Romantic Period: Music Flashcards
He bridge the transtion between the classical and the romantic period
Ludwig van beethoven
Romantic music featured?
Freedom, creativity, emotion and imagination and experimentation.
Is an instrumental music that narrates a story through music. Describes an event, situation, and feeling.
Program music
used for a concert performance
Concert overture
It portrays a story or had a literary or artistic background
Symphonic poem
*Russian composer of the romantic period, a famous one.
*his piano lessons began at the age of five and received and exhibited great potential in this music
*chose civil service as his course, studied at St. Petersburg Conservatory
*his famous works include The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty
Pyotr Llyich Tchaikovsky
Compositions or pieces that are specifically written to be played on the piano
Piano music
A musical composition that has a soft, sad, romantic, or dreamy character: mostly for a piano
Nocturne
Short musical composition to improve the technique of the player
Etude
A multi-movement orchestral music that follows the same structure of the symphony
Program symphony
Polish dance in triple signature, a piece of music for, or in the rhythm of, such a dance
Polonaise
Polish folkdance in triple time signature
Mazurka
Introductory performance, event or action.
Prelude
*Polish composer
*studied at the Warsaw conservatory of music, moved to Vienna, spent most of his life in Paris
*He was buried in Paris but his heart was interned at a church in Warsaw
*known for his brilliant solo piano works and concertos, “poet of piano”
*began to play piano at the age of 4 and composed polonaise at the age of 7
Frederic Chopin
*Hungarian piano virtuoso and composer
*Born on Oct. 22, 1811 at Raiding, Hungary
* he developed a musical form known as symphonic poem
*practiced 10 hours a day, had a big heart for the needy
Franz Liszt
