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Chapter 15 Prelude : Music after Beethoven: Romanticism

Chapter 15 Prelude : Music after Beethoven: Romanticism. Romanticism Cult of individual feeling Revolt The supernatural The macabre Artistic barriers. Key Terms. Early Romantic Timeline. Romanticism (1). Romantic literature & literary theory flourished particularly 1800-1820 .

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Chapter 15 Prelude : Music after Beethoven: Romanticism

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  1. Chapter 15Prelude: Music after Beethoven: Romanticism

  2. Romanticism Cult of individual feeling Revolt The supernatural The macabre Artistic barriers Key Terms

  3. Early Romantic Timeline

  4. Romanticism (1) • Romantic literature & literary theory flourished particularly 1800-1820

  5. Romanticism (2) • Literary figures were talking excitedly about “Romantic” music by the 1820s

  6. Romanticism (3) • To us, the word romantic refers to love • But glorification of love was just one of many Romantic themes

  7. Romanticism and Revolt • American & French Revolutions • 1848 revolutions & upheavals • In France, Germany, Austria, & Italy • Romantics viewed as rebels against the established order • Many composers took up cause of liberty • Beethoven, Liszt, Verdi, Wagner • Social barriers also broken down • Greater social mobility • Liszt’s affairs with noblewomen

  8. Music and the Supernatural • Many supernatural, even macabre subjects

  9. Artistic Barriers (1) • A constant search for higher experience & more intense expression

  10. Artistic Barriers (2) • Composers broke down barriers of harmony & form

  11. Music and the Other Arts (1) • Efforts were made to blend the arts • Poetry became more “musical” • Paintings & musical works were given “poetic” titles • Wagner attempted to merge poetry, drama, music, & stagecraft in his “total artwork”

  12. Music and the Other Arts (2) • Artists tried to express higher experience • Works that evoke the sublime or the infinite

  13. Concert Life • Public concert steadily grew in importance • Concert hall & opera house came to dominate • Even small cities had symphony societies • Including New York & Boston • Organized by merchants, government officials, lawyers, & other members of middle class • Intimate genres increasingly presented on concert stage • Piano works, Lieder, & string quartets

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