Romantic Music
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- Created on: 26-05-15 15:17
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- Romantic 1800-1850
- Features
- Uses a large orchestra
- Exploits the dramatic conflict between soloist and orchestra
- Often has the emphasis on virtuosic display
- Often has very difficult solo parts
- Has cadenzas written by the composer rather than improvised
- Instruments
- String family: Violin Viola Cello (violoncello) ]Bass (double bass, contra bass)
- Percussion family: Timpani (kettledrums) Snare drum Bass drum Cymbals Tambourine Triangle Xylophone Glockenspiel
- Woodwind family: Flute, Piccolo Oboe, English horn Clarinet, Bass clarinet Bassoon, Contrabasso-on
- Brass family Trumpet Horn (French horn) Trombone Tuba
- Keyboards and Harp: Piano Organ Harp
- Notable Composers
- Isaac Albéniz
- Cantos de España
- Suite española,
- Piano Concerto
- Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin
- Hungarian Dances.
- German Requiem
- Variations on the St. Antony Chorale
- Johannes Brahms
- Polonaises in G minor
- Rondo à la Krakowiak
- Variations, op. 2 on a theme from Don Juan by Mozart
- Isaac Albéniz
- Forms
- Symphony
- 1st movement: Allegro (fast) in sonata form
- 4th movement: Allegro
- 3rd movement: Minuet (a dance with three beats in a bar)
- 2nd movement: Slow
- Sonata
- Most of the musical ideas come from two contrasting themes heard in the exposition.
- In the exposition there are two main melodies; first and second subject.
- The first subject is in the tonic key.The second subject is in a different key, usually the dominant or the relative minor. Connected by a transition or bridge passage.
- in the recapitulation the exposition is repeated (recapped) in a slightly different and shorter form. The first and second subject are now in the tonic key.
- In the development material from the exposition is transformed. The music goes through modulations (key changes).
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