Beethoven Influence On Romanticism

However, the way Beethoven had composed Pathetique departs fundamentally from that of his predecessor, with an attitude of defiance and resistance. With its extreme difference and high level of energy, it made many of the Viennese listeners shocked and stunned. Beethoven dedicated this piece to Prince Karl von Lichnowsky, who was a huge supporter of Vienna’s musicians and Beethoven. In return for dedicating this piece to him, Beethoven was given a quartet of Italian string instruments and an annual sum of money. In the powerful and impactful Grave introduction, the resistance to the sufferings is exemplified in the contrast between the upward moving melodic and the darkness of the C minor tonality.

His intention in lampooning was for his audience to enjoy the irony and sarcasm of his work while criticizing the foolish view of the upper class. During the time play’s release, many critics wrote about their opinions of the play. Some critics saw his work as a fantasy, others said it was burlesque, but there were also critics who understood Wilde’s purpose for writing this play (Kohl 272). For instance, Norbert Kohl said, “He is made to laugh at the hollow superficiality hidden behind the mask of earnestness, and to mock the rich facade…” (Kohl 272). Khol clearly understood that Wilde’s purpose of writing The Importance of Being Earnest was to publicly and comically criticize the rich.

The social scene in the Jazz Age provides reason for the instability of love, lack of loyalty as a result of socialisation. This contextual period led to a change in the stability of relationships, causing them to change. Fitzgerald portrays this change through the relationship of Tom and Daisy Buchanan. Fitzgerald uses "always" which is highly modal, when tom says "I love Daisy too. Once in a while I… make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her."

His musical, Hamilton, modernizes Common Sense 's wordy view on America: the country is on the brink of chaos because being England 's income creates pointless enemies for America. And through this modernization, Miranda ignites the same spark of revolution in his audiences that Paine did with his pamphlet. England 's interest in America primarily came from its potential as a cash cow. The land provided ample space and resources to make money, which England quickly capitalized on. Thomas Paine confirms this in his counterpoint to England giving protection to America: "That she hath engrossed us is true, and defended the continent at our expense as well as her own, is admitted; and she would have defended Turkey from the same motive, viz., for the sake of trade and dominion" (326).

I thought of him as a very key figure in history because of the Revolutionary War not because of his sabotage of political affairs. This seemed like a negative aspect to me because it made him look bad as a character, or could have changed how people reading this book see him

The stereotype of the relations between young women and men in the majismo movement, – their peculiar characteristic, the spirited nature, and the bohemian attitude, – is the inspiration of the composition. Goya’s works inspired Granado to write the opera and reflect the admiration to the artist’s works. The pianist visualizes Goya’s paintings with the help of the music sensuality. Comparing to the great artist, the musician depicts the milieu not mainly through the folklore or the costume drama solely. He raises the image to the mystery category making the audience create the picture of the past, present, and future.

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is one of the most famous tragic plays written between 1594 and 1595. Romeo and Juliet is a play that portraits the force of authority and power in the face of love and happiness. Many Critics classify this play as a true tragedy because of the way it is created. Aristotle defines tragedy as " an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; … with incidents arousing pity and fear" (Else‏ 224). People often read Romeo and Juliet as just a romantic play, but to be more accurate this play is a real romantic tragedy.

She loves him for what he stands for: privilege, wealth, affluence, social acceptability, class, and the finer things of life. She is an example of why the American Dream is foolish because the things that matter to her happiness are temporary; the things she strives for don’t ultimately lead to true happiness. Additionally, the book portrays Gatsby’s parties, characteristic of the 1920’s, as examples of hollow decadence. The parties were filled with alcohol (which at the time was an illegal substance), dancing, rich

Characters even call out the storm, like when Romeo's cousin says “there's a storm coming” as he sees romeo run off to kill Mercutio This is why Romeo and Juliet is undeniably superior to Twelfth Night, Due to the plot, themes, and symbolism in each play. Romeo and Juliet has better plot structure especially due to the way that cause and effect fits, it has better themes that mean something and tell something, and while Romeo and Juliet has bad symbolism Twelfth Nights symbolism is minimal at best. There is nothing good nor bad but thought makes it so, these are the thoughts that makes Twelfth Night bad, at least compared to Romeo and

Debussy broke the mold so to speak in the 20th century of music by breaking away from the typical German style laid out by composers such as Beethoven as he often explored dreamy and distant sound worlds in an effort to stand out amongst his earlier peers of the classical period. He began to be drawn to the sounds of the pentatonic scales, whole tone scale, and sounds otherwise known in Asia as his music in comparison often contained a rather circular motion which broke away from the formers heroic cadential style of resolution. This breaks his music away as his was more of an ambient and distant much like the impressionist art movement happening at the same time being led by the likes of Monet and Van Gough. The Sunken Cathedral by Debussy exhibits many traits of the new impressionistic forum of 20th century composers as he exhibits many methods to place the listener into a dream-like state using melodic variation and connectivity amongst voice leading in order to achieve a watery type effect. This effect makes the listener feel as if they are floating along with the piece itself as he adds complexities to the music with the slow harmonic variation throughout the piece.

Beethoven soon idolized Napoleon and what the French Revolution stood for, individual freedom. The once repressed Beethoven then began to express his rage and other emotions into his music into many political symphonies like Bonaparte (Erocia), named after Napoleon (Kerman & Tomlinson 225). What was unique about Beethoven’s music was the fact that it was centered around the feelings and spirit of the composer, which was unlike much of the classical music before his time. It was almost as if Beethoven was starting his own revolution. Beethoven’s self-expression music was said to be the start of Romanticism age in music because of how it centered around personal passions, instead of pleasing God or audiences.

Predestination can initiate true love in individuals, which means that fate controls true love and it is inevitable. While some people think that fate has nothing to do with true love, there is evidence to prove that fate has a direct impact in initiating true love. Romeo and Juliet is evidence to the fact that fate can initiate true love because it says, “Some consequence yet hanging in the stars… By some vile forfeit of untimely death.” (Shakespeare 23) This is predestination because Romeo knew that there was a “consequence” in attending the party that ends in his “untimely death,” nevertheless he still goes to it. It just so happens to be that Juliet is attending the same party. Even though something bad will happen to Romeo, he still attends

Hector Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique, movement 5; Songe d’une Nuit du Sabbat(dream of a witches Sabbath) fits into the romantic themes, particularly the sublime and individual. Through an analysis of the score, I will investigate how Berlioz used musical techniques to convey greatness in his work and suggest the themes of romanticism. The idea of the romantic period(1825-1900) was a revolt against classicism, the goal of the period was to be individualistic. Romantic composers relied on their own feelings to compose, in order to encourage predetermined moods in the listener. Berlioz’ lived a troubled life and this was reflected in his compositions through emotion.