What Is The Historical-Cultural Background of Instrumental Romantic Music?

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Instrumental Music of The Romantic Era


Historical and Cultural Background, Piano Music, and its Famous Composers.
1820 - 1910

Objectives
History and Cultural Background of The Romantic Era

Characteristics

Musical Elements

Famous Composers

Differences between Romantic Era music and Modern Music

What is the Historical-Cultural background of Instrumental


Romantic music?
What was history back in the Romantic Era?

it was an intellectual, artistic, and literary movement


which started in the second half of the 18th Century in
Europe

gained momentum for the reactions of people against the


Industrial Revolution

at the time, people were rebelling against social and


political standards of the Classical Period and in
expressing it in their artwork like literature, arts, education,
and music

How does its history relate to the arts and media?

it became the result of a period of change

it moved away from the standards of balance and restraint


prominent during the Classical Period

it allowed artistic freedom and experimentation

it became very expressive

Mademoiselle Guimard as Terpsichore by Jacques Louis


David

Characteristics of Romantic Era music


include themes that focused on national identity,
surrender to nature, the mystic and supernatural, a
longing for the infinite, the strange and surprising,
spiritual experiences, and subjectivism

Instrumental Music of The Romantic Era 1


Score for "Concerto for Violin No. 1 in G minor" by Max Bruch

Composers
Ludwig Van Beethoven - bridged the music from Classical to Romantic Era by expressing his passion and emotion
through his music

Instrumental Music of The Romantic Era 2

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