INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC OF

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

1820-1900
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 ROMANTIC PERIOD

▪ Is described as a cultural movement that stressed

emotion, imagination, individualism and freedom of
expression.
 CHARACTERISTICS
▪ Use of extreme expressions and emotions
▪ A freedom in composing
▪ Expansion of the orchestra
▪ Emphasis on lyrical melodies
▪ Love, nature, religion, and nationalism are its main
themes.
 FEATURES
Nationalism Exoticism
- composers used materials from - uses influences from foreign
the history of their native country lands in their composition
to highlight their culture.
 MUSIC OF THE
ROMANTIC PERIOD
Vocal Forms
 ART SONG

▪ A composition for a solo voice or piano

▪ Vocal piece or work that place great importance
on the written text or symbolic meaning of the text
 SYMPHONIC POEM

▪ Also called “Tone Poem” developed by Franz Liszt

▪ An orchestral piece that portrayed a story or had a
literary or artistic background
 MUSIC OF THE
ROMANTIC PERIOD
Instrumental Music
 PIANO
▪ Invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori
▪ It can produced both soft and loud sound unlike
harpsichord and the organ
 STRING INSTRUMENTS
▪ Classical instruments were still used.
▪ Grew in number to balance the sound from the
other group of the instruments.
 BRASS-PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS
▪ Gongs, bass drum, and snare drums were added.
▪ Timpani is always used in the orchestra.
 PROGRAM MUSIC
▪ Is the unique feature of instrumental forms
▪ Conveys images or scenes, music that tells a short
story without text or lyrics and imaginative ideas
 MUSIC OF THE
ROMANTIC PERIOD
Music Composers
 Niccolo Paganini

✓ Born on October 27, 1782, Italy

✓ At the age of 5 he plays Mandolin
✓ At age of 7, he transferred his training
in violin
✓ Because the famous violin virtuoso in
the world
✓ His famous works – La Campanella ,
The Carnival of Venice, Concerto No.
1 in Eb, Op.6
 FREDERIC CHOPIN

✓ Born on March 1, 1810 , Poland

✓ Was known as the “Poet of the Piano”
✓ Was considered world renowned
pianist and composer
✓ At age 4 , he began to play piano
polonaise
✓ Studied piano at Warsaw
Conservatory under Wilheim Wurfel
and his music influenced by polish folk
music.
✓He met and married the famous French writer George Sand
✓In the later part of his life, he was diagnosed with pulmonary
tuberculosis
✓Chopin died on October 17, 1849 in Paris
 FRANZ LISZT
✓ Known as the virtuoso pianist and composer and the
busiest musicians during the Romantic Period.
✓ At age 6, understands sight reading through the
effort of his father
✓ Dedicated himself doing piano music
✓ People consider him as a generous composer by
sharing both time and money to the orphans, victim
of disasters and taught music to many students for
free.
✓12 transcendental etudes
✓Sonata in B minor
✓Arrangements of the q
 ROBERT SCHUMANN

✓ Famous composer that worked

intensively between music and
words
✓ Considered himself as the heir to
the original creative tradition of
Beethoven and Schubert
 PETER TCHAIKOVSKY

✓ Is a Romantic Russian musician who

produced various kind of compositions
that include operas, ballets, concertos,
chamber music, and symphonies.
✓ His music has profound appeal to public
 CHARLES-CAMILLE SAINT SAENS

✓ An organist, conductor, pianist, and

composer of the Romantic period.
✓ He wrote music belonging to various
genres like symphony, concerto, opera,
solo piano, chamber music, and
secular piano music.