Romantic Study Guide / Mus 115 - Nathanson

Part V The Romantic Period (pages 203-208)

Chapter 1 Romanticism in Music (209-213)

· Characteristics of Romantic Music

Chapter 2 Romantic Composers and Their Public (pages 213-215)

Chapter 3 The Art Song (pages 215-216)

Chapter 4 Franz Schubert (pages 216-221)

· The Lied - The Erlkönig (know each character)

Chapter 5 Robert Schumann (pages 221-224)-from Carnival, Estrella

Chapter 6 Clara Schumann (pages 224-227)

Chapter 7 Frédéric Chopin (pages227-232),

· Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2

· Etude in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 12 (Revolutionary)

Chapter 8 Franz Liszt (pages 232-235)

Chapter 10 Program Music (pages 238-239)

Chapter 11 Hector Berlioz (pages 239-245),

· Symphonie Fantastique, Fourth Movement, (March to the Scaffold)

Chapter 12 Nationalism (pages 245-249), Bedrich Smetana, The Moldau

Chapter 13 Anotnin Dvorák (pages 249-252)

· Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 (From the New World)

Chapter 14 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (pages 253-255)

Chapter 15 Johannes Brahms (pages 255-260)

Chapter 18 Richard Wagner (pages 270-272)

· Music Drama

· leitmotiv

· Tristan and Isolde

· Will vs. Appearance (Arthur Schopenhauer)

· extreme chromaticism

· lack of cadences

· endless melody