Vocal music flourished during the Romantic period as a means of emotional expression. Composers set poems and stories to music in art songs and operas. The document discusses several prominent composers of the Romantic period and their contributions to vocal music, including Schubert and his lieder, Verdi and his operas expressing political themes, Puccini's operas drawing from everyday life, Wagner's innovative music dramas featuring leitmotifs, and Bizet's famous opera Carmen. Vocal music in this period featured a greater range of tones, dynamics, and pitches to convey feelings and stories.

1. VOCAL MUSIC OF THE
ROMANTIC PERIOD
4th Quarter Lesson
MUSIC Grade 9

2. How do you
express your
feelings?
What do you feel when these
emotions are not expressed?

3. Vocal music is one of the best tools
for expressing one’s feelings.
This form of expression became more evident during the
Romantic period.

4. The parallelisms of music and
literature were clearly evident in
almost all forms of vocal music during
the Romantic period.
Composers interpret poems, mood,
atmosphere and imagery into music.

5. Musical compositions such as:
the art song was written for solo
voice and piano.
• art song has its inspiration from
poetry in this period.

6. Vocal music in this period require
singers to perform a greater range
of tone color, dynamics and pitch.
Because of this, Opera became an
important source of musical
expressions.

7. The birth of the opera houses
came. It was the place where all
the arts converged: not only
music, but poetry, painting,
architecture and the dance as
well.

8. COMPOSERS OF
VOCAL MUSIC DURING
THE ROMANTIC
PERIOD

9. Franz Peter
Schubert
Born: January 31, 1797
Himmelpfortgrund, Austria
Died :1828 in Vienna, Austria at
31.

10. lieder, (German word for song )- the proper
name of his songs
 He developed lieder so that they had a
powerful dramatic impact on the listeners.
 He tapped the poetry of writers like
Johann Goethe.
 He is considered the last of the classical
composers and one of the first romantic
ones.

11. His famous vocal music works/ Lieder were:
 “Gretchen am Spinnrade”,
 “Erlkonig”
 “Ellens Gesang III” (“Ave Maria”)
 “Schwanenge sang” (“Swan Song”).
He alsowrote pianopieces, string quartets, operettaand the
Symphony No.8 in B minor (“UnfinishedSymphony”)

13. Giuseppe Verdi
Born : Parma, Italy on
October 9, 1813.
.

14.  A name associated with Romantic opera
 His characters are neither stock roles nor
symbols like those found in German
operas.
 He insisted on a good libretto.
 He wrote operas with political overtones
and for middle-class audience.

15. • 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.
• Almost all of his works are serious love
story with unhappy ending.
• Expressive vocal melody is the soul of a
Verdi opera.

16. • He completed 25 operas throughout his career.
• His final opera ends with “All the world‟s a
joke.”
• His much acclaimed works are;
La Traviata
Rigoletto
 Falstaff
 Otello and Aida

18. Giacomo Puccini
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

19. he drew material from everyday
life, rejecting heroic themes
from mythology and history.
Famous operas were:
“La Boheme”
“Tosca”
“Madame Butterfly”
“Turandot”.

21. Richard Wagner
Born in Leipzig, Germany
May 22, 1813.
Died of a heart
attack on February
13,1883

22. He was very much inspired by Ludwig van
Beethoven.
 Introduced new ideas in harmony
He also explored the limits of
the traditional tonal system
that gave keys and chords their
identity pointing the way to the
rise of a tonality in the 20th
century.

23. • exerted a strong influence on the operatic medium.
• He was an advocate of a new form of opera which he
called “music drama” where musical and dramatic
elements were fused together.
• He developed a compositional style in which the
orchestra has of equal importance in dramatic roles as
the singers themselves.
• The expressiveness is aided by the use of “leitmotifs” or
musical sequences standing for a particular
character/plot element.

24. His famous works are;
 Tristan and Isolde
 Die Walkure
 Die Meistersinger,
 Tannhauser and Parsifal.
His work would later influence
modern film scores, including those of the Harry
Potter and Lord of the Rings film series.

26. Georges Bizet
was registered with
the legal name
Alexandre-Cesar-
Leopold
Bizet, but was
baptized Georges
Bizet
born October 25, 1838
in Paris, France.

27. o He entered the Paris Conservatoryof musicat a very
young age.
o Bizet became famous for his operas.
His most famous opera is“Carmen”.
However, when “Carmen” first opened in Paris, the reviews were
terrible. The shows were criticized in horrible ways that resulted
in poor audience attendance.

28. During the first round of “Carmen”
performances, Bizet died (June 3, 1875).
He was only 36.
Four months later, “Carmen” opened in Vienna,
Austria, and was a smash hit.
CARMEN- is now one of the most popular operas
ever written.

29. Activity No. 1
Activity notebook
Listen to the two songs that I will
play and answer the questions
given: you may express your
answer in Filipino or English

30. WHICH is WHICH?
REFLECTION:
1. What did you feel? What emotions
were evoked/expressed in the music?
2. Which style do you prefer? Why?