Romantic period and music Flashcards
What is the romantic period
Was a period in literature and art in Western civilation
In literature from 1750-1870
In music from 1830 through the 19th century
Common sounds of melancholy – emotion is a driver.
Music examples:
Prelude in E Minor – innovation in writing, with the piano chords. Emotions, melancholy, longing.
The Moldau- Nature, immersive, moving
Im Wunde Schone Monat Mai – Bittersweet, contradictions, nostalgia.
Er Ist Gekommen – Love, anticipation, excitement, fulfilment
Etude No.12 - Passion, drive, revolution, heroic ideas
Sabbath Night Witches – Supernatural, terror, awe
Piano Concerto No.1 - Heroic, innovative, the individual against the world.
Musical ideas that create the Romantic world
Contrast – Dynamics, textures, soundworlds
Virtuosity- Extreme difficulty, extreme ranges, new techniques
Novel ideas – Borrowing from past, trying new sounds, new emphasis on tone colours.
Innovation in form- Fragments and large forms. Collections of very short pieces and songs. Inventions of new large forms such as symphonic poems, rule breaking.
Large orchestras – with additional new instruments, such as saxophone, ophicleide etc.
Adding text- such as poems, quotations, etc.
Progressive Rock and Romanticism
Progressive Rock and Romanticism- Pushing boundaries of form: extended forms and instrumental sections.
New instruments
Other art forms, eg theatre, texts.
Changing time signatures/odd time signatures
Extended harmonic language compared to pop music
Contrasting sections – often instrumental sections
