Romantic Era of Music

Romantic Era of Music

By Giovanni Rodriguez

​Romantic Era Music

• ​1825-1900

• music with an imaginative emotional appeal.

• Romantic era music emphasizes personal feelings and emotions. z

• Composers wrote and express their innermost thoughts and feelings through their music.

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• Romantic era composers were much more free with their music

• they could express themselves.

• Romantic era composers composed in nationalistic styles ,patriotism and love of country.​

​Romantic Music

• music of the Classical era:

• as elegant, formal, and restrained.

• Classical composers wrote very structured music.

• The music of the Classical era sounded essentially the same throughout Europe​

​Classical Music

Romantic Era vs Classical Era

Discuss and compare the differences between the Classical Era and Romantic Music.

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Why were composers writing in a nationalistic way during the Romantic Era?

• to show the patriotism and love country

• because the had to

• to be a rock star

• to show their love of flowers

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What was the time period of the Romantic Era

• 1600-1750

• 1750-1825

• 450-1450

• 1825-1900

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Why did the Romantic Era of music get this description of this musical period?

• because they saw a romantic movie

• because the music emphasized personal feelings and emotions

• because it wasn't romantic music

• because they thought it woud be funny

​Composers in the Romantic Era

• Romantic era composers began to compose in nationalistic styles as a way to show their patriotism and love of country.

• more free musically, they were also more free as individuals.

• were celebrities, like today’s rock stars.

• A composer might earn income from the sale of printed copies of his music, or he might tour as a conductor throughout Europe and North America.

• Or he might produce performances of his music or operas, like today’s concert promoters.

• Others were supported by wealthy patrons and a few were supported by their governments.​

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Discuss with your neighbor what are ways that people today show their love for their country today?

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When composing music, composers were able to do what with their music?

• able to write freely and expressed themselves in their music

• they wrote all day

• they wrote about dogs

• they didn't do anything

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In the Romantic era of music, musicians were considered to be?

• government officials

• coaches

• celebrities and rock stars

• dancers

​Music in the Romantic Era

• Music represented some-thing (such as an element of nature, like a sunrise), or expressed something (such as love of country or patriotism), or described something (such as a poem).

• The orchestra truly became the composer’s “instrument” during this era.

• Orchestras grew in size, and the skill of orchestration was an important part of the composer’s craft. Compos-ers began to use the instruments of the orchestra in much the same way that an artist uses colors—for effect, contrast, and beauty.

If you were in the Romantic Era of Music, What would you compose about? Discuss with your neighbor

• an element of nature, (like a sunrise)

• Emotions (what emotion)

• describing something (such as a poem).

• love for country

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​Musicians in the Romantic Era

• Great conservatories (schools) grew, this resulted in many more skilled performers than in previous eras.

• As orchestras employed more skilled performers, composers were able to write music that was more difficult.

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In the Romantic era of music the size of the orchestras...

• shrunk in size

• they grew in size

• there was no more orchestras

• they stated at home.

​New Form of Music

• ​The symphonic poem was a fairly long (as long as an hour) work for orchestra in one movement.

• Often a symphonic poem attempted to tell a story or paint a musical picture.

• Descriptive music such as this is called program music.

• Composers also wrote short piano pieces, and songs for solo voice with piano accompaniment using expressive poems as the song lyrics.

• German composers, in particular, excelled at composing songs, would use folk tales

If you were in the Romantic Era of Music, what would you name a symphonic poem and what story would it tell?

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What is a symphonic poem?

• a short vocal work

• a long work for orchestra that told or painted a story, musical picture

• a poem about a symphony

• a long solo instrumental work

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What as the music term used to describe descriptive music?

• TV music

• Lounge Music

• Program Music

• Spectrum Music

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What type of music would German composers incorporate in his compositions?

• Songs of China

• Songs of Australia

• German Folk Tales

• Russian folk tales

​Musical Dramas

• most grandiose new form of the Romantic era was the music drama, a kind of grandiose opera using an enormous cast and a large orchestra.

• The operas of Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi were the best examples of music drama.

• Both Wagner and Verdi considered their operas to be a kind of super-art, combining music, drama, theater, and the visual arts of scenery and costuming.

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Who were the two big opera composers of the Romantic Era?

• Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi

• Mozart and Beethoven

• Schumann and Berlioz

• Kenan and Nel

By 1900, the great, emotional music of the Romantic era gave way to the composers of the twentieth century, who looked at music, and the art of composing, much differently than their predecessors in the nineteenth century.