This discussion covers the lessons of grade9 students in music for the IV quarter.

1. VOCAL MUSIC
OF THE
ROMANTIC PERIODMs. Jhunima D. Santiago

2. • Composers interpret poems,mood,atmosphere and
imagery intomusic.
• Romantic artists found inspiration in landscapes.
• Their subjects were traditionalmyths,legendsand
folklore usually dealing with the supernatural,
grotesque,and less ordinary.
VOCAL MUSIC OF THE
ROMANTIC PERIOD

3. • Vocal music in this period require singers to perform a
greater range of tone color, dynamics and pitch.
• Operabecame an important source of musical
expressions.
• The birth of the operahouses came.
VOCAL MUSIC OF THE
ROMANTIC PERIOD

4. COMPOSERS OF VOCAL
DURING
ROMANTIC PERIOD

5. Franz Peter
Schubert
• Schubert was born on the 31st of
January 1797 in
Himmelpfortgrund,Austria.
• The proper name for Franz
Schubert songs is lieder, which is
the German word for song.
• He is considered the last of the
classical composers and one of
the first romantic ones.

6. Franz Peter Schubert
• His famous vocal music works/ Lieder were:
“Gretchenam Spinnrade”,“Erlkonig”, “Ellens Gesang III”
(“Ave Maria”) and “Schwanengesang” (“Swan Song”).
• He also wrote piano pieces, string quartets, operetta
and the Symphony No.8 in B minor (“Unfinished
Symphony”)
• He died in 1828 in Vienna, Austria at 31.

7. Giuseppe Verdi
• Verdi was born in Parma, Italy
on October 9, 1813.
• He studied in Busseto and
later went to Milan where his
first opera “Oberto”was
performed in La Scala, the
most important opera house
at the time.

8. Giuseppe Verdi
• Almost all of his works are serious love story with
unhappy ending.
• His final opera ends with “Allthe world’s a joke.”
• His famous works are La Traviata, Rigoletto,Falstaff,
OtelloandAida were he wrote for the opening of the
Suez Canal.
• Expressive vocal melody is the soul of a Verdi opera.
• He died in Milan, Italy on January 27,1901.

9. Giacomo Puccini
• Giacomo Puccini was born in
a poor family on December 22,
1858 in Lucca, Italy.
• He studied at the
Milan Conservatory.

10. • He belonged to a group of composers who
stressed realism, therefore, he drew material from
everyday life, rejecting heroic themes from
mythology and history.
• Puccini’sfamous operas were: “La Boheme”, “Tosca”,
“Madame Butterfly”, and “Turandot”.
Giacomo Puccini

11. Wilhelm Richard Wagner
• Wilhelm Richard Wagner was
born in Leipzig, Germany on
May 22, 1813.
• He was very much
inspired by Ludwig van
Beethoven.

12. Wilhelm Richard Wagner
• Wagner introduced new ideas in harmony and in
form, including extremes of chromaticism.
• He was an advocate of a new form of opera which he
called “music drama” where musical and dramatic
elements were fused together.
• The expressiveness is aided by the use of “leitmotifs”
or musical sequences standing for a particular
character/plot element.

13. • His famous works are; Tristan and Isolde, Die Walkure,
Die Meistersinger, Tannhauserand Parsifal.
• His work would later influence modern film scores,
including those of the Harry Potter and Lord ofthe
Rings film series.
• Wagner died of a heart attack on February 13,1883 at
age of 69.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner

14. Georges Bizet
• registered with the legal
name Alexandre-Cesar-
Leopold Bizet, but was
baptized Georges Bizet

15. Georges Bizet
• He was born October 25, 1838 in Paris, France.
• Bizet became famous for his operas.
• His most famous opera is “Carmen”.
• Bizet died (June 3, 1875). He was only36.

16. ROMANTIC OPERA
ROMANTIC PERIOD

17. OPERA
■ became increasingly popular during the
Romantic period.
■ It is a musical composition having all or most of its
text set to music with arias, recitative, choruses,
duets, trios, etc. sung to orchestral accompaniment.
■ The opera is usually characterized by the elaborate
costumes, scenery and choreography.

18. COMPONENTS
of OPERA

19. Components
• the texts of an opera.
• Librettist and the composer work
closely together to tell the story.
libretto

20. • the book that the composer and librettist
put together.
• has all the musical notes, words and ideas
to help the performers tell the story.
• Often, there are operas with overtures,
preludes, prologues, several acts, finales
and postludes.
Score
Components

21. • Declamatory singing, used in the prose parts and
dialogue ofopera.
• Different roles in operas are created taking into
account different types of voices.
• Each role requires a different type of singer, not only
able to sing a given vocal range but also with certain
voice characteristics, color and power.
Recitative
Components

22. Aria
Components
• an air or solo singing part that the public
will remember best when leaving the
opera house.
• Properly and well sung, a beautiful aria
can bring an audience to its feet and
decide the fate of anentire opera.

23. VOICE
CLASSIFICATIONS

24. For Male Voices
1. Tenor – Highest male voice
2. Baritone– middle male voice
– it lies between Bass and Tenor
– common male voice
3. Bass – lowest male voice

25. For Female Voices
1. Soprano– highest female voice
2. Mezzo Soprano – most common female
voice; strong middle voice, tone is darker or
deeper than the soprano
3. Contralto – lowest female voice and
most unique among female

26. MUSICAL
TERMS

27. • one or more singers
performing without
instrumental accompaniment
A Capella

28. • Singing style
Cantabille

29. Head, the beginning
Capo

30. Closing section
appended to a
movement or song.
Coda

31. sweetly
Dolce

32. Aweaker and more
airyvoice usually in
the higher pitch
ranges.
Falsetto

33. Sliding quickly
between two notes.
Glissando

34. Parts ofsinging voice
where register
transition occur
Passagio

35. Slight speeding up or
slowing down of the
tempo of a piece at the
discretion of the soloist.
Rubato

36. Most comfortable
singing range of a
singer.
Tessitura

37. Rapidly repeated slight
pitch variation during
a sustained note.
Vibrato