Romantic composers

premiered on the16th of March 1870, but was only finalized 10 years late on the 10th of September 1880 (Elliott). Tchaikovsky was a romantic composer and wrote his Fantasy Overture as a symphonic poem in sonata form in the romantic era. Romeo and Juliet was followed up by R. Murray Schafer concerto for Harp and Orchestra. Born in 1933, R. Murray Schafer is a Canadian composer, writer, music educator and environmentalist (Centre de Musique Canadienne). His concerto for Harp and Orchestra was composed in

and eventually went on to shape and redefine the music of the Romantic period he was born in with his revolutionary composition the German Requiem. The romantic period was a movement in art and literature that started in the 18th century. This revolution emphasized on inspiration, subjectivity and how the individual felt about the art. Morner, Kathleen and Ralph Rausch “Friedrich Schlegel is given credit for first using the term romantic to describe literature, defined it as "literature depicting emotional

make the audience feel uncomfortable. Many times in both Hollywood’s past and present composers will pair the modernist style of dissonance and uneasy expression with that of an antagonist. This proves to be successful in making the viewers feel uneasy (Audissino 2014, 25-35). Pairing themes with a character became a common practice with motion picture music. This is also a common characteristic of the Romantic style. A character could have a personal theme to be performed when entering the scene

1. Disney’ golden age of animation a) 1940 b)Though Disney films are considered wholesome and upbeat,characteristic of this era of films is their darkness. Though they are somewhat eerie and perhaps disturbing, scenes like these are typically sandwiched between two more upbeat and positive scenes, creating an extreme mood shift that engages all of the audience’s emotions. This style of animation also landed the “Golden Age” the nickname “The Tar and Sugar Era”, due to its dramatic jumps from dark

wider range of emotions, similar to other symphonies from the Romantic period. Beethoven was able to draw from his own internal emotional struggle and reveal some of these insecurities through his compositions but intensifying the Classical form and other practices. Programme Music During the Romanic period, there were many advances in regards to instrumentation, and the size of a typical orchestra increased in size and range, adding in more instruments to the wind, brass and percussion sections

What makes you think of the Romantic Period in music? The music period deemed the “Romantic Period” was brought into place by the major social and political stresses following the French Revolution, having the outcome of trends worldwide. The Romantic Period itself, outside of music, was a dramatic movement that was caused by rebelling everything that the Classical Period held as far as standards in music, art, and societal living. This rebellion against the cultural norm caused differing standpoints

Frédéric Chopin’s “Revolutionary” Étude Opus 10 No. 12 is a clear example of this, where form, keys & harmonies, chromaticism, rhythms and dynamics reflect the social/political tension and a sense of nationalism within the composition. The Polish composer was born near Warsaw in 1810 and died in Paris during 1849. Chopin’s Etudes are not only intense technical studies but also poetic statements, combining virtuosity with artistic content. The French word of “étude” translates into English as a

“During the Romantic period, the piano (pianoforte) became the most popular single instrument. It became a musical symbol of Romanticism, and was enlarged to give it a wider range and more tonal power” (kaublepianostudio.com). In both pieces, the piano has the job of

Brahms’ Brahms’ Brahms’ Third Third Third In his early days, Brahms was attracted to the traditional form of classical music specifically Beethoven and Haydn. When the original form of the symphony was created, many composers tried to follow and fit the same mold. In this third symphony from an older Brahms, we see that he fits this mold by having this symphony divided into a fast-slow-minuet-fast. Just years before Brahms wrote his first symphony, he was declared as the heir to Beethoven. This obviously

Mendelssohn requires the acknowledgement of two key observations: the essentially classical structure of Mendelssohn’s compositions and the frequent romantic innovations Mendelssohn employed. Mendelssohn was a conservative fixture in an era of radical upheaval—the early nineteenth century. Intellectually in Europe, this was an era of transition, as the romantics sought to upend the enlightenment establishment across all areas of artistic, scientific and cultural production: whether the orderly structures