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    Romantic vocal music focused on conveying emotion and atmosphere through poems, legends, and folklore. Composers like Schubert, Verdi, and Puccini wrote operas and lieder that required singers to use a wide range of tones, dynamics, and pitches to bring these stories to life. Their works celebrated nature and the supernatural while establishing opera as a major musical art form in the Romantic period.

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    VOCAL MUSIC OF THE

    ROMANTIC PERIOD

    4th grading
    • Composers interpret poems, mood, atmosphere and
    imagery into music.
    • Romantic artists found inspiration in landscapes.
    • Their subjects were traditional myths, legends and
    folklore usually dealing with the supernatural,
    grotesque, and less ordinary.
    • Vocal music in this period require singers to perform a
    greater range of tone color, dynamics and pitch.
    • Opera became an important source of musical
    expressions.
    • The birth of the opera houses came.
      Schubert was born on the 31st of January
    1797 in Himmelpfortgrund, Austria
     The proper name for Franz Schubert songs
    is lieder, which is the German word for
    song.
     He is considered the last of the classical
    composers and one of the first romantic
    ones.
     His famous vocal music works/ Lieder were:
    “Gretchen am Spinnrade”,
    “Erlkonig”,
    “Ellens Gesang III” (“Ave Maria”)
    and “Schwanenge sang” (“Swan Song”).
    • He also wrote piano pieces, string quartets,
    operetta and the Symphony No.8 in B minor
    (“Unfinished Symphony”)
    • He died in 1828 in Vienna, Austria at 31.
    • Verdi was born in Parma, Italy on October 9, 1813.
    • He studied in Busseto and later went to Milan
    where his first opera “Oberto” was performed in
    La Scala, the most important opera house at the
    time.
    • His final opera ends with “All the world’s a joke.”
    • His famous works are La Traviata, Rigoletto,
    Falstaff, Otello and Aida were he wrote for the
    opening of the Suez Canal.
    • Expressive vocal melody is the soul of a Verdi
    opera.
    • He died in Milan, Italy on January 27,1901.
    • Giacomo Puccini was born in a poor
    family on December 22, 1858 in
    Lucca, Italy.
    • He studied at the Milan
    Conservatory.
    • He belonged to a group of
    composers who stressed realism,
    therefore, he drew material from
    everyday life, rejecting heroic
    themes from mythology and history.
    • Puccini’s famous operas were:
    • “La Boheme”,
    • “Tosca”,
    • “Madame Butterfly”, and
    • “Turandot”.
    THE END

    “Every ending is a new beginning’’


    -Marianne Williamson

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