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The Evolution of Song
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The Evolution of Song
Part 5: The Romantic
Choose Your Own Adventure!
Context
Please find two other people (preferably from another section of the choir).
Search one of the following. As relevant, tell us about composer(s), composition, and significance:
Listenings
Isn't it Romantic?
Let's collectively choose 3...
- INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:
- Urbanization
- Rise of middle class
- Inventions like lightbulbs, photography, telegraphs, and phonographs
- ART = CULTURE:
- Art: Friedrich, Seurat, Monet
- Literature/Poetry: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Philosophy: Marx, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer
Symphonie Fantastique La donna è mobile
Mendelssohn's Elijah Dvorak the Nationalist Schubertiad
Nocturne in Bb Minor The Ring Cycle
Did Brahms admire Bach or Beethoven more?
Strauss' Death and Transfiguration
BIG IDEAS:
- Nationalism
- Expansion
- Escapism
- Expression
- Beautiful/Grotesque
- Man vs. Nature
Berlioz: Verdi:
Mendelssohn: Dvorak:
Chopin: Wagner:
Brahms: Strauss:
Schubert:
https://www.classicfm.com/composers/wagner/guides/wagner-ring-cycle-where-start/
This is Ms. Taves' favourite.
FYI.
Just for funsies...
Musically...
Characterizing Romantic Music
Guess who wrote
"The Wedding March"?
- Lieder (salons)
- Chromaticism
- New professions:
- Conductors
- Musicologists
- Virtuosos/Prima Donnas
- Journalists - making music matter
- Concert halls and opera houses
- Being seen = status
- The piano revolution!
- Program music
Other noteworthy composers:
Tchaikovsky, Elgar, Liszt,
The Schumanns, Mahler, Fanny Mendelssohn, Puccini, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Offenbach
Guess who wrote the "Go to sleep, go to sleep" lullaby?
And guess who wrote
The Nutcracker?
Review
Classical Period:
- Balance, proportion and form
- Elegance
- Art for Art's Sake
- Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven