1. The Romantic Period

2. Franz Liszt

3. Frederic Francois Chopin

4. Niccolo Paganini

5. The Romantic Period 1825-1900 Music of deep feeling
Music that told stories
Music that gave performers a chance for exciting playing

6. The Romantic Period 1825-1900 Virtuosity Chopin, Liszt, Paganini
Music that gave performers a chance for exciting playing
Virtuosity
Chopin, Liszt, Paganini

7. The Romantic Period
Music of deep feeling
Nationalism

8. Hungarian Dance #5
by Johannes Brahms

9. Using your iPads ----- Go to bjamusicappreciation.weebly.com.
Click on Links/iPad Nationalism.
The password is 2017music.
Fill in pages 59 and 60 in your notes using the powerpoint link.
Read the Brahms biography and write down a few pertinent facts about him on page 61. DO NOT JUST WRITE 5 WORDS and call it done. Find the main points and get the name of at least one composition. (If you finish Brahms before the hour is over, go on to another of the six composers.)

10. NATIONALISTIC MUSIC Characteristics Things that make music nationalistic
National anthems
Folk songs
Folk stories/folk heroes
Geographical places
Historical events/people
Folk instruments

11. National anthems or patriotic songs
National Emblem March (The Star-Spangled Banner) – USA
1812 Overture (Russian National Hymn) – Russia
Variations on Austria (Austrian National Hymn) – Austria
1812 Overture (La Marseillaise) - France

12. Folk songs The Moldau (Hatikvah) – Bohemia
Farandole (March of the Three Kings) – France
Russian Sailor’s Dance (Yablochko) – Russia

13. Folk stories/folk heroes
William Tell – Switzerland
Till Eulenspiegel – Russia
Peer Gynt – Norway

14. Geographical places The Great Gate of Kiev – Russia
The Moldau – Bohemia
Night on Bald Mountain – Russia
Blue Danube – Austria
The Fountains of Rome - Italy

15. Historical events/people Folk instruments
1812 Overture – Russia
Folk instruments
ukelele – USA (Hawaii)
accordion – Italy
balalaika – Russia
bagpipes – British Isles

16. NATIONALISTIC MUSIC Characteristics
National anthems
Folk songs
Folk stories/folk heroes
Geographical places
Historical events/people
Folk instruments

17. Johannes Brahms

18. JOHANNES BRAHMS Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1833
Died in Vienna, Austria in 1897
Known for his Hungarian Dances (Hungarian Dance #5)

19. Modeste Mussorgsky

20. MODESTE MUSSORGSKY Born in Karevo, Russia in 1839
Died in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1881
One of the “Big Five” group of Russian composers
Wrote A Night on Bald Mountain

21. Antonin Dvorak

22. ANTONIN DVORAK Born in Nelahozeves, Bohemia in 1841
Died in Prague, Bohemia in 1904
Wrote The New World Symphony (Symphony #5 or #9) which is nationalistic music about the United States
Wrote Slavonic Dances about his home country

23. Jean Sibelius

24. JEAN SIBELIUS Born in Tavastehus, Finland in 1865
Died in Jarvenpaa, Finland in 1957
Known as the greatest composer of Finland
Wrote Finlandia to reflect his patriotic zeal and deep love of his homeland
Finlandia contains the melody we now know as “Be Still, My Soul”

25. Bedrich Smetana

26. BEDRICH SMETANA Born in Litomysl, Bohemia in 1824
Died in Prague, Bohemia in 1884
(notes to come later)

27. Edvard Grieg

28. EDVARD GRIEG Born in Bergen, Norway in 1843
Died in Bergen, Norway in 1907
Known as the Voice of Norway
Wrote Peer Gynt