Area of Study 4: Descriptive MusicProgramme Music (Symphonic music from 1820 onwards)

Background…

•Baroque Period (c1600-1750)•Classical Period (c1750-1820s)•Romantic Period (c1820s-1900ish)

Baroque Orchestra (small)

Classical Orchestra (bit bigger)

Romantic Symphony Orchestra

Identify the order of composition•Extract 1•Extract 2•Extract 3

Programme Music – what is it?

•Music has been inspired by a stimulus, be it a painting, story, novel, poem, emotion etc

•Usually written to PORTRAY the stimulus•Often written for the symphony orchestra

How do composers create these programmatic sounds?•Melody•Pitch•Tempo•Dynamics•Textures•Instrumentation

•Now move to the word document which has boxes related to Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet