The Classical and Romantic Periods

Classical / Romantic Music Influence

Kill da Wabbit!! From Wagner s Ring Cycle

Disney s Fantasia

Disney s Sorcerer's Apprentice

Mozart s Blue Rondo Alla Turk

Classical Period: 1730-1820

Important Historical Events during the Classical Period

Other Important Events

Boston Tea Party

The Revolutionary War - 1775-1783

Paris Conservatory

Paris Conservatory Stop here

Architecture of the Classical Period

Examples of Classical Architecture Pantheon in Rome Parthenon in Greece US Capitol Building

Ionic, Doric and Corinthian Architecture

Doric Architecture Example

Ionic Architecture Example

Corinthian Architecture Example

Classical Art and Music

Classical Period Musical Styles

Classical Period Musical Forms

Franz Joseph Haydn

Haydn - Symphony 94 Surprise Stop here

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart s Style and Influence

Queen of the Night aria from the Magic Flute

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik

Catalogue aria from Don Giovanni After Donna Elvira confronts Don Giovanni, who had betrayed her, Leporello (bass) tells her that she should forget him, and then produces a book of the Don's feminine conquests: 640 in Italy, 231 in Germany, 100 in France, 91 in Turkey, and 1003 in Spain.

Dies Irae from the Requiem

Mozart s Style and Influence

Childhood in music...

Timpani

Haydn and Mozart Stop here

Ludwig van Beethoven

Classical Music Meme.

Beethoven Hard Rock of the 19th Century

Ludwig van Beethoven

Beethoven

Beethoven - Symphony #1

Beethoven Symphony #1 - Intro It doesn t get to the right key until about 1:45 into the symphony...

Beethoven - Heiligenstadt Testament

Beethoven - Three Compositional Periods

Beethoven - Three Compositional Periods Moonlight Sonata from Immortal Beloved

Moonlight Sonata

Eroica Symphony - tidbit

Symphony Eroica (No. 3) Stop here

Beethoven s 5th Beethoven s impressive piano writing and ambitious symphonies made quick splashes, and by the time he was onto his Fifth Symphony in 1808, heads of state at peace accords in Vienna would schedule their meetings around Beethoven performances so as to not miss them.

Beethoven s 5th

Fidelio - his ONLY Opera

Beethoven - Three Compositional Periods

Beethoven s 9th

Beethoven s 9th - 1st Movement

Beethoven s 9th - 1st movement

Beethoven s 9th - 2nd Movement

Beethoven s 9th - Choral Finale Symphony No. 9 is often nicknamed the choral symphony, but it s only the finale that features a choir. Using singers in a symphony was a wild idea at the time, but it seems to have paid off Beethoven s Ninth Symphony changed the face of classical music forever, and continues to inspire listeners and composers to this day!

Beethoven - facts

Beethoven - Influence on Classical

Romantic Period 1820? - 1900

Romantic Period 1830-1900

Trail of Tears

American Civil War 1861-1865

American Inventions 1st Telephone - 1876 1st Phonograph - 1877 1st Light Bulb - 1878

Daimler - Benz First Automobile 1886

First Zeppelin 1899 Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin - built it on a floating hangar (pictured). Called it a LuftSchiff - (Lifted Ship) Waited until Summer of 1900 for first flight. The first flight lasted about 18 minutes and covered about 3-1/2 miles over the lake.

Romantic Architecture overview

Romantic Period Architecture

Trinity Church View from the Courtyard View from Wall Street

Skyscrapers Chicago s Home Insurance Building 1st steel frame skyscraper 1885 Guaranty Building Buffalo, NY 1896

Fast and Friendly Guide to Romantic Era

Romantic Music Overview (a little more in-depth) Stop here

Romantic Period 1820? - 1900

Diatonic vs. Chromatic

Chromaticism for self-expression

Chromaticism s function

Franz Schubert

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Gretchen am Spinnerade Schubert wrote his first masterpiece at 17 a setting of Goethe s 'Gretchen am Spinnrade' (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel). Already the composer was making the piano part an integral element of the song. The accompaniment mimics the revolving wheel, speeding up and slowing down in response to the text.

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Schubertiads

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Schubert

The Trout Quintet

The Trout

Unfinished Symphony

Schubert s Legacy

Die Erlkonig

Der Erlkönig

Franz Schubert s Death Stop here

Richard Wagner

Wagner the Polemicist

Hitler and Wagner

Wagner s Greatest Contribution

Williams - stealing the Leitmotif idea...

John Williams is da MAN!!! Story of Star Wars: A New Hope told with all John William s Leitmotifs - John Williams is the man by Moosebutter.

Wagner s Greatest Hits

Bayreuth Festspielhaus

Der Ring Des Nibelungen

The Ring Cycle

Very Brief Synopsis...

Very Brief Synopsis...the video

Debt...

Controversies...

Anti-semitism...

Racism...

Nazi Appropriation

Wagner s Music in Israel

Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker

French Impressionist

Impressionist Composers Debussy - produces watery smooth, flowing music that gives impressions of what he names his works.

Impressionist Composers Chopin - Funeral March

Open Note Test take this time to STUDY the test will be HARD!!!