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Republic of the Philippines Department of Education Regional Office IX, Zamboanga Peninsula

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MUSIC Quarter 3 – Module 1: Composers of the Romantic Period

Name of Learner: ______Grade & Section: ______

0 Name of School: ______What I Need To Know

Romantic refers to Western music composed in the late 18th century . Composers and artists believed in letting their imagination and passion are seen through their works. In this module, you will learn about the and strings, piano and of Hector Berlioz, , Frederick Chopin, Camille Sain-Saëns, , and Peter Ilyich Tchaickowsky. At the end of the lesson, you as a learner are expected to:  Describes musical elements of given Romantic period pieces. (MU9RO-IIIa-2);  Explains the performance practice (setting, composition, role of composers/performers, and audience) during Romantic Period. (MU9RO-IIIb- h-3); and  Relates to other art forms and its history within the era. (MU9RO-IIIc-h-7).

What I know

Read the questions carefully and choose the correct answer. 1. Frederick Chopin wrote most of his music for the following instrument. a. Violin b. c. Piano d. 2. What does the term “Nationalism” means? a. Being patriotic b. Having a strong feeling for one’s nation c. Pride in one’s own composition d. Pride for another country or culture 3. Name the composer who bridged the Classical Period to the Romantic Period. a. Bach b. Bruckner c. Berlioz d. Beethoven 4. Which of these is not a characteristic of the romantic period? a. A freedom in writing and designing an intense personal expression of self-emotion b. Has a rich variety of piece types c. Has a shape and unity of the theme d. The textures are more expressive e. None of the above 5. Which one of the following is not a type of Program music? a. b. c. Concert d. Incidental music

What’s In A. Guess Who?

Instructions: Identify the names of the composers. Choose your answer from the box below.

1 Franz Liszt Frederick Chopin Camille Sain-Saëns Hector Berlioz Robert Schumann Niccolo Paganini Peter Ilyich Tchaickowsky.

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B. Name that Composer!

3 Instruction: Name the composer who created the given musical pieces. ___1. Ballade ___2. “La Campanella” ___3. “Romeo & Juliet” ___4. ___5. “Abegg ” ___6. 24 Caprices for Solo Violin, OP.1 ___7. “Danse Macabre”

C. Music Match Instruction: Choose the composer of the given music piece from the 2nd column. Write your answer in the box.

MUSIC COMPOSER ANSWER Hector Berlioz Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Niccolo Paganini Frederic Chopin Danse Macabre Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Niccolo Paganini Frederic Chopin Camille Saint-Saëns Ballade Frederic Chopin Hector Berlioz Camille Saint-Saëns Franz Liszt Abegg Variations Niccolo Paganini Franz Liszt Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Robert Schumann La Campanella Camille Saint-Saëns Niccolo Paganini Frederic Chopin Franz Liszt

What’s New Listen and Observe:

1. Play the audio entitled ―” Fantastique.” Visit the link: https://youtu.be/5HgqPpjlH5c 2. Listen and observe the audio on how will you describe the music. 3. Write your observations on the space provided below.

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What Is It

Did you know that the Romantic music refers to Western music entitled “Symphonie Fantastique” was composed by one of the famous composers in the 18th and 19th century? It was created by Hector Berlioz.

Famous Composers of the Romantic Period

VIOLIN AND STRINGS MUSIC

NICCOLO PAGANINI He was born in October 27, 1782 in Genoa, Italy in a family of six children. His musical skills started with playing the mandolin at the age of five. He eventually transferred his training to the violin at the age of seven with different violin professors in Italy. His violin teachers could not keep up with the progress of his violin skills that he kept on transferring from one violin teacher to another. This led him to adopt all his teachers’ influences in playing the violin.

