Romantic Music

Concert Music

• Large concert halls require large scale music - The Industrial paradigm
  • Maximization - bigger factories are better factories
  • Centralization - Foramen and managers of control
• Orchestras of color as seen in a growing "pallet" of instrumental sounds
• Pervasive experimentation leads to growing complexity
• Program Music
  • Music that tells a story
  • The program as a bridge of understanding to the audience
  • Typical Romantic wedding of music and literary elements
  • Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
    • The program
    • Movement V - Witches Sabbath
    • Idee fixe - fixed idea musical theme representing his beloved
    • Dies irae - a medieval funeral Mass for the dead

Salon Music

• Music written for the home or gathering of intellectuals
• The Lied
  • The German Art Song
  • Written for a singer accompanied on piano
  • Social considerations
• Song Cycle
  • A group of songs united by a common theme
  • Schumann's setting of the Dichterliebe (A Poet's Thought)
• Schubert - Erlking
  • The macabre
  • The Goethe poem

Humanities Resource of Mark Hunter