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 THE MABINI ACADEMY
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
MUSIC, ARTS, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH 9
QUARTER 4: VOCAL MUSIC OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

Quarter Vocal Music of the

4 Romantic Period

1 Art Song

OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, the learners will be able to:

1. Listen perceptively to selected art songs and excerpts of opera pieces.
2. Sing themes or melodic fragments of given selected songs.

Art Song
- is a poem expressed into music
- it is a short vocal solo piece based on a poem that is often accompanied
by piano

Lied – is a German art song

Lieder – refers to group of German art songs

Art songs are in either a strophic form (plays the same melody in all
stanzas) and a through-composed music (each stanza of the poem is sung to
a new music).

Erlkonig – also known as the “Erlking” or the “Elf King”

- It was an art song composed by Franz Schubert, which was based on
the poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- It is intended to be performed by a singer and a pianist.

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JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
MUSIC, ARTS, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH 9
QUARTER 4: VOCAL MUSIC OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

Summary of Erlking

Goethe’s poem tells the story of a boy riding home on horseback in

his father’s arms. He is frightened when he is courted by the Erl-King, a
powerful and creepy supernatural being. The boy’s father, however, cannot
see or hear the creature and tells the boy that his imagination is playing tricks
on him. The boy grows increasingly terrified by what he hears from the Erl-
King, but his father tells him that the things he thinks he sees and hears are
only the sights and sounds of nature on a dark and stormy night. When the
Erl-King eventually seizes the boy, the father spurs on his horse, but when he
arrives home his son is dead.

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JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
MUSIC, ARTS, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH 9
QUARTER 4: VOCAL MUSIC OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

2 Opera

OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, the learners will be able to:

1. Narrate the plot and musical and theatrical elements of an opera after a
video and movie showing session
2. Improvise appropriate accompaniment to a given short and simple
classical music piece

Opera
- is an Italian word that means “work”
- it is a play or drama set into music

Two Faces of Opera

1. Italian Opera – the song is the focus (vocal part)
Bel canto – literally means “beautiful singing,” it is a form of singing
developed by Italian composers

2. German Opera – it shifts focus from the voice to the orchestra

Terms used in Opera

a. Overture – this is an instrumental introduction to an opera
b. Recitative – this is the text declaimed in the rhythm of natural speech with
a slight melodic variation and little orchestral accompaniment.
c. Aria – this is a solo song with an instrumental accompaniment
d. Libretto – this is the text of the story of the opera
e. Librettist – this person is the writer of the libretto
f. Bel Canto – this is an Italian phrase that means beautiful singing
g. Leitmotif – this is the leading motive or basic recurring theme
h. Opera Seria – this is a serious opera
i. Opera Buffa – this is a comic opera

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JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
MUSIC, ARTS, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH 9
QUARTER 4: VOCAL MUSIC OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

More Composers of the

3 Romantic Period

OBJECTIVES

At the end of the lesson, the learners will be able to:

1. Listen perceptively to selected art songs and excerpts of opera.
2. Narrate the life and works of Romantic composers after video and movie
showing

Composers of the Romantic Period

Franz Schubert
- Austrian composer born on 31 January 1797
- He was able to compose 600 lieder, seven complete
symphonies, two sonatas, and a series of miniatures
for solo piano, two Mass settings and other shorter
choral works, four stage works, and various other
projects.
- He died on 19 November 1828

Giuseppe Verdi
- He was an Italian composer born on 10 October 1813
- He studied music privately under another composer,
Vincenzo Lavigna
- He was known for his successful operas such as
Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Falstaff, and Aida
- He died on 21 January 1901

Giacomo Puccini
- An Italian composer born on 22 December 1858 in
Lucca, Italy
- The Puccinis were organists and composers of the

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JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
MUSIC, ARTS, PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND HEALTH 9
QUARTER 4: VOCAL MUSIC OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

Cathedral of San Martino for five generations

- His famous works include Tosca, Edgar, Turandot, La Boheme, and
Madame Butterfly
- He died due to post-operative shock on 29 November 1924

Richard Wagner
- He was a famous German composer, primarily known
for his complex and controversial operas
- He was born on 22 May 1813 in Leipzig, Germany.
- Wagner became one of the world’s most influential
composers
- His works are known for their complex texture, rich
harmonies and orchestration, and elaborate us of
leitmotifs.
Leimotif – refers to an associated melodic
phrase or figure that accompanies
the reappearance of an idea, person or situation.
- His famous works include “The Flying Dutchman”, “Tannhauser”,
“Lohengrin”, “Tristan und Isolde”, “Parsifal”, and his great tetralogy,
“Der Ring des Nibelungen” (Ring of the Nibelungs).
- He died of a heart attack in Venice on 13 February 1883

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