Paganini became the most famous violin virtuoso in the world. However, together with his fame came the rumors about his amazing violin skills that was said to be a gift from the devil and that he sold his soul in exchange for those skills. He was also rumored to have a problem with women and gambling. His compositions inspired a lot of other composers such as Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann. Some Works of Niccolo Paganini:  “La Campanella”  24 Caprices for Solo Violin, Op. 1  Concerto No. 1 in Eb. Op. 6  15 Quartets for Guitar and Strings Trio  The Carnival of Venice

PIANO MUSIC

5 FREDERIC CHOPIN Frederic Chopin was known as the “Poet of the Piano”. He was born on March 1,1810 in Zelazowa, Poland. Frederic Chopin began to play piano at age 4. He composed polonaise at the age of 7. He studied piano at Conservatory under Wilhelm Würfel and most of his music was influenced by folk music. He finished his formal education at the higher school in 1829 and soon traveled to Europe giving concerts in places such as Vienna, Munich, , and London. He wrote almost exclusively for piano. He made extensive use of piano pedal in most of his compositions.

Some of his music is characterized by its beautiful tone, rhythmic flexibility, grace and elegance. Some of his compositions like and polonaise express his love for Poland. Chopin is famous for the following:  BALLADE- a verse form or narrative that is set to music  ETUDE –a piece composed for the development of a specific technique.  - a Polish dance in triple time signature  NOCTURNE - an instrumental composition of a pensive, dreamy mood, for the piano  POLONAISE – a slow Polish dance in triple time that consists of a march or procession  PRELUDE - a short piece of music that can be used as a preface, and introduction to another work or may stand on its own  WALTZ – a German dance in triple meter  IMPROMPTU–a short free-form musical composition usually for a solo instrument, like the piano  SCHERZO - a musical movement of playful character, typically in ABA form  SONATA - composition for one or more solo instruments usually consisting of three or four independent movements varying in key, mood, and tempo

2. FRANZ LISZT The best word that describes the works of Franz Liszt is “virtuosity”. He was known as the virtuoso pianist, a composer and the busiest musician during the romantic era. He played and studied in Vienna and Paris while performing in concerts in the rest of Europe. Liszt was born in the village Doborjan, Hungary. He displayed remarkable talent at a young age and easily understood sight reading. His father was his first teacher at age six. A turning point came when, in his early twenties, Liszt heard the virtuoso violinist Niccolo Paganini perform so he decided to dedicate himself in becoming a virtuoso pianist.

6 He was known for his where he translated great literary works into musical compositions. He also made piano transcriptions of and famous . Many of his piano compositions are technically challenging pieces. He was also known with his generosity in sharing time and money to the orphans, victim of disasters and the many students he taught music for free.

Some of Liszt’s Piano works:  La Campanella  Liebestraume No. 3  Liszt's "Hungarian Rhapsodies" were originally written for solo piano, but many were arranged for orchestra or other combinations of instruments. The Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 is the most popular and was the basis for the Tom & Jerry cartoon called the Cat Concerto  Un Sospiro  Sonata in B Minor  of the 9 Beethoven Symphonies  Transcriptions of Lieder by Schubert

3. ROBERT SCHUMANN One of the famous Romantic composers that beautifully combined music and words is Robert Schumann. He was a composer and music critic. Robert Alexander Schumann was born in 1810 in Zwickau. His father wanted him to study law and so in 1821, Schumann went to to study law. However, he spent most of his time with musical and literary circles thru the effort of Friedrich Wieck who took some time to teach Schumann how to play the piano.

It was also this time when he wrote some of his first piano compositions. He eventually convinced his family that he should put aside law in favor of a performing career. In 1830, Schumann went to live with Wieck in Leipzig. He soon developed a problem with his hands, effectively ending his dreams as a pianist.

Piano Works  "Abegg Variations," Opus 1(1830)  "Davidsbundlertanze" ("Dances of the Band of David"), Opus 6 (1837)

7  "Carnaval," Opus 9 (1835) - a portrait of a masked ball attended by his allies and his beloved Clara  "Phantasiestucke," Opus 12 (1837) - a series of mood pieces  Kreisleriana," Opus 16 (1838) - a fantasy on the mad Kapellmeister  "Kinderszenen," Opus 15 (1838) - a poetic series of evocations of a child's world

PROGRAM MUSIC Program music is an instrumental composition that conveys images or scenes to tell a short story without text or lyrics. It entices the imagination of the listener.

