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AOS1 piano music of Chopin and Schumann - Coggle Diagram
AOS1 piano music of Chopin and Schumann
characteristics of Romanticism
melody rules
virtuosity veruc simple elegance
programmatic storytelling in sound
nationalism (simple dance structures, decorative folk melodies, modality)
expressive, emotional, characterful
Romantic minature
a piece for piano, sometimes part of a collection of pieces
sometimes abstract, programmatic, or hidden messages
Chopin
Robert Schumann
Felix Mendelssohn
Dynamics
range to relfect the emotion expressed in the music
Rhythm, tempo, metre
rhythm - varied and immensely complex (tuplets, crossrhythm)
tempo - varies with the use of rubato, marked tempo changes sometimes occur within a piece
metre - tends to stay the same throughout a movement
Texture
melody and accompnaiment
anything goes
Melody
prominent, lyrical, expressiver
ranging from the song-like to the chromatic and highly decorated
Harmony
varied, from functional to highly chromatic
dissonance, compound chords
cadences still common but some phrases are left unresolved
Tonality
use of major/ minor keys
modality relfects folk influence
modulation to releated and unreleated keys