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Opening Agenda

Opening Agenda. Things to Get: Handouts from the front Put your homework in the box if you are done. Romantic Self-Portrait DUE MONDAY ! Things to Do: Opener: Review of Romantic Visual Art 1) Romantic Music, Ballet, Theater notes/Ballet video clip 2) Video analysis

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Opening Agenda

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  1. Opening Agenda • Things to Get: • Handouts from the front • Put your homework in the boxif you are done. • Romantic Self-Portrait DUE MONDAY! • Things to Do: • Opener: Review of Romantic Visual Art • 1) Romantic Music, Ballet, Theater notes/Ballet video clip • 2) Video analysis • Exit Slip: Application of content

  2. Notebook Check Order! GET IT READY! Baroque Note TAB Neoclassical Note TAB • Neoclassical Intro Notes • Neoclassical Art – David and Propaganda • Classical Music Notes • Neoclassical Theatre – Satire and Tartuffe • Neoclassical Architecture • On notebook paper! Intro to Baroque and Visual Art Baroque Composers/Music Baroque Architecture Baroque Dance – Ballet and Minuet

  3. Opener: Complete the following chart Use your notes to help answer this question.

  4. Opener • Artist: • Eugene Delacroix • Country of Origin: • France • Important Fact about the artist: • scenes of war and tragedy • Name an important work: • Death of Sardanapalus • Indentify one important fact about the work: • rich/warm colors unite painting

  5. Opener • Artist: • John Constable • Country of Origin: • England • Important Fact about the artist: • landscapes • Name an important work: • The Hay Wain • Indentify one important fact about the work: • Use of color and space emphasize the countryside

  6. Opener • Artist: • Francisco Goya • Country of Origin: • Spain • Important Fact about the artist: • Exposed the truth of subjects/events • Name an important work: • The Third of May 1808 • One important fact about the work (s): • communal cruelty

  7. the Age of Romanticism MUSIC

  8. How do characteristics of Romanticism influence music? Emotion: Expansion of formal structures within a composition, making the pieces more passionate and expressive. Music has urgency, intensity, more contrasts in tempo and mood. Common symphonic form: extended orchestral composition 3-4 movements. folk music (stories) Begin to see virtuoso musicians

  9. Richard Wagner(1813-1883) * Open your books to page 361. * Use pages 361-364 to answer the 7 questions on your worksheet.

  10. Richard Wagner(1813-1883) 1. Myth, Music, Poetry, Drama, and Pictoral design…. Gesamtkunstwerk 2. Opera itself (it’s commercialism) 3. A) The primary importance of the orchestra over the singing B) the Leitmotif as unifying element C) Chromatic, or colored, harmonies 4. Distinct melody or melodic fragment associated with a character, object, or idea 5. Yearning, love-death, transcendental bliss 6. Chromatic scale; Dissolved traditional tonality and gives music emotionalism 7. The Ring of the Nibelung…. 16 hours  Song to Identify on your exam: The Ride of the Valkyries

  11. Richard Wagner • 1813 – 1883 • Born in Leipzig, Germany • Personality: • Flamboyant egoist (thinks he is the shiz) • Associated with anti-Semitism and Nazism • Music Terms he introduced: • Gesamtkunstwerk(Use reading assignment to define the word) • Leitmotifs(Use reading assignment to define the word) • Famous Works: • Ride of the Valkyries • Der Ring des Nibelungen • The Wedding March (Bridal Chorus) from Lohengrin

  12. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeRwBiu4wfQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxiv3CBMS4M Der Ring des Nibelungen (1876) Famous Work: Ride of the Valkyries. Wagner Synopsis: The Ride begins in the prelude to the Act. The curtain rises to reveal a mountain peak where four of the eight Valkyrie sisters of Brünnhilde have gathered in preparation for the transportation of fallen heroes to Valhalla. Romantic Characteristics: Subject taken from folk story High emotions shown through dramatic crescendos with emphasis on brass instruments Music has urgency to it, intensity, and more contrasts in tempo and mood throughout the piece

  13. Music meets Dance PyotrIlyich Tchaikovsky 1840 – 1893 Born in Votkinsk, Russia Composed music for “Classical ballet” Classical ballet is a full length ballet performed by a corps de ballet (a large company of dancers) These works are choreographed and performed almost the exact same way for years/centuries to come. Majors ballets include Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, and The Nutcracker.

  14. Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake:Dance of the Four Swans Song for the Listening Portion of the exam: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giMQ05Q97mU

  15. the Age of Romanticism BALLET

  16. Romanticism in Ballet • Subject Matter: • the Supernatural • Earlier Times • Distant Lands • Folk Stories • Invention of gaslight which creates varying moods (lighting!) • Reflection of the Time: • Rising of the cult of the ballerina • As women gained more rights in society, women were featured and developed a specialized technique

  17. Cult of the BallerinaNew Innovations to Ballet • Pointe Shoes: • Supportive shoes made of wood; allows ballerinas to dance on their toes • a strictly female characteristic of ballet • Shortened Skirts: • used to display the ballerina’s technique (specifically her feet/ankles) • Emphasis on Women: • Ballerinas were lifted by male partners or by wires to emphasize their lightness and delicacy. • This created an element of fantasy. • Answer the following in your notes: • How do these innovations surround the status of women during this time?

