music Flashcards Set

MUSIC



Romantic Period Movement

  • Themes of individualism and self expression

  • Intense emotions

Genres :

  1. Program symphony

  2. Symphonic poem

  3. Concert overture

Romantic form - focused on moving the audiences

Program music

  • Based on specific description

  • Awaken the musical ideas

  • No particular genre

  • Stimulates audiences’ emotions

Tone poem 

  • Example of program music

  • Usually reserved for purely instrumental works

Piano music 

  • Gained much more popularity during the romantic

Frederic chopin 

  • Great pianist

Minute waltz - shows speed changes

Franz liszt

  •  considered to be the best

  • Known for his facial expressions

  • Famous composition - hungarian rhapsody

Artists 

  1. Frederic chopin 

  • Poland’s greatest composite

  • His sister ludwika served as his first piano teacher

  • Poet of the piano

  • Pieces were classified as romantic music

  • Performed in london’s guildhall

  • Last public appearance was in britain died at the age of 39 because of tuberculosis

  1. Pyotr ilich tchaikovsky

  • Greatest russian composer of all time

  • Evoked a profound emotional; response

  • Peculiar gift in melody and orchestration

  • Works are featured in the sleeping beauty and the nutcracker

  1. Franz liszt

  • Pianist

  • Virtoustic

  • Had the opportunity to be mentored by the italian composer antonio salierin vienna

  • First opera - don sache

  • 1826, death of his father and exhibited loss of interest in music

  1. Camille saint-saens

  • French composer known for his symphonic poems and as a pioneer in the establishment of french music

  • Started playing the piano at the age of 11

  • Considered as a child prodig7

  • Organist at the church of madeline

  • One of the founders of national society of music

  • Le rouet d’omphale - his first symphonic poem

  • Composed samson et delilah - first rejected by the french community