Wedding March
• Violin Concerto
• Octet in E Flat Major
• St. Paul
• Hark!The Herald Angels Sing
• Concerto for Violin and Strings

is a movement held that not all truth could be deduced from axioms, that there were inescapable realities in the world which could only be reached through emotion, feeling and intuition.

Titles of the musical works by Schumann:

• "romantic music" applies to music which is thought to evoke a soft mood or dreamy atmosphere.
• This usage is rooted in the connotations of the word "romantic" that were established during the period, but not all "Romantic" pieces fit this description, with some musical romanticism producing strong, harsh sounds for agitated emotion. "romantic music" applies to music which is thought to evoke a soft mood or dreamy atmosphere.

• Romantic music struggled to increase emotional expression and power to describe these deeper truths, while preserving or even extending the formal structures from the classical period.

• He was a German composer, pianist, organist, and conductor of the early romantic period.
• He wrote symphonies, concertos, sonatas and vocal works of astounding quality.
• Mendelssohn's music are elegant and balance of is personality.

• He was the most famous Russian Composer influenced by French, Italian, German music as well as Russian folksong.
• Tchaikovsky's works are more in the western tradition than those of his contemporaries.
• The "Swan Lake", "Sleeping Beauty", and "The Nutcracker Suite" are the best scores for ballet and the spirit of ballet occupies much of his music.

• He was a music writer, critic, and composer who combined the music and the words.
• Schumann's works are extremely autobiographical and usually have descriptive tiles, texts, or programs.
• His original piano pieces and songs expressed in lyrical nature.

• Piano Concerto in A Major, Opus 54
• Oventure, Scherzo
• Carnaval, Opus 9
• Piano Quintet
• Violin Concerto
• Abegg Variations, Opus 1
• Toccata
• Finale, Opus 52