  18. Romeo and Juliet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juHmv6g5RrU&feature=related • As you watch this scene from Romeo and Juliet, answer the following questions: • 1. What was the inspiration for this ballet? • 2. Name two innovations that emphasize the focus of the ballerina that you see in this clip. • 3. How is this an example of a Romantic ballet? • 4. Would ballet have become so popular if there had not been the development of Romantic music? Why or why not? (Think about the major characteristic of Romantic music!)

  19. Agenda To Get: -Half sheet of paper for opener -Notes and activity sheet from last class (Romantic Music, Dance, and Theatre To Do: -Turn in Self-Portrait TO ME! -Review Quiz -Finish Romantic: Theater and Exit Slip -Review Baroque/Neoclassical Test Scores -Finish self-portrait: -5 if you have not completed it! Must be turned in today!

  20. Review Quiz – Romanticcomplete on a blank sheet of paper! • Who painted the Hay Wain? • Which painting was about a king destroying all his possessions? • How did Goya’s work reflect his anger at going deaf? Describe it. • Name one of the Russian innovations to ballet. • Song #1 - Identify the song and composer of the music played. • Song #2 - Identify the song and composer of the music played.

  21. the Age of Romanticism THEATER

  22. Romanticism in Theater • Actors and actresses are now more important than playwrights • More rehearsals • Technological influences: • Larger theater due to larger productions • Lit with gas • Steam-engine • People could travel to see plays • New factories= new jobs = money to go to the theater • Urbanization: people needed entertainment in the cities • theaters opened in new places that previously had no form of theater • and actors begin tours around the United States

  23. Romanticism in Theater • Types: Three Types • Romantic Plays • needed no rules (rejected the “rules” of Neoclassical theater) • no subject matter was inappropriate • conflict occurred between the character’s spiritual and creative wishes and their physical ability

  24. Romanticism in Theater • Type Two: • Melodramas • designed to pull the heart-strings of the audience by pitting good characters against bad characters – heroes against villains. • Full of over-the-top, dramatic expression; reintroduction of stock characters.

  25. Romanticism in Theater • Type Three: • Well-Made Plays • Structure builds to a climax through a development of plot events that take place logically in a cause and-effect fashion • the audience knows all of the information to know the characters; events are foreshadowed.

  26. Can you indentify the different types of Romantic plays?

  27. Homework • Objective: • Create a Romantic self-portrait • Requirements: • All subject matter in the painting must be “romantic”. • All of the five I’s must be present • “Brushstrokes” or drawing lines must echo the Romantic technique • Your illustration must take up an entire sheet of white computer paper. • Your illustration must use color. • Point Value: 20 pts • (Equals two percentage points of your grade)

  28. Romantic Music, Ballet, and Theater Brief Review 1. What is “gesamtkunstwerk?” Who developed it? 2. What was one of the most important inventions in 19th century theater? How did it affect the “mood?” 3. What is corps de ballet? 4. Why did ballerinas begin to wear shorter skirts? 5. What is the difference between Romantic plays and Well-made plays?

  29. Baroque/Neoclassical Test Revisions • After receiving your answer sheet go to the front of the room and get the correct question packet; A or B. • Take out a blank sheet of notebook paper. • You may correct the multiple choice questions 1-29 for half the point value missed. Take the question from the test packet and create a statement with the correct information. • E.g. – Messiah is an example of what musical form?, becomes Messiah is an example of the musical form of oratorio.

  30. Short Answer Questions must have contained the following to get full credit! • Conversion of St. Paul • Paul sees god on the road to Damascus, tenebrism, Baroque • Baroque Dance • Louis created a dance where he was at the center and he controlled all the dancers around him=Sun King • Classical Music • Describe using elements of music, (timbre – string quartet uses stringed instruments • Beethoven was influenced by an abusive father and going deaf in his late 20’s. • Neoclassic Theatre • Religious hypocrite. Satire because it focused on the corrupt nature of the catholic church at that time. • Baroque vs. Neoclassic Architecture • Be able to identify Palace of Versailles and Monticello and then compare and contrast and explain symbolism. • Versailles showed absolute power and extreme wealth • Monticello represented a balanced government through symmetry

  31. Application: (On the back of your learning guide) • With a partner, select one of the types of theater during the Romantic Period and write a brief plot synopsis that demonstrates your knowledge of these types. Well Made Plays Melodramas Romantic Plays 8 Minutes

  32. TARIK “HUMMER TOE” EDWARDS

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