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The document provides information about Romantic era music. It discusses how Romanticism valued freedom of expression and experimentation. Instrumental music from this period featured more passionate and emotionally expressive melodies. Composers expanded the orchestra with new instruments and wrote program music intended to depict scenes and stories. Famous Romantic composers like Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and Saint-Saens made significant contributions through their piano works, orchestral pieces, and operas.

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Romantic (Music)

The document provides information about Romantic era music. It discusses how Romanticism valued freedom of expression and experimentation. Instrumental music from this period featured more passionate and emotionally expressive melodies. Composers expanded the orchestra with new instruments and wrote program music intended to depict scenes and stories. Famous Romantic composers like Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Liszt, and Saint-Saens made significant contributions through their piano works, orchestral pieces, and operas.

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01

Romantic
Era Music
Fast Sharing
• Think of a song that can express
your feeling right now, what is it?
• Do you like expressing your feelings
using music?
Romantic Instrumental
Music
• Primarily, the Romantic Movement was an intellectual, artistic,
and literary movement that started in the second half of the 18th
century in Europe.
• People at that time were rebelling against social and political
standards of the Classical Period. They believed in expressing
their imaginations and passion and in expressing it in their
artwork like literatures, arts, education, and music.
• People in this period moved away from the standards of
balance and restraint prominent during the Classical Period;
allowing artistic freedom and experimentation.
Characteristic Features of Instrumental
Romantic Music
• These characteristics include themes that focused on national identity, surrender
to nature, the mystic and supernatural, a longing for the infinite, the strange and
surprising, spiritual experiences, and subjectivism.
• Romanticism cherishes freedom, movement, passion, and endless pursuit of the
unattainable Romantic music is “understood” to be more passionate and
expressive.
• Romantic music attempted to increase emotional expression and power to
describe deeper truths of human feelings.
• Orchestra instruments was expanded greatly to include piccolo, English horn,
contrabassoon, bass clarinets, trombone, tuba, harp, and a steadily growing list of
percussion.
• Mostly contained warm, personal melodies.
Is the musical composition based on
Program Music
•
a specific description
• Intended to awaken the musical ideas
or images in the minds of the
audience or listeners through
musically-depicting scenes, themes,
events, or literary text
• Composers tend to create music that
stimulates the audiences’ emotions
and keeps them relating with the film
or song
• An example is the tone poem usually
reserved for purely instrumental
works, not for songs or and operas
Piano Music
• gained much more
popularity during the
romantic period through
great pianists who
composed a number of
notable compositions
Written Work 1.1 (Word Cloud)
In a paper and pen, create a word cloud that describes the music
during the Romantic era. Examples are shown below.
02
Composers of
Romantic
Instrumental Music
Written Work 1.2 in Music
Summarize and create a concept map about Romantic composers and their
significant contributions, famous compositions and distinct musical styles.
You can use any editing app or a paper and pen and submit it via Schoology.
Examples of concept maps are shown below.
Frederic Chopin
• considered as Poland’s greatest composer
• he focused his efforts in composing music for piano
and had a strong influence on composers who
followed him
• performed several concerts across Europe and Asia
and became a popular composer and pianist
however, he suffered from poor health which made
him appear less in public than expected
• He never got tired in discovering colorful,
expressive, and new passage works and technical
figures. He made great contributions towards the
development of music and left a significant impact
upon the lives of many piano players of the modern
era.
Pyotr (Peter) Ilich Tchaikovsky
• A romantic Russian musician who produced
various kinds of compositions that include
operas, ballets, concertos, chamber music,
and symphonies.
• His music is characterized by beautiful
melodies and creative orchestration.
• He displayed exceptional musical ability
from an early age, improvising at the piano
and composing his first song in 1844, aged
four.
Franz Liszt
• Hungarian pianist who at age 6 was a
renowned child prodigy.
• As a boy, he played for musicians and kings
mainly because of his extraordinary ability to
improvise an original composition.
• His popularity increased because he donated
concert proceeds to charity and
humanitarian causes.
• He became known for his symphonic poem,
which is actually a type of musical piece that
illustrates a poem, a story, or a non-musical
source.
Charles-Camille Saint-Saens
• An organist, conductor, pianist, and
composer of the Romantic period
• He wrote music belonging to various
genres like symphony, concerto, opera,
solo piano, chamber music, and secular
piano music
• He helped revive a number of earlier
dance forms like the buoree and gavotte.
(old French dance)
Thanks!

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