Week 10 - Romantic Music

Romantic Music

This is a stylistic movement in the Western Classical Music associated with the 19th century.

Romanticism

The intellectual, artistic and literary movement that became prominent in Western culture from approximately 1798 until 1837. It values emotions and imagination over logic.

True

One of the characteristics of romantic music is that there is a freedom of form and design. Therefore, it was more personal and emotional. True or false?

Lyrical

Another characteristic of romantic music is that they have song-like melodies or?

Chromatic Harmonies and discords

Romantic music has song like melodies as well as many _____ and ____.

False

Dramatic contrasts of dynamics and pitch are not a characteristic of romantic music. True or false?

True

Romantic music has big orchestras, due to brass and the invention of valve. True or false?

False

Romantic music did not have a wide variety of pieces, this is mainly due to the fact that most instruments were mainly brass. True or false?

Programme Music

This is a type of music that tells a story or conveys a narrative.

Absolute Music

This type of music focuses on musical structures rather than illustrating an external narrative or idea.

Shape

__ was brought wo work through the use of recurring themes in romantic music.

Nationalism

This is a characteristic of romantic music that is a reaction against German influence.

Romantic Composers

Unlike classical composers, they aimed for a powerful expression of emotion, often revealing their innermost thoughts and feelings.

Von Weber

One of his famous works were Der Freischütz, Euryanthe, Oberon, and Invitation to The Dance.

Von Weber

He is known as the father of Romantic Opera. He is a was a conductor, pianist,

guitarist, critic, and one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school.

Von Weber

A romantic composer that is very weak, has a damaged hip, so he was considered a limp. He also died of tuberculosis in the last three years of his life.

Von Weber

This composer is from a rich family, and his father was an owner of an opera house.

Von Weber

He got arrested when he was 20. He got depressed afterwards and became a drunkard

Frederic Francois Chopin

What is Chopin’s full name?

Frederic Chopin

One of his famous works is the Nocturnes, Op. 9 & Study Op. 10, No. 12 in C minor, “The Revolutionary Study”

Frederic Chopin

He is known as the lead symbol of the romantic era.

Frederic Chopin

He is known as a virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period, who wrote primarily for solo piano.

Frederic Chopin

He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading musician of his era, one whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation”.

Frederic Chopin

This composer came from a poor family and paid for his expensive lifestyle by giving piano lessons to rich people in Paris. He never liked the idea of asking them for money, so he would look away while they left the fee on his mantelpiece.

Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber

What was the full name of Von Weber?

Robert Alexander Schumann

What was Schumann’s full name?

Robert Schumann

One of his famous work is papillons, piano concerto in a minor, and the symphony no. 2 in c major, op. 61.

Robert Schumann

He is a German composer, pianist, and an influential music critic.

Robert Schumann

He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era. He left the study of law, intending to pursue a career as a virtuoso pianist.

Robert Schumann

He was considered as the van gogh of romantic music. he suffered from mental illness such as dissociative identity disorder and as multiple personalities. Psychologist believed that each of his personalities created a distinct style of music.

Liszt Ferenc

What is the real name of Franz Liszt?

Franz Liszt

One of his famous works is the hugnarian rhapsodies no.12 and annees de pelerinage.

Franz Liszt

He is a Hungarian composer, pianist, and teacher of the Romantic period. He gained renown during the early 18th century for his skill as a pianist. 

Franz Liszt

He is famous for being the world’s first rockstar

Lisztmania

More than a hundred eyars before Beatlemania, there was __?

Recital

What was the word Liszt invented?

Wilhelm Richard Wagner

What was Wagner’s full name?

Richard Wagner

One of his famous works are the fairies and the ban on love.

Richard Wagner

He is known as the old sorcerer, a german composer, a theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is known for his operas.

Richard Wagner

Unlike most opera composers, he is known for writing both libretto and the music for his stage works.

Richard Wagner

He is known for being an expensive composer, he was married twice.

Minna Planner

She was Wagner’s first wide, a singer and actress. They divorced due to a tumultuous relationship.

Cosima Liszt

She was Wagner’s second wife, the daughter of Franz Liszt. They remained married till deat.

15

On what age did Wagner wrote his first drama?

Jacob Offenbach

One of his famous works are the tales of hoffmann and the orpheus in the underworld.

Jacob Offenbach

He is known as the father of the operetta. He is a german-french composr, cellist and impresario.

Jacob Offenbach

He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s and 18070s, and his uncompleted opera the tales of hoffmann.

Johannes Brahms

He is a german composer, pianist and conductor of the mid-romantic period. He spent much of his professional life in Vienna. He helps his family financially by performing in inns, brothels, taverns and along the city docks.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

He died nine days after the premiere of his sixth symphony, the Pathetique. He died from cholera.

Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov

His famous works are capriccio espagnol and the russian easter.

Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov

He is a member of the group of composers known as the five. He was a master of orchestration.

Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov

He did not think he could be a musician. He has an inherent desire, but did not think he could pull it as a career. Their family had a army background, so he became a sea explorer and navigator. He joined the Naval Cadets.

Richard Strauss

His famous works are opera salome, der rosenkavalier, morgen, and an alphine symphony op. 64.

Richard Georg Strauss

What was Strauss full name?

Richard Strauss

He is described as the successor of Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt.

Richard Strauss

He is mainly influenced by Ritter, who was a violinist and a husband of his niece. His works are quite conservative but changed into writing tone poems.