Module 10 Flashcards
Romantic Era
- Intensely emotional music
- Contrasting dynamic levels
Flexible forms
-Highly emotional music
-Symphonie Fantastique (Hector Berlioz)
~Fourth movement Berlioz moves from an ominous death march to an upbeat to in the portrays the jubilant shouts of an enthusiastic crowd to a poignantly sad melody of a lost loved one
Focused on melodies
- Many of there melodies are so catchy that they are still popular today, such as the passionate and tear jerking love theme from Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky
- The sneaky and suspenseful In The Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg and Rossini,
- exuberantly jaunty William Tell overture to name a few
Romantic Composers
- Tchaikovsky
- Grieg
- Rossini
Dynamics
- Volume of the music
- Requiem Mass (Music for a funeral service) ~played in ppp to ffff
- Symphony of a Thousand
sforzando
- sfz
- Tells a performer to play with great force
fortwpiano
- fp
- Tells the performer to play loud then get immediately soft
Subito
-Suddenly
Subito piano
-Performer should get suddenly soft
Celesta
-A piano-like instrument with metal chimes instead of strings
Tuba
-A deep and powerful brass instrument
Piccolo
-A smaller and higher version of the flute
Musical nationalism
-Art music that was created with the intention to promote nationalism or help inspire patriotic sentiments
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
-The union: Concert paraphrase on national Airs
- A fierce supporter of the north wrote this virtuosic work during the American Civil War
-Combines three national tunes
~The Star-Spangled Banner
~Yankee Doodle
~Hail Columbia
Louis Moreau Gottschalk
-The union: Concert paraphrase on national Airs
- A fierce supporter of the north wrote this virtuosic work during the American Civil War
-Combines three national tunes
~The Star-Spangled Banner
~Yankee Doodle
~Hail, Columbia
