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Romantique

Delve into the Romantic period of music with a captivating presentation, fun quiz, and samples of romantic compositions. Test your knowledge and learn about the composers, instruments, and historical context for FREE!

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Romantique

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  1. Musique Romantique by Miguel Martinez de Aguirre

  2. Program • Wonderful presentation with amazing facts and brilliant on-going quiz! • The quiz consists of finding the mistakes in this presentation as they come • Samples of Romantic music • Final quiz • To show of the knowledge you gleaned from this wonderful experience! • And all this for FREE! • Not including the opportunity cost of the time spent here and any other variables which have not been included.

  3. Dates • The Romantic period lasted about 95 years, starting 1715 and ending 1810. • Anyone? • Well done! The actual dates are 1815 to 1910. • The Early Romantic period is considered to be from 1800 to 1850 • The Late Romantic era being the rest of the time, i.e. 1850 to 1910

  4. Composers • Beethoven was one of the first composers to cross from Classical to Romantic • Mendelssohn was an Early Romantic composer. • Tchaikovsky was a Late Romantic composer

  5. More! Current Events • The Industrial Revolution was happening • This had practical effects on the instruments themselves with valves and keys on which brass and woodwind instruments depended being improved. • This lead to an increase in the numbers of these instruments in the orchestra. • The piano was also improved and it overtook the harpsichord. This led to less dynamics in the solo instrument in concertos and in general in the orchestra.

  6. Instruments • Orchestras were much larger than in previous periods with more even mixtures of brass, woodwind and strings as opposed to a dominance by the string instruments. • Instruments that were invented or saw an increasingly large role in orchestras included: • Saxophone • Flute • Cheese • Tuba Ok yeah, that was Celeste …

  7. Quiz Spot the intruder: (hands up only!) • Ludwig van Beethoven • Johann Strauss I • Mike Oldfield • Camille Saint-Saëns • Antonín Dvořák • Erlebach • Elfrieda Andree • Mr G.

  8. Quiz • Dates of: • Romantic period (as per earlier slide) • Early romantic • Late romantic • My Birthday!

  9. Quiz • Name the piece, composer and what it is for/from. • My name 

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