Romanticism

Question 1

Hoffmann belief about romanticism and classical

Answer 1

Romanticism is concurrent with romanticism, not the period succeeding it

Question 2

Musikwissenschaft

Answer 2

Clear division of periods, themes and catagories

Question 3

How is folk song related to romanticism

Answer 3

Spirit of the people

Nationalist

Question 4

How does Jim Samson think we should consider romanticism

Answer 4

Diverse range of ideas and motivations

Question 5

Jim Samsons two opposing tendencies in romantic

Answer 5

Sustained song like melodies

Closely integrated motivic process

Question 6

Jim Samson tensions belief

Answer 6

Tension = expression

Question 7

Romanticism as a historical period

Answer 7

1780-1830

Question 8

19th C artists

Answer 8

Projected
Internal
Reflection of author

Question 9

Traces of romanticism before 1780

Answer 9

Storm und Drang movement 1760s

Rousseaus writings 1712-78

Question 10

When do literary composers say romanticism ends

Answer 10

1830

Question 11

What romanticism comes later?

Answer 11

France

American

Question 12

Characters and themes of romanticism

Answer 12

Majesty of nature vs smallness of man
Psychological realism
Opposites
The supernatural
Philosophy

Question 13

Central romantic questions

Answer 13

Subject matter

Musical language

Question 14

Musical language

Answer 14

Scale
Experimentation
Ruin and the fragment
Conflicts and opposites
Weltschmerz
Distance
Folk-culture

Question 15

Weltschmerz

Answer 15

World weariness

Question 16

How does schumanns Papillon show fragment

Answer 16

Grossvatertanz
Reference to waltz
Combination of themes
Character fades

Question 17

What’s more important than form?

Answer 17

Content

Question 18

Example of countryside influencing music

Answer 18

Mendelssohn symphony no. 3 ‘Scottish’

Question 19

Example of experimentation

Answer 19

Berlioz grande messe des marts ‘requiem’

Question 20

Sense of longing

Answer 20

Wagner, Prelude of Tristan und Isolde