SUBJECT: MAPEH MUSIC - Characteristics of Romantic period music -
1. Individuality of style – music often was so idiosyncratic that listeners could identify the composer easily.

2. Expressive aims and subjects – themes were flamboyance, intimacy, longing, and melancholy

3. Nationalism and Exoticism – composers used folk songs, dances, legends for nationalism
Exoticism was the outgrowth of nationalism to other cultures and attracted people by things remote, picturesque and mysterious

4. Program Music – narrative and descriptive kind that is intended to express a story or images that depict the theme and scenes in a literary text.
Ex. The soundtrack of the motion picture, Titanic

5. Expressive Tone color – symphonies were much larger and had more instruments.
Piano became an important instrument . Instrument added to orchestra include new percussion, horns, and bass clarinet.

6. Colorful harmony – unstable harmonies that create an unresolved sense of yearning or mystery

7. Expanded range of dynamics, pitch, and tempo
ff and pp turned into fff and ppp
Piano (p) quiet Forte (f) loud

ACTIVITY : describe the characteristics of andante con moto based on what we have discussed. (help plss:>>)

Read the excerpt from julius caesar, act 1, scene 1. marullus. wherefore rejoice? what conquest brings he home? what tributaries follow him to rome to grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? you blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless35 things! o, you hard hearts, you cruel men of rome, knew you not pompey? many a time and oft have you climbed up to walls and battlements, to towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, your infants in your arms, and there have sat40 the livelong day, with patient expectation, to see great pompey pass the streets of rome. which summary of the passage is the best? marullus asks a lot of questions, such as, “why celebrate? what has caesar done? who is following him to rome? don’t you remember pompey? ” then he says that everyone is cruel because they do not remember pompey. they forget how they praised him and would climb to the highest places, carrying their children, just to catch a glimpse of him. marullus regrets that the people are celebrating caesar and is insulted that they forgot how they used to praise pompey. marullus thinks that the people should celebrate caesar the way they used to celebrate pompey, and that they should be in awe of caesar’s greatness. marullus remembers how the people climbed walls, battlements, towers, windows, and even chimney tops to see the great pompey.