The document provides information about the Romantic period in music history from 1820-1910. It discusses key features of Romantic music including an increased focus on emotion, imagination, individualism, and freedom of expression. Composers began focusing on personal styles and expressing deeper emotions and ideas in their compositions. Nationalism also grew as an important feature as composers incorporated folk music from their home countries. The period saw changes in compositional forms and growth of orchestras that allowed composers to further explore instrumentation and convey feelings through music.

1. GOOD
AFTERNOON!

2. Franz Joseph Haydn Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart LudwigVan Beethoven
Review:

3. •Compare the life and
music of Haydn, Mozart
and Beethoven.
•In what ways are they the
same?

5. What do you feel when
these emotions are not
expressed???

6. “The Peaceable Kingdom”
by Edward Hicks

7. Historical and Cultural
Background of
Romantic Period

8. MUSIC OFTHE
ROMANTIC PERIOD
1820-1910

9. (Short film that shows the history and culture of the western countries during
the romantic period that can be related to the history of the Philippines during
1820 – 1900)

10. Romantic Period described by
some musicians, composers and
researchers around the world as
a cultural movement that
stressed emotion, imagination,
individualism and freedom of
expression.

11. It was characterized by
expanding the formal structure
within a composition and
making the pieces more
passionate and expressive.

12. Nationalism is one of the main features
of this era.This is evidently shown in
some compositions made by Romantic
composers. One of which is the Polonaise
of Frederic Chopin, a dance composition
for piano which is famous in Poland until
today. In addition, the composers’
focuses mainly on individuality of style
and expressive aims and subjects.

13. Emotions, variety of musical style in
compositions, freedom of expression are only
a few things that characterized the music of
the Romantic period. It was during the heights
of popularity of LudwigVan Beethoven, one of
the great composers during the Classical
period made a great distinction to change the
phase of composing music by bridging the
music from Classical to Romantic era.

14. The culture of extensive music education
in Europe extends from the Classical
period and explored more in this era.
Orchestra grows in number and became
limitless, composers explored
instrumentation and many compositions
were inspired by emotions in addition to a
musical theme

15. There are some facts about
Romantic musical period that
everybody should know.

16. The piano music is in free form such as
fantasy, rhapsody, ballad and nocturne
and program music was expressed in tone
poems and Symphony Fantastique.The
music was used to tell stories and express
ideas. Most of the composers were proud
of their country’s music and often use folk
songs in their works.

17. The music during this period used
forms borrowed from Classical music
and made them bigger longer songs
and more instruments.The themes
they wrote in their composition are
mainly about nature, literature,
history and feelings

19. Group Activity:
(Video clip about works of Romantic Composers)
Relate the video clip to the cultural background of the Romantic period.

20. Since the common purpose of
romantic period is the free expression
of man’s feelings about himself, about
humanity and about the world in which
he lives.

21. Group Activity:
Make a short role play
related to Romantic
period.

22. What did you feel while
doing the role play?

23. Generalization
The romantic period’s basic quality is
emotional subjectivity. Its cultural movement
stressed emotion, imagination and
individualism that pave the way to the
expression of one’s personal feelings through
emotions.

24. Additional Activities For Application or
Remediation
(another video clip about the life and works of romantic composers in relation
to historical and cultural background of romantic period.The students will
analyze it)

25. Assignment
Study the Program
Music of the Romantic
period.