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Unit XVIII Romantic Program Music
The painter turns a poem into a painting the
musician sets a picture. Robert Schumann
Schumann Die Soldatenbraut
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47. The Nature of Program Music

• Program music vs. absolute music

Brahms Symphony No. 1, IV
Berlioz Witches Sabbath
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Varieties of Program Music

• Four main types of program music
• Concert overture
• Incidental music
• Program symphony
• Symphonic poem / tone poem

Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Nights Dream
Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, IV
Smetana The Moldau
Tchaikovsky
Mendelssohn
Berlioz
Smetana
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49. Berlioz and the Program Symphony

• Hector Berlioz (18031869)
• French composer and conductor
• Paris and young France
• Beethoven and Shakespeare
• Harriet Smithson
• Prix de Rome

Harriet Smithson
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Berliozs Music

• Favored program music
• Instrumental music program symphonies, concert
  overtures
• Vocal music operas, sacred works
• Huge forces
• Orchestration
• The creator of the modern orchestra

Generally speaking, my style is very bold the
prevailing characteristics of my music are
passionate expression, intense ardor, rhythmical
animations, and unexpected turns. Hector
Berlioz
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Berlioz Symphonie fantastique

• Program symphony
• Based on his personal life

To render my works properly requires a
combination of extreme precision and irresistible
verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy
tenderness, and an almost morbid
melancholy. Hector Berlioz
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Berlioz Symphonie fantastique (Listening Guide)
Listening Guide PDF

• 5 movements- idée fixe
• I. Reveries, Passions
• II. A Ball
• III. Scene in the Fields
• IV. March to the Scaffold
• Guillotine
• V. Dream of a Witches Sabbath
• Dies irae

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51. Musical Nationalism

• Inclusion of folk dance
• Reference to folklore or peasant life
• Programs national hero, historic event, scenic
  beauty of land
• Censorship
• Powerful symbolism

Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 2
Smetana Furiant
Smetana The Moldau
Liszt
Smetana
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A Czech Nationalist Bedrich Smetana (18241884)

• Bohemian composer
• Early music studies in Prague
• Cycle of symphonic poems My Country (Má vlast)
• Health declined (syphilis), grew deaf

Smetana Furiant from The Bartered Bride
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Smetana The Moldau (Listening Guide)

• Second of the symphonic poems from My Country
• River Moldau (Vlatava)
• Music suggests scenes along the shore of the
  river

Smetana The Moldau (ending)
Listening Guide PDF
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Other Nationalists

• Spain
• Isaac Albeniz
• Enrique Granados
• Manuel de Falla

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Other Nationalists

• England
• Edward Elgar
• Frederick Delius

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Other Nationalists
Antonin Dvorák, Czech
Dvorák Symphony No. 9 in e
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Other Nationalists
Edvard Grieg, Norway
Grieg Peer Gynt Suite
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Other Nationalists
Jean Sibelius, Finland
Sibelius Finlandia
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Other Nationalists

• Russia
• Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
• The Mighty Five
• Mily Balakirev
• Alexander Borodin
• Cesar Cui
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Modest Musorgsky

Borodin Polovetsian Dances
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Other Nationalists

• Russia
• Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
• The Mighty Five
• Mily Balakirev
• Alexander Borodin
• Cesar Cui
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• Modest Musorgsky

Jean Sibelius, Finland
Edvard Grieg, Norway
Antonin Dvorák, Czech

• Spain
• Isaac Albeniz
• Enrique Granados
• Manuel de Falla

• England
• Edward Elgar
• Frederick Delius

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