Chapter 14: Romantic Period
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- What are 2 trends of the Romantic Period?
- individualism and birth of the "blue collar worker"
- Who is Karl Marx?
- philosopher,refined SOCIALISM and COMMUNISM, Das Kapital
- Who is Georg Hegel?
- philosopher, art=beauty, beauty=truth
- 3 characteristics of 18th Century art?
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form, intellect, sophistication
(19th is emotional, feeling, total self-expression) - 3 characteristics of 19th Century art?
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emotional, feeling, total self-expression
(18th is form, intellect, sophistication) - Who is Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres?
- specialized in portraits, sensuous textures (smooth), spatial, INFLUENCED BY DAVID AND RAPHAEL
- What did Ingres do?
- painted Joan of Arc
- Who is Theodore Gericault?
- child prodigy, multiple focal points, some large canvases, INFLUENCED BY MICHELANGELO AND RUBENS
- Who is Francisco de Goya?
- Rococo style, became deaf in 1792, brush stroke important, later paintings very political or bizarre objects
- What did Goya do?>
- painted Clothed Maja and Group on Balcony, The Third of May 1808
- Who is Joseph Turner?
- English dude, child prodigy, SEASCAPES, oils/watercolors, fragmented paintings
- What did Turner do?
- The Fisherman at Sea, The Slave Ship, Sunrise with Sea Monsters
- Who is Rosa Bonheur?
- one of 1st successful female artists, romanticist/realist, usually animals, paintings made into engravings
- What did Bonheur do?
- A Couple of Deer,Plowing in the Nivernais
- Who is Sir edwin Henry Landseer?
- Victorian painter, animals, depicted with human traits
- What did Landseer do?
- Dignity and Impudence, The old Shepards Chief Mourner
- What are 5 important things about Romantic Music?
- Expressive/complex, color and timber is explored, rise of virtuoso musician, pieces for specific people, CADENZAS
- What is a Cadenza?
- a brilliant solo passage occuring near the end of a piece of music
- What did Nicolo Paganini do?
- MUSIC: Caprice No. 1
- Who is Franz Schubert?
- composing at 13, best known for Lied, LIEDER
- What is Lieder?
- German song with vocal melody and pano accompaniments w/poetic ext
- What did Schubert do?
- MUSIC: Die Erlkonig
- Who is Frederic Chopin?
- concert pianist, Rubato, expressive and technically demanding, variety of piano works
- What is Rubato?
- "robbed time"
- What did Chopin do?
- MUSIC: Nocturne in Eb Major
- What were 2 Women Composers?
- Clara Schumann, and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
- Who is Clara Schumann?
- wife of Robert Schumann, one of foremost European pianist, composer
- Who is Fanny Hensel?
- sister of Felix Mendelssohn, composer pianist and conductor (MUSIC Geheimes Flustern hier und dort)
- Wh ois Hector Berlioz?
- influential figure in orchestration, SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE
- What is Symphonie Fantastique?
- multiple movements tied together by a certain motif
- What did Berlioz do?
- MUSIC: Dream of a Witches Sabbath
- Who is Johannes Brahms?
- folk/dance idioms, expressive and passionate, considered successor to Beethoven in the symphony
- What did Brahms do?
- MUSIC: Symphony No. 1 in C minor MVT 1
- What are 3 special things about Italian Opera?
- Lyric Opera and Opera Comique, Heavily used Lietmotif
- What is Lyric Opera?
- very lyrical, fantastical, somewhat serious
- What is Opera Comque?
- had pseakin, not very heavy or serious
- What is Lietmotif?
- a melodic phrase that accompanies the reappearance of a person or situation
- Who are 2 Italian opera Dudes?
- Giuseppe Verdi and Gioachino Rosinni
- What did Verdi do?
- MUSIC: Rigoletto - "La Donna e Mobile"
- What did Rosinni do?
- MUSIC: Barber of Seville "Una Voce Poco Fa"
- Who is Richard Wagner?
- Composer, developed Grand Opera, RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES BABY!
- What did Wagner do?
- Flight of the Valkyries