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Exploring Romantic Music: Characteristics, Composers, and Listening Journals

Discover the richness of the Romantic Period (1820-1900), with its emphasis on emotion, nationalism, and expressive music, featuring prominent composers like Schubert, Clara and Robert Schumann, and Chopin. Dive into listening journals of their iconic works and learn about the characteristics that define this era of music.

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Exploring Romantic Music: Characteristics, Composers, and Listening Journals

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  1. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • Similarities to Classical but… • Uses greater range of…. • Tone color • Dynamics • Pitch • The harmonies are broader • The use of unstable chords

  2. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • Characteristics • Style • emphasis on heart over mind & self-expression , individuality • Aims & Strengths • universe of feelings • nature vs. supernatural

  3. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • Characteristics • Nationalism & Exoticism • expressing deliberately music credited to identity of a specific country • setting music with styles associated with foreign nationalities

  4. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • Characteristics • Program Music • Instrumental music associated with story or poem, idea, scene • Expressive tone color • using timbre alone to create mood & atmosphere • Romantic orchestra larger with more color options

  5. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • Characteristics • Colorful Harmony • chromatic harmony • 12tones scale • unstable • unsettled

  6. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • Characteristics • Expanded range of dynamics, pitch & tempo • use of pppp and ffff • plus longer cresendo’s & decresendo’s • extreme high notes and low notes • rubato feel = free feeling tempo of slightly slower or faster

  7. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • THE ART SONG • solo voice & piano / setting to poems to music • Strophic form = new lyric but same music per stanza • Through composed form = new music and new lyric per stanza • Song Cycle = group of art songs that tell a larger story or theme

  8. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • Schubert • born Vienna • earliest romantic great • love of poetry lead to art song • (143 total written) • died at 31

  9. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • Listening Journal : Schubert : The Erlking • Through Composed • father riding home sick child • sick boy has visions of the Erlking (king of Elves symbol of death) • galloping accompaniment • mounting tension of through composed • climax @ end when father arrives home but boy has died

  10. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • The Schumann’s • Robert & Clara (married couple) • German composers who meet in Leipzig • Her father forbid them from marrying • Robert was more well known as a composer • She was performing pianist • Robert wrote mainly piano pieces • Wrote some Art songs

  11. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • The Schumann’s • Listening Journal: Carnaval (Robert) • Selected songs from Carnaval song cycle • Cycle of 21 brief song • Each has descriptive title evoking a characters, moods, ect.. at a masked ball • Listening Journal: Liebst du um Schonheit (Clara) • From a song cycle written in 1841 • 9 songs of Robert + 3 songs of Clara • Would often write love notes in music to each other • Clara’s song glorifies romantic love

  12. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • Chopin • only great composer who wrote almost exclusively for the Piano • born Warsaw Poland (1810-1849) • @ 21 moved to Paris • feel into life with the aristocratic society

  13. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • Chopin • played more in upper class salons rather than concert halls • was reserved shy man • wrote nocturnes, waltzes, preludes, etudes • died of tuberculosis @ 39.

  14. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1820-1900) • Chopin • Listening Journal : • Chopin :Nocturne in Eb Major • Listening Journal : • Chopin : Etude in C Minor

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