Music In the Humanities

Romantic period stylistic features

Romantic period stylistic features

Influence of Beethoven, era of personality, era of specialization, era of virtuoso

Franz Peter Schubert life

Did not perform or teach as a pro career, never hard a large portion of his music, starving artist, music is more sensitive

Franz Schubert category

German Traditional

Franz Schubert pieces

Unfinished symphony, Der Eirlkonig

Lied

Art song, Schubert wrote many

Examples of Lied

Der Eirlkonig

Felix Mendelssohn Life

Greatest musical prodigy next to Mozart, performer and composer, inspired more by Mozart than Beethoven

Felix Mendelssohn Category

German traditonal

Felix Mendelssohn Pieces

Overture from a midsummers nights dream, wedding march from a midsummers nights dream, violin concerto first movement

Fanny Hansel

Sister of Mendel, female composer

Robert Schuman life

virtuoso pianist and composer, was torn between composing and performing, made contraption and injured his hand, fell in love with teacher’s young daughter

Clara Schuman

Female virtuoso pianist and composer

Robert Schuman pieces

Symphony no 4

Robert Schuman Style

powerful and heavy, dramatic, melodic fragment throughout whole piece connecting

Hecter Berliez life

Fell in love with woman who played Ophelia and couldn’t win her over

Hecter Berliez pieces

Symphonic Fantistique- programmatic song

thematic transformation

changes in character, translated in changes to Idee fixe

Idee fixe

a melody for certain character

Chopin life

Composed exclusively for piano

Salon music

music designed to be played in more intimate settings

Character pieces

Single movement works which create single mood

Chopin pieces

Etude No 1, minute waltz, nocturne in e flat major

Rubato

To stretch the rhythmic pulse to give it an emotional improvisatory feel

Chopin category

Virtuoso composer

Franz Liszt life

Status elevated to hero/cult worship, raised standards of piano playing to its current level

Franz Liszt category

virtuoso piano

Liszt pieces

Hungarian Rhapsody for orchestra, Wedding march from midsummer night dream

Paganini life

Raised standards of violin playing, created frenzy everywhere he played

Paganini category

Virtuoso violin

Paganini pieces

Violin Caprice no 24

Joanne’s Brahms Life

Most influence by Beethoven, Extremely self critical

Brahms similiarites to Beethoven

Heavy, dark, powerful and dramatic

Brahms category

German traditional

Brahms pieces

Symphony no 1, cello sonata

Hemola

Juxtaposition of Duplets against triplets, creates rhythmic tension

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky style

Blend of traditional and nationalist elements, has elements of absolute and programmatic

Tchaikovsky pieces

Piano concerto no 1, Rome and Juliet overture, nutcracker ballet

Tchaikovsky category

Russian Nationalism

Tchaikovsky life

Unique relation with women, benefactor was a woman who financially supported him

Giaochino Rossini category

Early Italian opera

Rossini life

International celebrity by 20, retired early

Rossini pieces

William tell overture and barber of Seville

Verissmo

Opera plots no long connected to fantasy, stories shift to real people with real problems

Giuseppe Verdi’s Category

Late italin

Verdi pieces

La Forza Del Destino

Giacometti Puccini Category

Late italian

Puccini pieces

Madame Butterflu

BIzet category

French opera

Bizet pieces

Carmen Habanera

Wagner category

German Opera

Wagner lifestyle

Recognized as a genius, controversial as a person, inspired fusion of arts

Wagner pieces

Bridal Chorus, ride of valkyries, Ring cycle

Mussorgsky category

Russian nationalsim

Mussorgsky life

Belonged to might five Russian composers, felt Tchaikovsky was to closely allied with German style

Mussorgsky style

Rough and dramatic, programmatic music

Nicolai Rimsky

Russian nationlist

Rimsky pieces

Flight of bumblebee, cheherazde

Bed rich Smetna category

Nationalism Czech republic

Smetna mentality

Thoughts every composers duty was to compose music that glorifies their homeland

Smetna pieces

The Moldau

Dovrak

Influenced by Brahms

Edward Grieg category

Norway nationalist

extreme hromatism

Chromatic notes outside normal scale, very disonant

Straus Category

Transitional composer Extreme chromaticism

Straus pieces

Also sproch Zarathustra, Donquixote

Claude Debussy category

Impressionalism

Claude Debussy pieces

Prelude to afternoon of a fawn, la Met, piano etude

Ravel category

Impressionalsm

Ravel pieces

Bolero

Stravinsky category

Primitivism

Stravinsky pieces

Rite of Spring

Stravinsky style

Very dissonant music

Schoenberg category

Expresinalism

Schoenberg pieces

Pierre Lunaire