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Unit XIX Absolute Forms in the Nineteenth
Century
A symphony must be like the world it must
embrace everything -Gustav Mahler
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52. The Romantic Symphony

• Increased orchestral size
• Lyrical themes, colorful harmonies, expanded
  proportions
• Overall structure as in 18th century
• Movement order varies

Brahms Symphony No. 1
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53. Brahms and the Late Romantic Symphony

• Johannes Brahms (18331897)
• German composer
• Musical family
• Close friends with Roberta and Clara Schumann
• Died at 64

Robert and Clara Schumann
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Brahmss Music
It is not hard to compose, but it is wonderfully
hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the
table. Johannes Brahms

• Traditionalist
• Four symphonies, solo piano and chamber music,
  Lieder
• Romantic tendencies
• Third Symphony Classical and Romantic traits

Brahms Piano Quartet No. 3
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Brahms Symphony No. 3 in F Major (Listening
Guide)

• Written at age 50
• Classical in form, Romantic in tone
• Cyclical structure
• I Conventional sonata-allegro
• Three-note motive (F-Ab-F)
• Frei aber froh (Free but happy)
• Motive permeates the entire symphony
• II Andante, sonata-allegro form
• III Waltz, ternary form
• IV Sonata-allegro

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54. The Romantic Concerto

• The Nature of the Concerto
• Three-movement structure
• Cadenzas
• Virtuosity and the Concerto
• Vehicle for virtuosic display
• Specific soloist

We are so made that we can derive intense
enjoyment only from a contrast. Sigmund
Freud
Brahms Violin Concerto
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Felix Mendelssohnand the Concerto

• Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
• Composer, conductor, pianist
• Sister Fanny
• Preserved tradition of Classical form

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55. The Rise of Classical Composition in America

• European musical tradition
• New England School of composition
• Amy Beach

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Amy Cheney Beach(18671944)

• American composer, educator
• Child prodigy
• Married Henry Harris Aubrey Beach
• Mrs. H. H.A. Beach
• Wrote large-scale and small-scale works
• European tour

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Amy Cheney Beach (18671944)

• Yearly U.S. tours
• Leadership positions
• Music Educators National Conference
• Music Teachers National Association
• Society of American Women Composers
• Influenced by
• Brahms and Wagner
• French Impressionism
• Folk music (Irish, Scottish, English)

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