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Bell Ringer – 1/14
M.socrative.com – Room #38178
QUESTIONS:
(1) What created emotion in music?
(2) How did the orchestra change?Slide2
Romantic Music 2
Program Music, Symphonies, OperasSlide3
Symphonies!
Already talked about Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9
Symphonies were now being written in the manner of Beethoven’s 9, and even further challenged the orchestra in new ways.Slide4
Symphonies
Schubert also wrote symphonies
Most famous:
Symphony No. 8 “The Unfinished Symphony”
Started in 1822, but only has 2 complete movements
Most symphonies have 4 movements (fast, slow, dance, fast)
The third movement exists in piano score, with only two pages orchestrated
Why do you think it wasn’t finished?Slide5
Schubert’sUnfinished symphony
First Movement
In sonata form, but almost a minuet and trio as it is in triple meter
Opening clarinet melody is VERY famousSlide6
Hector Berlioz
The other symphony we’ll explore is Berlioz’s Symphony
Fantastique
It is a symphony, but it is also program musicSlide7
Program Music
Romantic composers structured their longer works around a non-musical story, a picture, or some other idea
Also known as “descriptive” music
Not entirely new, but really takes off in the Romantic period (most popular during this period)
The Romantic period is known as “the age of program music”Slide8
Program Music - Berlioz
Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), French
Symphonie
Fantastique
(1830)
Involves a single motive that ties all five movements together
The story involves a hero who has poisoned himself because of unrequited love. However, the drug only sends him into semi-consciousness, in which he has hallucinations.Slide9
Symphonie Fantastique
Movement 1: “Reveries” and “Passions”
Typical “love and longing” number
Movement 2: “A Ball”
Movement 3: “In the Country”
Movement 4: “March to the Scaffold”
What is a scaffold?
Movement 5: “Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath”
4:00Slide10
Symphonie Fantastique
Movement 4:
March to the Scaffold
The hero dreams he has killed his beloved and is about to be executed
The motif returns at the end of the movement and is abruptly shattered by the fall of the axe
4:00
The fast pizzicato notes from the strings represent his head rolling down the stairs
The chords that follow represent the cheers from the crowd!Slide11
Night on bald mountain
By Modest Mussorgsky
1839-1881, Russian
“Bald Mountain” is the home of the Devil
Its creatures are coming to worship it
It was arranged and first performed after his death in 1881 by his friend Rimsky-Korsakov
It premiered in 1886
Night on Bald Mountain - FantasiaSlide12
Political Statements
Composers also wrote with the political circumstances of the century in mind
Folk tunes appear in these works as themes, as do local rhythms and harmonies
The exaltation of national identity was consistent with Romantic requirements
Occurs in the music of 19
th
century Russia, Spain, Britain, Scandinavia, Germany, and AustriaSlide13
Tchaikovsky
Peter
Ilyich
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Russian (but of Western music traditions)
Went to law school, and worked for the government, but quit to play music
Some of his pieces rate amongst the most popular concert and theatrical music in the repertoireSlide14
1812 Overture
Commemorates Russia’s defense of Moscow against Napoleon
The Russian and French anthems are going to head to head.
In the finale,
cannons fire
, ringing chimes, and brass fanfares
The Russian music triumphs!
Includes a full choir
1812 Overture Finale
The Boston Pops plays it on the 4
th
of July every year
Ending (2:30)Slide15
Romeo and Juliet
Tchaikovsky – program music without the political overtones
Based on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
Romeo & Juliet
(9:00)Slide16
Tchaikovsky’s ballets
Tchaikovsky wrote some of the most famous ballets of all time
The Nutcracker
Swan Lake
We will study these in the dance section of our unitSlide17
Pieces to Know
Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Chopin’s Nocturne Op. 9, No. 2
New
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo & Juliet
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture
Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain
Berlioz’s
Symphonie
Fantastique
March to the Scaffold
Schubert’s “Unfinished Symphony”Slide18
Piece Naming Practice
1.
Franz Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
(
7:07)
2.
First
Movement
“Unfinished
” (beginning)
3.
Romeo & Juliet
(
9
:00)
4.
Chopin Nocturne Op.9 No.2
(
Beginning)
5.
Night on Bald Mountain -
Fantasia
(1:25)
6.
1812 Overture
Finale
(3:00)
7.
Movement 4: March to the
Scaffold
(1:30)