Romanticism Flashcards
Romanticism Period
19th century
1800’s
Characteristics
Dramatic Unclear form Art Death Love Supernatural
Schubert
Composer
Lived in Vienna
Schubertiade
Schubert’s salon
Salon
Meeting in a regular house; to play chamber music, discuss poetry and art.
Lied
German language text song for solo voice and piano, it is programmatic
Strophic
Form when the music in a song repeats over and over, but the text changes in each repetition
Example
A’A’A’
Through Composed
No music repetitions
Example
ABCD
Song Cycle
Collection of songs, sometimes with a story
Erlkonig
Is a lied by Goethe. It is about a child who got fever, and his father couldn’t do anything. Erlkonig was mystic and gets the boy
Berlioz
French composer, went to the Paris Conservatoire
Program Symphony
Is a genre
Instrumental music
Simphonie Fantastique
Composed by Berlioz. Autobiography of the artist Extended techniques Huge orchestra 5 movements