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Romanticism

Romanticism. What words best describe the music?. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Hebrides Overture. Fingal’s Cave . Romanticism. A cultural movement of the nineteenth century Characterized by emphasizing the emotional over the rational, the imagination over reason

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Romanticism

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  1. Romanticism

  2. What words best describe the music?

  3. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Hebrides Overture Fingal’s Cave

  4. Romanticism • A cultural movement of the nineteenth century • Characterized by emphasizing the emotional over the rational, the imagination over reason • Emphasis on the individual • Exploration of nature • Nostalgia for past times

  5. Inspiration • Emphasized individual as inspired creator rather than technical master • Importance of spontaneity, being in the moment, rather than precision, perfection • Sources of inspiration?

  6. Opium

  7. Nature Casper David Friedrich (1774-1840) Wanderer above a Sea of Fog (1817-1818) In response to scientific revolution and industrial revolution Problematized deistic model of the world Nature as God’s artistic creation

  8. Neo-classical Landscapes Claude Lorrain (ca 1604-1682) View of La Crescenza(1648-1650)

  9. Romantic Landscapes Thomas Cole (1801-1848) Romantic Landscape with Ruined Tower (1832-1836)

  10. Nostalgia Sir Francis Dicksee (1853-1928) La Belle Dame sans Merci

  11. John William Waterhouse (1849-1917) Juliet (1898)

  12. "A Sick Child brought into the Temple of Aesculapius” (1877)

  13. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

  14. Kubla Khan (1797-1816) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

  15. But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage place ! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover ! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced : Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war !The shadow of the dome of pleasureFloated midway on the waves ;Where was heard the mingled measureFrom the fountain and the caves.

  16. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome ! those caves of ice ! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware ! Beware ! His flashing eyes, his floating hair ! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

  17. Romanticism and Politics • Utopian • Romantic nationalism • Nationhood based on similarities in language and culture • Development of national folklore studies; national epics found • Developed in response to imperial/monarchial rule

  18. Eugene DelacroixLiberty Leading the People (1830)

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