| characteristics of 19th century music |
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Post-enlightenment
About- emotion, love of mystery, evil, and the unknown
Reason-out, no longer popular
Replaced god in the arts with nature or music. Built lots of concert halls |
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| what did 19th composers do with their music |
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| wrote about themselves, were inspired by nature, had new and improved instruments to help them vary their sound |
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| hihgest, purest art form. |
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| what were some features of 19th century music |
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| had exoticism, had a purpose and a mission |
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| 2 major events that occured during this period |
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| industrial revolution and political/social upheavel |
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melodies became more beautiful, bigger range. Rythems more flexible, rubato- when composer moves the tempo forward or pull back
harmonies- richer as well as forms, concharitos and opera’s- longer
program music introduced. |
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| smaller string section 1/4 size of today, no precussion, exception timboni, and no trumbones or tubas |
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absolute music- well ordered and planned
contributed to the creation of symphonies and such |
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| fundimental idea for concert music. contains themes, the way themes are developed help make music enjoyable, themes need to be developed |
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greatest musician ever. syphony 40 composed in 1788, orchestra consisted of a flute, 2 horns, 2 bassons, violas, chellos, 2 oboes, and later 2 clarinets
1756-1791
#17 and don giovani opera. |
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| first movement in sonata form |
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2nd- slow tempo, beautiful melodies
3rd- minuete
4th lively conclusion |
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Composer in the 19th century, had 3 main program pieces, wrote in 5 movements, not 4, and had Idee fixe- the same theme in all 5 movements (the girl)
1803-1869 |
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1732-1809
Autrian, studied at st. stephan, was dismissed when voice changed. moved to hungary string chortets, lord melson, and the seasons |
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| replaced the main concharito in the classical period, almost all in sonata form. |
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| condenza’s- improvization of notes |
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| abaca form. bright and happy, usually last movement |
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unified. 2 main types
seria-tragic about gods and heros
buffa- fun and frilly |
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| small groups, haver 4 movements, sonatas are chamber works in 3-4 movements for piano and one other instrument. |
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| wrote tradgedies in Italy, used brutal realism toward the darker side of humans |
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| contained changes in tempo, 1770-1827, German, never left Vienna, pianist. went deaf, wrote 5th synphony |
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| more romantic love, facination of unknown, and mystical/evil, foundness for far away places. resentment of rules and restrictions, nature appealing and important, art and music important |
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instrumental music that composer associates with idea, or theme.
4 types
1. concert
2. overture
3. independant piece with programic ovrtures
4. incidental music
program synphonony |
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| music dramas-operas, took themes from mythalogical, about ideas not people. Hitler loved him used dissonance and chromaticism in music. Yay Nazi’s De |
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| 4 things at the end of the 19th century |
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| expanded form, flexible number and order, more emotional, nationalism |
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| late 19th century movements |
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| Impressionism and post romanticism both helped break down composition, Impressionism- French Post-modernism- german |
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| Impressionism, gliding chords, mixed up rythems |
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| WWI and WWII effect music big timed. Neo classical- composers write logically and classical styled. |
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| recorded and copied folk music |
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| the rite of spring-somewhat primitive |
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| pop becomes popular, chromatic music and harmonies that skip |
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