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Romanticism. What words best describe the music?. Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Hebrides Overture. Fingal’s Cave . Romanticism. A cultural movement of the nineteenth century Characterized by emphasizing the emotional over the rational, the imagination over reason - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Romanticism
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What words best describe the music?
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Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Hebrides Overture Fingal’s Cave
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Romanticism
• A cultural movement of the nineteenth century
• Characterized by emphasizing the emotional over the rational, the imagination over reason
• Emphasis on the individual• Exploration of nature• Nostalgia for past times
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Inspiration
• Emphasized individual as inspired creator rather than technical master
• Importance of spontaneity, being in the moment, rather than precision, perfection• Sources of inspiration?
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Opium
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NatureCasper David Friedrich
(1774-1840)Wanderer above a Sea of Fog
(1817-1818)• In response to scientific
revolution and industrial revolution
• Problematized deistic model of the world
• Nature as God’s artistic creation
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Neo-classical Landscapes
Claude Lorrain (ca 1604-1682)View of La Crescenza (1648-1650)
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Romantic LandscapesThomas Cole (1801-1848)
Romantic Landscape with Ruined Tower (1832-1836)
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NostalgiaSir Francis Dicksee (1853-1928)
La Belle Dame sans Merci
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John William Waterhouse (1849-1917)
Juliet (1898)
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"A Sick Child brought into the Temple of Aesculapius” (1877)
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
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Kubla Khan (1797-1816)Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree :Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to manDown to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile groundWith walls and towers were girdled round :
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
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But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slantedDown the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
A savage place ! as holy and enchantedAs e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover !And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,A mighty fountain momently was forced :Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst
Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail :
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and everIt flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motionThrough wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean :
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war !
The shadow of the dome of pleasureFloated midway on the waves ;
Where was heard the mingled measureFrom the fountain and the caves.
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It was a miracle of rare device,A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of
ice !
A damsel with a dulcimerIn a vision once I saw :
It was an Abyssinian maid,And on her dulcimer she played,
Singing of Mount Abora.Could I revive within meHer symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long,I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
Weave a circle round him thrice,And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,And drunk the milk of Paradise.
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Romanticism and Politics
• Utopian• Romantic nationalism• Nationhood based on similarities in language
and culture• Development of national folklore studies;
national epics found• Developed in response to imperial/monarchial
rule
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Eugene DelacroixLiberty Leading the People (1830)