TOPICS
INTRODUCTION

THE FRAGILE CONFLUENCE OF CLASSICISM DISSOLVES

  • International Style of Classical Idealism
  • Return to Unity of Mood
  • The Nurturing of Extremes
  • Abandonment of Restraint
  • Political Turmoil and the death of Aristocracy
  • The American Revolution
  • The French Revolution

    REJECTING AND EMBRACING THE PAST

    ROOTS OF ROMANTICISM

  • The emergence of the dramatic in the sonata and symphony
  • Discovery of the "real Shakespeare"
  • Links to the Baroque and Empfindsamkeit

    LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770-1827)

  • Beethoven as The Man Who Freed Music
  • The First Symphony as a Point of Departure: "Good-bye to Classicism"
  • The Eruption of the Tonal System

  • Beethoven's Contemporaries THE COMPOSERS

    Neo-Classicists

  • Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
  • Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)
  • Cesar Franck (1822-1890)

    Germany

  • Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
  • Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
  • Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
  • Hugo Wolf (1860-1903)
  • Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

    France

  • Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
  • Felicien David (1810-1876)
  • D.F.E. Auber (1782-1872)
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
  • Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
  • Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
  • Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
  • Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
  • Edouard Lalo (1823-1892)
  • Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)
  • Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)

    Italy

  • Gioacchino Rossini (1791-1868)
  • Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
  • Gaietano Donizetti (1797-1848)
  • Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
  • Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

    Scandinavia

  • Franz Berwald (1796-1868)
  • Niels Wilhelm Gade (1817-1890)
  • Edvard Hagerup Grieg (1843-1907)

    Eastern Europe

  • Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
  • Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

    Russia

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804-1857)
  • Cesar Cui (1835-1938)
  • Aleksander Porfirievich Borodin (1833-1887)
  • Mily Aleksandrovich Balakirev (1837-1910)
  • Modest Petrovich Musorgsky (1839-1881)
  • Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
  • Pyotr Ilyich (Chaikovsky) Tchaikovsky(1840-1893)

    England

  • Edward Elgar (1857-1934)

    United States

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869)
  • Edward MacDowell (1861-1908)

    Cosmopolitan

  • Ferenc (Franz) Liszt (1811-1886)
  • Fryderyk(Frédéric) Chopin (1810-1849)

    Post Romantics

  • Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
  • Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)
  • Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

    THE MUSIC

  • Form and Romanticism
  • New Genre:

  • Vocal Music
  • Instrumental Music

    ROMANTIC ERA & MUSICAL STYLE

  • Nationalism
  • Programmatic Music
  • Expansion of the Orchestra
  • Musical Language
    Harmony, Melody, Rhythm, Sound

    Course Assignments
    Term Project

    Class Projects Underway

    Evaluation

    Policy on Incompletes

    References

    Book Abstracts

    Discography

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