COMPOSERS OF PROGRAM MUSIC:

1. HECTOR BERLIOZ Hector Berlioz is a French romantic composer born on December 11, 1803. At his young age, he learned to play guitar and flute but never became skilled in a specific . His father was a physician who sent Hector to medical school but he ended up pursuing a career in music.

One of his famous musical compositions is a five movement symphony called “Symphonie Fantastique”. In this composition which is also known as “Fantastic Symphony”, Berlioz showcased the important features in his composition in creating tone color. He assembled hundreds of musicians to produce a powerful sound. In most of his compositions, he made tone color as the basic part of his musical language.

2. PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY (Pyotr Ilyich Chaykowsky) Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky who was born on May 7, 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia, was known for his music. He first studied law and became a law clerk in St. Petersburg in his twenties. He rebelled and began to study music at the conservatory also in St. Petersburg. As a big fan of Mozart, Tchaikovsky studied composition with and moved to and started teaching at the new conservatory.

He continued his music career in New York despite having marital problems and became famous after composing the musical poem “Fatum” and “Romeo and Juliet”. He composed haunting and used a great deal of folk music in his symphonic works. Unfortunately, there are very few surviving

8 manuscripts written by Tchaikovsky. His fame peaked in the last ten years of his life and later died due to cholera.

Tchaikovsky’s Famous Compositions:   Symphony No. 6 “Pathetique”   Romeo & Juliet   Symphony No. 2  Sleeping Beauty  Piano Concerto No. 1

3. CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS Camille Saint-Saëns was known as a talented musician from an early age. He was born in Paris on October 9, 1835 and started his music through the help of his aunt by teaching him piano lesson when he was only two years old and afterward, he began composing piano piece at age three. He was considered as a composer who creates elegant music, neat, clean, polished and never excessive. One of this is example is “The Swan”. As an organist and one of the best pianists of his time, he sat very still at the piano and played gracefully and cool. Some of the facts during the peak of his career in musician and composer, many beautiful building, churches and instruments were being built in which includes the famous Eiffel Tower.

Best known music of Camille Saint-Saëns:  Carnival of the Animals  Danse Macabre and his Symphony No. 3  The Swan  Over 300 works, unusually in all genres, including  3 operas (Samson and Delilah the only one remembered)  5 Symphonies (best known No3 the Organ Symphony)  3 concertos for violin and orchestra  5 concertos for piano and orchestra  2 concertos for cello and orchestra  organ music  numerous pieces for the piano  approximately 100 songs  chamber music  sacred music including a

What’s More

9 Enhancement Activity! Instruction: Complete the following unfinished sentence.

1. My understanding about the music of the Romantic Period is that… ______

2. I realized that most of instrumental music from the Romantic are… ______

3. The reason why I really appreciate instrumental music from the Romantic Period is because… ______

4. I love listening to the romantic music composition because… ______

What I Have Learned

Make an insight of what you have learned.

ROBERT SCHUMANN ______

10 CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS ______

2. FRANZ LISZT ______

What I Can Do

Musical Concept Rapping!

Procedure:

1. Choose a topic either Violin and Strings Music, Piano Music and Program Music and you will present the report in RAP style. 2. Record a video of your performance and send it to the teacher either offline or online. You can send it through Facebook messenger. 3. Write the script of your concept rapping.

11 Criteria for Grading: 1. Originality & Appearance………………………………………………………………………40% 2. Content…………………………………………………………………………………………….30% 3. Audio Qualty……………………………..………………………………………………………30% ______100%

Assessment

A. Read each statement or question below carefully and fill in the blank with the correct answer.

______1. Who was known as the virtuoso pianist composer and the busiest musician during the Romantic Era?

______2. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky became famous after composing the musical poem Fatum” and ______?

______3. It is a verse form or narrative that is set to music?

______4. Who was considered as a composer who creates elegant music, neat, clean, polished, never excessive and an example of this is “The Swan”? ______5.Who was the most famous violin virtuoso in the world?

B. Identify the composer of the given music piece. Write your answer on the underlined space provided.

______1. Sonata ______2. The Carnival of Venice ______3. Un Sospiro ______4. Swan Lake ______5. The Swan

12 References: Music and Arts Grade 9, LM, pp.67-87

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