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129" illustrates this principle. There are three movements of the piece, all of which are quite distinct, but there are none of the showy, distinctive shifts as distinguished the Hayden works. The music is lyric and tonal in quality like the Hayden, but there is a searching, introspective quality that the Hayden lacks. As is evident in the title, the voice of the cello dominates the work, and the focus on the string instruments gives the work a kind of delicacy and nuance which forces the listener to literally hang on to every note. At times, the instruments have almost a human quality, as they engage in a back-and-forth exchange or conversation throughout the piece, with the cello providing the rhythm and the other instruments exploring the themes introduced by the cello soloist.
The Classical and Romantic era works were in stark contrast to the output of the contemporary Turkish composer U.C. Erkin. Erkin's work, simply entitled Symphony...
1 was less tuneful than either of the previous composers' pieces and seemed more designed to unsettle than entertain the listener. It was discordant, unharmonious and halting in places and was effective in conveying a foreboding mood. Erkin's work demonstrates how a musical composition does not necessarily have to be classically beautiful to be moving, and his innovations with the symphonic form were interesting to compare with the more traditional musical renderings of Hayden and Schumann.
When designing a program of classical music, quite often it is common to select a particular composer or theme to showcase. However, this concert shows how selecting very different composers can be equally instructive. Over the course of the evening I was not only able to enjoy the music; I was also able to take delight in the history lesson I received in terms of the evolution of Western attitudes to the proper role of music in expressing emotions
They brought a new sense of "free experimentation" to composition, while advancing realistic techniques that emphasized the use of "local color" in literature. This style in the literary world helps to define the Romantic Era and has shaped writing to this day. Science: Of equal importance to literary pursuits during the Romantic era were achievements in science. By the 1830's, activity in science and technology was rapidly increasing and becoming a source
Nature is the vehicle that leads him to awareness on a physical and emotional plane, expressed when he realizes that "each faculty of sense... keep[s] the heart/Awake to Love and Beauty" (62-3). Here we see that the poet is open to whatever his experience with nature will teach him. Another poet that demonstrates the mood and tone of the Romantic era is Percy Shelley. In "Ode to the West Wind,"
Music-Romantic Period 'ROMANTICISM' is a concept that can be easily recognized but is probably just as difficult to define. Like all other movements, Romanticism also emerged as a reaction to general idea, practices, social norms and political problems of the time. The general concept of romanticism sees music as an expression of intimate and sublime emotions. The period that can be categorized as romantic varies but generally covers the decades from
life of a "free artist" during the romantic period and with the artist's life in earlier periods The life of a "free artist" during the early 19th century Romantic period of literature, art and music was conceptualized in terms of the artist as a free person, an artist outside of society, often beset upon by his or her inner demons. In contrast, the Classical period that immediately preceded the Romantic
Romantic Period, writers shared an appreciation for nature. Capturing the essence of enjoying nature in writing became of utmost importance for these writers as they focused on emotion and imagination to help them create pleasing literature. We can see these characteristics in Percy Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind," John Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale," and William Wordsworth's "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey." These poets capture
Romantic Era The Romantic period and the attendant rise of the novel in England as the preeminent literary form saw the emergence of the first truly popular literature, and with it denunciations of the degradation of culture at the hands of frivolous entertainments and occupations. Fretting critics lamented the idea that the fashion for new and exciting works of literature was crowding out more "important" texts, and the fashionability of knowledge