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:>>)

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