MUS 1740 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Ostinato, Clara Schumann, Music Theory
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Music after beethoven: romanticism: the term romantic was adopted by the romantics themselves, first found in literature, earliest romantic composers in 1820s, thanks to beethoven ppl had become highly aware of music as a major art. Hailed as philosophical father of the french revolution. Provided romantics with ideal of individual and political freedom and fulfillment. Listz espoused a half communistic half religious movement that took hold in french intellectual circles. Richard wagner thrown out of germany for speeches from revolutionary barricades in dresden. Maria con weber"s opera der freischutz ( the magic bullet: spooky music by verdi for macbeth, wagner for a ghost ship in the flying dutchman, dream of a witches sabbath by hector berlioz compares with fuseli"s. Nightmare: music and other arts, shakespearean, individualist in outlook, emotive, contemptuous of handed down conventions-general traits of romantic art, efforts made to blend arts together.
