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Raindrop Prelude . Romantic Period . What do you see/hear?. The Romantic Period . 1800-1900 Music, art and literature was focused on the expression of intense but ordinary emotions of love, grief, death, beauty etc
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Raindrop Prelude Romantic Period
The Romantic Period • 1800-1900 • Music, art and literature was focused on the expression of intense but ordinary emotions of love, grief, death, beauty etc • Composers started to write programmatic pieces that told stories through music • Composers started to break away from traditional forms in order to capture these emotions
Features of Romantic Music Expansion and development of the orchestra
Features of Romantic Music • Expansion and development of the Orchestra • String section doubled in size • More woodwind and brass added • Huge range of percussion instruments added
Features of Romantic Music • Expansion and development of the Orchestra • Listen to these examples of a classical and a romantic orchestra. Can you hear the difference? • Melody lines started to become longer and more developed
Features of Romantic Music • Use of extended Chords • Triads with added notes: • Dominant 13th: Chord 5 with added 13th note • Diminished 7th: Chord made up of minor 3 intervals (B D F Ab) • Neopolitan chord: Chord 2, flattened, in first inversion (remember Bernstein?) • Augmented 6th: Chord which contains an Augmented 6th interval (Ab C EbFsharp)
Features of Romantic Music • Harmony (example) • Harmony is Discordant (clashes) and uses chromatic notes to portray strong emotions such as grief or anger
Features of Romantic Music • Strong and varied dynamic contrasts • Pppp-ffff
Features of Romantic Music • Increased level of technical demand • Lead to the rise of the virtuoso performer • A person who excels in their art form. • Composers wrote for themselves to perform, or for well known virtuosic performers of the time • Idea came from the Romantic idea of the struggle of the individual
Features of Romantic Music • Nationalism • Composers used features of the traditional and folk music's from their own countries • E.G Chopin used Polish folk melodies and dance rhythms in his pieces