ROMANTIC ERA
1850-1920 C.E
By: Nathan Wells
ARTISTIC FREEDOM
Dissonance
Nationalism
 A love for ones country
 An unpleasant effect
 Something for music that has
 Something not put together
a meaning.
properly.
Artistic Freedom with nationalism and dissonance is connected Because
you do something that has a meaning, and not yet put together.
ROMANTIC ERA
INVENTIONS
1840- First electric light bulb.
1876- Bell invents the
telephone.
1877- Edison invents the
phonograph, patented in 1878.
1883- automobile motor
patented by Daimler.
GERMAN POLITICS
 Europe is in charge of
*music is clearly Romantic in
Germans.
style and feeling.
 one could divide the main
*Composers are d definite with
part of the Romantic era into
pushing boundaries.
two schools of composers.
WARS
 Civil war is a fight against
culture and society or nationality
over political power.
 It was caused by the growing
economic power of to the south
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
 Music evolves from the society
which its created.
 For example the improvements
 The social developments was the
rise of middle class music.
 Romantic composer did not feel
constrained by form. Breaking through
to the machines in the industrial
boundaries was now an honorable goal
revolution contributed to the
shared by the scientist, the inventor,
improvements in the workings of
and the political liberator. Music was no
the instruments.
longer universal; it was deeply personal
and sometimes nationalistic.
SOURCES
The music of the romantic era
background