 Friday, Monday
and Tuesday, 19-23 – Crash
 Wednesday, 24 – Reflection (Sub)
 Thursday and Friday, 25-26 – Final
 Monday and Tuesday, 29-30 – Chapter 9
Sections 3 and 4 – Notes Only
 Wednesday - Friday, 1-3 (Final time will be
given later) – American History X
 Monday – Thursday, 6-9 – End of course
testing
Monday, 22 – Romantic Music ppt.
 Tuesday, 23 – Music and Art Review
 Wednesday, 24 – Romantic/Realism Drama &
Dance worksheet with Sub
 Thursday & Friday, 25&26 – Final
 Monday, 29 – Binder Check
 Tuesday, 30 – Test
 Wednesday, 1 – Make-up test
 Thursday & Friday, 2&3 – Final
 Monday-Thursday, 6-9 – End of course testing

Tchaikovsky and Wagner
 Very
diff. from Neoclassical – emotion,
adventure, and imagination
 Beethoven inspired composers to become
self-supported
 Opera very popular
 Soft/dreamy music accomplished by:
• Chromatic scale – moving in half steps
• Dissonance – harsh sounds to the ear
• Modulations – change from one key to another
 Composers
focused on melodies and
themes
 Cycle – complete story told w/ several
related songs
 Improved range power of
piano/improvements to orchestral
instruments
Studied music as a child
 At 21 entered the St.
Petersburg
Conservatory/ studied
composition
 Graduated and taught
theory and composition
at Moscow Conservatory

 Mme. Von
Meck – contributions allowed
him to dedicate himself to his music
 Best remembered for his ballets:
Nutcracker, Swan Lake and Sleeping
Beauty
 Performed 6th symphony (Pathetique) as
the opening concert for Carnegie Hall in
1891 – died a few days later
Symphony #6 In B Minor, Op. 74, "Pathétique"
 Symphony #5 In E Minor, Op. 64 – Finale
 Symphony #2 In C Minor, Op. 17, "Little Russian"
– Finale
 The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71 - Russian Dance
 Sleeping Beauty Suite, Op. 66A
 Swan Lake Suite, Op. 20
 1812 Overture, Op. 49

 Born
in a theatrical
family
 Began composing at
17
 Chorus master for
several theatres
 Built his own theatre
(Das Festspielhaus) in
1872
 Most
significant works – Tristan and Isolde
and Ring Cycle (covers German and
Scandinavian mythology – over 16 hrs.)
 Leitmotif – assigning short melodies to
people or ideas in operas (used in many
20th century films)
 Adolf Hitler well known admirer of Wagner
and adopted much of his work for the Nazi
party
 Prelude
to Die Meistersinger von
Nürnberg
 Overture to Tannhäuser
 The Ride of the Valkyries
 Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin
 Tristan and Isolde: Prelude to Act 1
 3-4
descriptive sentences