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Part 7 The Nineteenth Century

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Unit XV The Romantic Movement

“Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions.”

—Napoleon Bonaparte

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40. The Spirit of Romanticism • French Revolution, bourgeois society

“Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”

• Romantic poets and artists turned to the passionate and fanciful

• Bohemian artists• Novelists

– Hugo– Emily Brontë– Tolstoy– Dumas– Coleridge– Hawthorne

– Poe

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40. Romanticism in Music• Industrial Revolution

Valves added to brass instrumentsCast-iron frame and thicker strings in

piano

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40. Romanticism in Music

• Music conservatories in Europe and the Americas• Orchestral size• Music moved from palace and church to concert hall• New levels of expression

Art of orchestration

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40. Romanticism in Music

• Nationalistic folklore and exotic subjectsFolk songs and dances

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2

Smetana: The Moldau

Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite, No. 1, “Ase’s Death”

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Romantic Style Traits

• Memorable melodies• Expressive harmony• Expanded forms• Making instruments “sing”• Chromaticism and dissonance

• Longer symphonies

“We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.” —Robert Schumann

Verdi: “La donna è mobile”

Dvořák: Symphony No. 9, II

Wagner: Prelude to Tristan and Isolde

Wagner. Die Walküre, Act I

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• Rise of the virtuoso soloist and amateur music making– Public concert hall and salons– Musicians and audience as

equals– Soloists and conductors idolized

• Mendelssohn, Liszt, Paganini

• Amateur music making

The Musician in Society

Felix Mendelssohn

Franz Liszt

Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 1

Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2

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Women in Music

• Performers, teachers, composers

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

Clara Schumann

Amy Cheney Beach

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Women in Music • Patrons

– George Sand– Carolyne Sayn-Wittgenstein– Nadezhda von Meck

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