...M5RW 1. Identify the distinctive stylistic features of Romantic music. The romantic era (1800-1850) in music is made by large pieces of work that start to make bigger orchestras with bigger sounds. This music places a strong point on “stirring emotions” within the listener, and doesn’t have to do with the emotion of “love”. Romantic composer made this by writing more complicated music. They use key changes, dissonance, and chromatics a lot. This was done by improving instruments that was played in music theory and teaching how to write music. Beethoven played a major part in bringing music into this new style, and his 3rd symphony is a prime example. Few Romantic composers were Schumann, Chopin, Rossini, and Tchaikovsky. Few characteristics of Romantic music are intense expression of emotions, more freedom in the structure (form) of the music, more complex use of tone and rhythm, larger orchestras/developments in wind instruments, greater technical virtuosity, sense of “nationalism” in musical styles, and links music with other art forms. 2. Discuss the romantic orchestra, program music, nationalism, and exoticism. Romantic orchestra has a wider range of instruments and pitches. It has many more players than a classical orchestra. Romantic orchestra was used in different ways. For example, composers start to use more adventurous techniques like flutter-tonguing on the woodwind instruments and col legno on string instruments. Romantic orchestras have larger...
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...9. Autumn 1835-June 1836 This work was written to fulfill Robert’s dream of composing something for Moscheles in homage and consequently dedicated to him. In the autumn of 1835, Robert made Moscheles personal acquaintance who looked at this work (which at the time was originally intended as a concerto without orchestra) and frankly commented that it “did not fulfill the requirements of a concerto thought it possessed the characteristic attributes of a grand sonata in the manner of Beethoven and Weber.” It follows that Robert reformed and renamed this work as a sonata to better suit its character. Chissell also points out that ‘In subject-matter, however, the Sonata is wholly Clara’s. During its composition Schumann had faced up to the truth of his love for her, and had broken off his engagement with Ernestine, which would account for the music’s tone of high romantic tumult. But more specifically the slow movement is a set of variations on an ‘Andantino de Clara Weick’ bringing her ‘motto’ theme, the falling figure of 5 notes, out into the open…This theme generates the greater part of the sonata. Little else in Robert’s piano music is quite a monothematic as this work.’ Clara’s motto theme of 5 falling notes, C-B-A-G-F Sonata in F minor, Op. 14 10. 1836 Learning from Liszt that plans were afoot to erect a monument of one of his idols, the late Beethoven, Robert composed this work as a means of raising money towards this end. Accordingly, he was inspired...
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...get him. When the boy doesn’t do what the Erlking says, it harms him leading to the young boys death. What brings out the fear the most in this piece are the lyrics. "My father, my father, he's grabbing me now! The Elfking has done me harm!”. As this is being sung, the voice level rises quite drastically and gives off a frantic and fearful tone. Another element of the piece that evokes not only the emotion of fear but also suspense is the instrumental work. A piano is used and stays at a constant pace throughout the whole song, which in itself is pretty fast paced, however when it gets to the parts when the boy begins talking, the tone is raised and higher notes are played. The second piece I picked was “In The Lovely Month of May” by Schumann. Though quite short, being just slightly over one minute long, this piece brings out the emotion of love through its instrumental and musical styling as well as the lyrics. The piano melody is so haunting yet so beautiful and just screams love song when paired with the lyrics. “…As all the flower-buds burst, then in my heart love arose.” This particular lyric just shows how something as simple as nature can bring out love in a person and the beauty of both. The final piece of music is Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair by Foster, which brings out the emotions of love and admiration. This song is accompanied by a piano and is said to be about Foster’s wife while they were separated, as an attempt to get her back. The music played by the...
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...One can arguably say that the worlds of the German Romantic composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) can seamlessly collide in their finest works. Schumann and Hoffmann were linked in many aspects of life including their shared passion for both literature and music, and in their eccentric and slight bipolar personalities - The similarities in their Romantic views as well as the way they expressed themselves through art form was uncanny. This is found to be most evident in Schumann’s piano song cycle, Kreisleriana, and in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novel, Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr for numerous reasons. Perhaps the biggest and most notable similarity between the two major works is the dualism and constant abrupt change in the literature and music. Hoffmann, in his novel, constantly switches back and forth from the section narrated by the Tomcat, Murr (“Murr continues” – m.c.) and the section that contains the flashbacks of Kapellmeister Johannes Kreisler’s life (“scrap paper” - s.p.). Hoffmann enjoyed jumping back and forth from the two contrasting sections without any preparation and usually always abruptly switched in mid-sentence of the narrations. However, the dualism and sudden contrast isn’t only found in the structure of Hoffmann’s writing but also through the characteristics of the main character, Johannes Kreisler. Each time the story flashes back to speak about Kreisler, the readers are led to discover more and...
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