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a. Introduction to Romantic style

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Art song: pg. 241- song for solo voice and piano accompaniment (Lied)
i. Schubert, “Erlking” Pg. 242-245
a. Poetry written by Goetheb. Piano that pounds relentlessly fast
c. Typifies romantic fascination with the supernatural and the macabre.
d. Text is a ballad
e. Boy cries out in tense chromatic ascentf. “through composed art song”- ever changing melodic and harmonic material

ii. Schuman, “Du Ring” pg.247
g. Love poem
h. Won wife’s hand through legal battle
i.Strophe 3 is similar to and strophe 5 is identical to strophe 1.
j. ABACA rondo musical form
Program Symphony: pg. 253
* a symphony with the usual three, four, or five movements, which togetherdepict a succession of specific events or scenes drawn from an extramusical story or event.
i. Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, v pg. 254
* Program symphony
* Idee fixe
* 5 movementsinstead of the usual 4.
* Written about the actress he was obsessed with.
* First movement: reveries, passions
* Second: a ball
* Third: scene in the country
* Fourth: march to thescaffold
* Fifth: dream of the witches’ Sabbath.
* Dias irae played twice as fast, then jazzed up, making it blasphemous
iii. Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet pg.261
k. Intro,exposition, development, recapitulation, coda

13. April 4
Romantic Piano Music & Opera (read Chapters 25-27)
a. Character Piece for Piano:
i. Chopin, Mazurka in B flat major, opus. 7. No. 1 pg.268* Mazurka- fast dance in triple meer with an accent on the second beat.
* Harmony suggests that of droning bagpipe.
* Begins like a triple meter waltz
* Strong accent on beat 2 notbeat 1.
* In section C mode switches from major to minor
* ABACA
ii. Chopin, Nocturne in C sharp minor, Opus 27, No. 1 pg.269
* Creates bitter sweet feeling by shifting from major to...