Romantic Music

Concert Music

• Large halls (factories) require large scale music
  • Maximization - bigger is better
  • Centralization - cult of the conductor
• Orchestras of color
• The growing complexity
• Program Music
  • Music that tells a story
  • The program as a bridge to the audience
  • Typical Romantic wedding of music and literary elements
  • Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique
    • The program
    • Movement V - Witches Sabbath
    • Idee fixe - fixed idea theme representing his beloved
    • Dies irae - 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