3 15 Music and the Human Experience with Professor Kattari Extra credit add 5 classical songs and movie autobiography report due March 31 Piano in Romantic Era Piano was widespread now for amateurs especially females Piano genres 1830s 1850s Short instrumental piano miniatures o Etudes technical songs Chopin made etudes into songs o Preludes use recurring motive o Impromptu seems improvised o Romance lyrical and tender o Character piece expresses a scientific mood character story programmatic Robert Schumann Dreaming Clara Schumann Nocturne Chopin s Mazurka in F m Minute Waltz o Dance inspired pieces mazurkas polonaises waltzes polkas o Lied German art songs with accompaniment Usually set to Romantic Poetry o Multi movement chamber and orchestral genres Can be amateurish or technically demanding o Professional solo piano concerts their own compositions and classics or amateurs at home Romantic Piano music composers Robert and Clara Schumann o German o Love affair expressed through music o Robert composer music critic o Clara composer performer o Robert s condition detiorated because of bipolarism and alcoholism In class example Robert Schumann Carnaval 1834 1835 o Cycle of 20 character pieces of a masquerade at the Carnaval Eusebius his calm alter ego Florestan fiery alter ego Chiarina Clara Chopin Paganini and other characters Frederic Chopin o Poland Bohemian community in Paris o Composed exclusively idiomatically for the piano o Elevated etude from practice to concert music o Sickly died of TB
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