LIT 212R Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Romantic Music, Johann Gottfried Herder, Wilhelm Grimm
25 Apr 2018
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Was more widespread both in its origins & influence: 1770s, germany, england, 1820s, europe, france, traveled quickly to western hemisphere, london, boston, mexico city, tokyo, vladivostok, oslo, origins of folklore: Jakob & wilhelm grimm collected popular fairy tales: scholar johann gottfried von herder studied folk songs. Joseph addison & richard steele (england) treated old ballads as high poetry: set one aspect of romanticism: Belief that products of uncultivated popular imagination could equal or even surpass those of educated court poets & composers who previously monopolized attentions of scholars & connoisseurs: origins of popular art: 17th & 18th century: learned allusions, complexity & grandiosity were prized, new romantic taste favored simplicity & naturalness. Germany: idea of common volk (people) dominated a good portion of thinking about the arts, scholars celebrated anonymous masses over known artists, nationalism: French romantic paintings were full of themes relating to tumultuous political events of the period. Romantic music often draws inspiration from national folk musics.
