MUS 048 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Robert Schumann, Henry Fuseli, Erlking

• School: Hofstra University
• Department: Music (MUS)
• Course: MUS 048
• Professor: Professor Morrongiello

Document Summary

Baroque was adopted from field of art history by musicologists in the twentieth century. People became aware of music as major art. Quite natural for observers to link developments in music with parallel developments in literature. Fact illustrated in painting showing literary lions listening to liszt at piano. Expression shows how music moves them; experience is different from casual enjoyment of 18th-century listeners. Also shows how important beethoven was bringing change. England, great age of poetry: wordsworth, coleridge, shelly, keats, and byron. Germany, tieck, novalis, kleist, h lderlin, and e. t. a. hoffmann. Word romantic now refers to love; derives from literary movement. Glorification of love was one of many themes in literature, themes also central to. Striving for better, higher, ideal state of being was at heart of romantic movement. Everyday life was dull, meaningless; transcended only through free will and passion. Rule of unconstrained feeling (from convention, religion, social taboo (also other people"s feelings)) became highest good.