MUSIC OF THEROMANTIC PERIOD
1820-1910
Music of the Romantic Period
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Describes musical elements
ofgiven Romantic period
pieces
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Explains the performance
practice (setting, composition,
role of
composers/performers, and
audience) during Romantic
Period.
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Objectives
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MUSIC OF THEROMANTIC PERIOD
PROGRAM MUSIC and COMPOSERS
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Niccolo Paganini (1782to 1840)
PROGRAM MUSIC
• One of the distinct characteristics of romantic music is the unique
feature of instrumental forms called “Program music”.
• It is an instrumental music that conveys images or scenes, music
that tells a short story without text or lyrics, and imaginative ideas
fully developed through the imaginative effort of a great and
genius composer, Hector Berlioz.
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Niccolo Paganini (1782to 1840)
PROGRAM MUSIC
• In his composition “Symphonie Fantastique” or also known as
fantastic symphony, Berlioz showcased the important features in
his composition in creating tone color which was never before
heard.
• He treated the orchestra like a beautiful creation and assembled
hundreds of musicians to produced powerful sound. In most of his
composition, he made tone color as the basic part of his musical
language.
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
• bornon December 11, 1803.
• a Romantic, French composer, whose,
at his young age, learned to play
guitar and flute but never became
skilled in any musical instruments
• a boy sent by his physician father to a
medical school to be like his father but
it ends up in studying music
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
• oneof the famous musical
compositions made by Hector Berlioz
is a five-movement symphony called
“Symphonie Fantastique”
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PETER ILYICH
TCHAIKOVSKY
• bornon May 7, 1840 in Votkinsk,
Russia.
• Tchaikovsky studied composition with
Anton Rubinstein and moved to
Moscow and started teaching at the
new conservatory
• known for his ballet music
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PETER ILYICH
TCHAIKOVSKY
• despiteof his personal struggle in
marriage, he continues his music
career in New York and conducted his
work, he experienced a great deal of
fame in the last ten years of his life and
later died because of drinking
unfiltered water from which he got the
cholera
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PETER ILYICH
TCHAIKOVSKY
• himusic is characterized through the
movement heard to some of his ballet
compositions.
• he composed haunting melodies and
used great deal of folk music in his
symphonic works
• his music is known for being both too
beautiful and too depressing
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PETER ILYICH
TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky’s famouscompositions were;
Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, The
Nutcracker, Romeo & Juliet, 1812
Overture, Symphony No. 2, Symphony
No. 6 “Pathetique”, Piano Concerto No. 1
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
• bornon October 9, 1835, in Paris.
• started his music through the help of
his aunt by teaching him piano
lessons when he was only 2 years old,
and afterward he began composing
piano pieces at age 3
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
• wasconsidered a composer who
creates elegant music, neat, clean,
polished, and never excessive, and an
example of this is “The Swan”.
• as an organist and one of the best
pianists of his time, he sat very still at
the piano and played gracefully and
cool.
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
• someof the facts during the peak of
his career in musician and composer,
many beautiful building, churches and
instruments were being built in France
which includes the famous Eiffel
Tower.
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
• Best-KnownMusic of Camille Saint-
Saëns were “Carnival of the
Animals”, “Danse Macabre and his
Symphony No. 3”, The Swan”, Over
300 works, unusually in all genres,
including 3 operas (“Samson and
Delilah”, the only one remembered), 5
Symphonies (best known is the
“Symphony No. 3”, Organ Symphony
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
• 3concertos for violin and orchestra,
5 concertos for piano and orchestra,
2 concertos for cello and orchestra,
organ music, numerous pieces for the
piano, approximately 100 songs,
chamber music, sacred music,
including a “Requiem”
Niccolo Paganini (1782to 1840)
Direction: Research about neoclassic period of the
arts. Write the definition, the history and the
composers of the said period. Do this in a ½
crosswise.