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Programmatic Music
- Liszt coined the term
- Music that pulls in outside elements to help tell a story without words
- Composers did this in many ways from instruments to titles to musical themes
- Berlioz included program notes to be read along with the performance of Symphony Fantastique
- Resulted in a debate between the programmatic movement and absolute music that was still referring back to the classical period
Programmatic Music
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- Intro
- They Call it Romantic for a Reason
- Finally Getting Some Emotion
- Programmatic Music: Narrative or Descriptive Content that Attempts to Represent Extra-Musical Concepts without Text
- Uses Referential Elements or References to the World Outside of the Composition
- Franz Liszt Coined the term, But It Originated with Beethoven
- Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony Was an Expression of His Feelings
- Music Governed by a Poetic Idea
- So Why All of a Sudden?
- Arts were Becoming Unified Across Europe
- Particularly the Rise of the Narrative
- Composers Found They Wanted to Tell Stories Through Music Without Text
- Descriptive, Narrative, Evocative
- Used Titles, Instruments, Imitation, Harmony, and Text Painting
- Berlioz
- Symphony Fantastique: 1830
- Narrative Work Associated with a Text
- Subtitled: An Episode in the Life of an Artist
- Provided an Autobiographical Program at the Work's Premiere, Considering the text an Essential Part of the Work
- Idee Fixe: Represented the Motive That Appears Throughout the Piece
- Listening to Symphony Fantastique
- Liszt and Wagner
- Liszt Invented the Symphonic Poem: One-Movement Piece for a Symphony Orchestra
- Wagner: Opera
- Wagner Came Up With the Leitmotif
- Leitmotif: Using Music Material to Represent People, Places, Events, Emotions, Etc.
- Some Famous Leitmotifs Through the Ages
- Review






























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