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The Enjoyment of Music 10th Shorter Edition
The Enjoyment of Music 10th, Shorter Edition
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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