Vocal Music

VOCAL MUSIC
OF
THE ROMANTIC
PERIOD
 Composers interpret poems, mood, atmosphere
and imagery into music.
 Romantic artists found inspiration in landscapes.
 Their subjects were traditional myths, legends
and folklore usually dealing with the
supernatural, grotesque, and less ordinary.
 Vocal music in this period require singers to perform
a greater range of tone color, dynamics and pitch.
 Opera became an important source of
musical expressions.
 The birth of the opera houses came.
COMPOSEftS OF
VOCAL MUSIC
ftOMANTIC
PEftIOD
Franz
Peter  The proper name for Franz Schubert
songs is lieder, which is the German
Schubert word for song.

 He is considered the last of the
classical composers and one of the
first romantic ones.
 His famous vocal music works/ Lieder
were: “Gretchen am Spinnrade”,
“Erlkonig”, “Ellens Gesang III” (“Ave
Maria”) and “Schwanenge sang” (“Swan
Song”).
 He also wrote piano pieces, string
quartets, operetta and the Symphony
No.8 in B minor (“Unfinished Symphony”)
Giuseppe Verdi  His first opera “Oberto” was performed
in La Scala, the most important opera
house at the time.
 His final opera ends with “All the
world’s a joke.”
 His famous works are La Traviata,
Rigoletto, Falstaff, Otello and Aida
were he wrote for the opening of the
Suez Canal.
 Expressive vocal melody is the soul of
a Verdi opera.
.
Giacomo  He belonged to a group of
Puccini composers who stressed
realism, therefore, he drew
material from everyday life,
rejecting heroic themes from
mythology and history.
 Puccini’s famous operas were:
“La Boheme”, “Tosca”, “Madame
Butterfly”, and “Turandot”.
Wilhelm Richard
 He was very much inspired
Wagner by Ludwig van Beethoven.
 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
Wilhelm ftichard  His famous works are;
Tristan and Isolde, Die
Wagner Walkure, Die Meistersinger,
Tannhauser and Parsifal.
 His work would later
influence modern film
scores, including those of the
Harry Potter and Lord of the
ftings film series.
 Wagner died of a heart attack
on February 13,1883 at age of
69.
Georges Bizet
 Bizet became famous for
his operas.
 His most famous opera
is “Carmen”.
ROMANTIC OPERA
ROMANTIC PERIOD
OPERA
■ It is a story (libretto) told by the composers through

music while using the words of the librettist. They
work closely together to tell the story.
■ The book that the composer and librettist put together
is called a score.
■ The score has all the musical notes, words and ideas
to help the performers tell the story.
COMPONENT
S OPERA
Components:
the texts of
an opera.
Librettist and the
Libretto composer work
closely together
to tell the story.
the book that the
Components: composer and
librettist put together.
has all the musical
notes, words and
ideas to help the
Score performers tell the
story.
Often, there are operas
with overtures,
preludes, prologues,
several acts, finales
and postludes.
 Declamatory singing,
Components: used in the prose parts
and dialogue of opera.
 Different roles in
operas are created
taking into account
different types of voices.
Recitative  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.
Components:
 Declamatory singing,
used in the prose parts
and dialogue of opera.
Aria  what the public will
remember best when
leaving the opera
house.
Components:
Main division
Acts of an opera
Components:
Setting or place
Scene
OTHEf
COMPONENTS
t
:
■ Duet, trio, and other
small
ensemble
■ Chorus
VOICE
CLASSIFICATION
S
For MALE
Tenor highest male

voice
Middle male voice,
Baritone lies between Bass
and Tenor voices. It
is the common male
voice.
Bass
lowest male voice
For
FEMALE
Soprano  highest female voice
 most common female

Mezzo voice; strong middle voice,
tone is darker or deeper
Soprano than the soprano
 lowest female voice and

Contralt most unique among
female
o
MUSICAL TERMS
one or more
A singers
Capella performing
without
instrumental
accompaniment
Cantabile Singing style
Capo Head, the
beginning
Coda Closing
section
appended to a
movement or
song
Dolce sweetl
y
A weaker and
Falsetto more airy
voice usually
in the higher
pitch ranges
Sliding quickly
Glissando between two
notes
Parts of
Passagio singing voice
where register
transition occur
Slight speeding
up or slowing
Rubato down of the
tempo of a
piece at the
discretion of
the soloist
Most
Tessitura comfortable
singing range
of a singer
ftapidly
Vibrato repeated
slight pitch
variation
during a
sustained note

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VOCAL MUSIC

Schubert word for song.

■ It is a story (libretto) told by the composers through

Tenor highest male

 most common female

 lowest female voice and

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