Sociology Monday – Wednesday – LGO 9 – Due

Wednesday end of class (get binders ready too)

Thursday – Review LGO – Test card – Chapter 9 Binder check

Friday – Chapter 9 Test Monday – On demand testing Tuesday – No school Wednesday – Chapter 9 make-up tests Thursday – May 22 – Collect Books – Make-

up work

Humanities Thursday – Romantic music examples Friday – US History EOC/Make-up work Monday – On Demand Testing Tuesday – No School Wednesday – Romantic/Realism Music and art

review Thursday – Romantic/Realism Identification test Friday – Romantic/Realism Make-up Identification

test Monday – No School

Romantic MusicTchaikovsky and Wagner

General Info Very diff. from Neoclassical – emotion,

adventure, and imagination Beethoven inspired composers to become self-

supported Opera very popular Soft/dreamy music accomplished by:

• Chromatic scale – moving in half steps• Dissonance – harsh sounds to the ear• Modulations – change from one key to another

General cont. Composers focused on melodies and

themes Cycle – complete story told w/ several

related songs Improved range power of

piano/improvements to orchestral instruments

Tchaikovsky Studied music as a child At 21 entered the St.

Petersburg Conservatory/ studied composition

Graduated and taught theory and composition at Moscow Conservatory

Tchaikovsky cont. Mme. Von Meck – contributions allowed

him to dedicate himself to his music Best remembered for his ballets:

Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty

Performed 6th symphony (Pathetique) as the opening concert for Carnegie Hall in 1891 – died a few days later

Tchaikovsky’s Music Symphony #6, "Pathétique" Symphony #5 – Finale Symphony #2, "Little Russian" – Finale The Nutcracker – Trepak – (Russian Dance) The Nutcracker – Waltz of the Flowers Sleeping Beauty – Panorama Sleeping Beauty – Pas de Deux Swan Lake – Introduction to Act II Swan Lake – Danse des Cygnes 1812 Overture

Wagner Born in a theatrical

family Began composing at

17 Chorus master for

several theatres Built his own theatre

(Das Festspielhaus) in 1872

Wagner Cont. Most significant works – Tristan and Isolde and

Ring Cycle (covers German and Scandinavian mythology – over 16 hrs.)

Leitmotif – assigning short melodies to people or ideas in operas (used in many 20th century films)

Adolf Hitler well known admirer of Wagner and adopted much of his work for the Nazi party

Wagner Music Prelude to Die Meistersinger von

Nürnberg Overture to Tannhäuser The Ride of the Valkyries Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin Tristan and Isolde: Prelude to Act 1

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