This paper will discuss the life and work of the Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky in terms of his relationship to the Romantic movement in music. Tchaikovsky was born in 1840 in the town of Votinsk in Russia. Although he learned to play the piano as a child‚ his family wanted him to pursue a career as a lawyer. For this reason‚ Tchaikovsky began attending the St. Petersburg School of Jurisprudence at the age of 10‚ and by the age of 19 he obtained a position as clerk in the Ministry of
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Everyone in this society has his or her own definition of the word “romantic.” The word gives off the notion of “sentiment and sentimentality‚ a visionary or idealistic lack of reality. It connotes fantasy and fiction. It has been associated with different times and with distant places: the island of Bali‚ the world of the Arabian Nights‚ the age of the troubadours and even Manhattan.”(Kreis) Romanticism is used all over the world as it relates to many different things. From advertisements in
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Seven: Text Questions Review Questions 1.What is nationalism? How did this impact the music of the Romantic period? Nationalism began to emerge in the nineteenth century between nations and groups‚ it was the rise of a strong identification with a particular political group‚ sometimes an ethnic group. It had an impact or affected the composers in many ways‚ composers showed this was basing their music on the songs and dances of their people‚ they also composers wrote dramatic works based on
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The Romantic era was a period of great change and emancipation. While the Classical era had strict laws of balance and restraint‚ the Romantic era moved away from that by allowing artistic freedom‚ experimentation‚ and creativity. The music of this time period was very expressive‚ and melody became the dominant feature. Composers even used this expressive means to display nationalism . This became a driving force in the late Romantic period‚ as composers used elements of folk music to express their
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Characteristics of the Romantic Period in William Wordsworth’s poem “Tintern Abbey.” Tintern Abbey is a poem written by William Wordsworth‚ a British romantic poet born in 1770 and died in 1850. The full title of this poem is “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey‚ on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour. July 13‚ 1798.” (p. 190) The poem evokes nature‚ memory and basically all the characteristics of the romantic period. Throughout Wordsworth’s work nature
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The Romantic Era Have you ever heard of the word romance? Love is the 980th most commonly used word in the English language‚ which connects to the word romance‚ so there is a very good likelihood that you have. The real question‚ however‚ is do you really know what romance means? Romance has several different meanings and the Romantic Era encompasses them all. Despite the fact that the Romantic Era was a hundred years‚ the Romantics contributed so many things‚ some of those being romance‚ the
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Notes: • The French Revolution and Industrial Revolution had an important influence on the fictional and nonfictional writing of the Romantic period‚ inspiring writers to address themes of democracy and human rights and to consider the function of revolution as apocalyptic change. • Romantic poets presented a theory of poetry in direct opposition to representative eighteenth-century theories of poetry as imitative of human life and nature by suggesting that poetic inspiration was located
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Romantic Sonnet The Romantic sonnet holds in its topics the ideals of the time period‚ concentrating on emotion‚ nature‚ and the expression of "nothing." The Romantic era was one that focused on the commonality of humankind and‚ while using emotion and nature‚ the poets and their works shed light on people’s universal natures. In Charlotte Smith’s "Sonnet XII - Written on the Sea Shore‚" the speaker of the poem embodies two important aspects of Romantic work in relating his or her personal feelings
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15 points about romantic poetry 1) Romantic poetry was written during the period of Romanticism‚ which was in the late 1700s in Western Europe. 2) Romanticism was a movement that strongly emphasized on emotion and was against the norms of the “Age of Enlightenment”. 3) Romantic poets are known for their vivid and colorful language‚ and for their highly elevated ideas and themes. 4) The “Big six” poets of Romantic poetry are: William Blake‚ William Wordsworth‚ Samuel Coleridge
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Intro to The Romantic Period At the turn of the century‚ fired by ideas of personal and political liberty and of the energy and sublimity of the natural world‚ artists and intellectuals sought to break the bonds of 18th-century convention. Although the works of Jean Jacques Rousseau and William Godwin had great influence‚ the French Revolution and its aftermath had the strongest impact of all. In England initial support for the Revolution was primarily utopian and idealist‚ and when the French failed
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