Unit I: Classical and Romantic- A Comparison

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A. Issues

1. Control, Rules, Structure vs. Freedom, Experimentation, Meaning
2. Surface Meaning vs Depth
3. Conscious vs Unconscious (subconscious)
4. Right Brain vs Left Brain
5. Aesthetics of “Delight and Instruct” vs “Insights to the Mind and Heart”
6. Passion and Emotion vs Objectivity

B. Literature

1. Pope- Excerpts from "Essay in Criticism"
2. Wordsworth Poems
      Tables Turned
      We are Seven
      Lines Written in Early Spring
3. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads- Wordsworth

C. Aesthetic Criticism

1. Describe
2. Analyze
3. Characterize
4. Interpret

Supplement: Aesthetics- 1997 Grolier Interactive

D. Music
"My music is, throughout and always, but a sound of nature."
-- Gustav Mahler

1. Theory of Expectation
a. Barber- Adagio, Ives- Syphony # 3, Mozart- Sonata

2. Tools of music expression, musical language Musical Elements

a. Form
b. Texture
c. Ensemble
d. Meter
e. Theme (motif, phrase, conjunct, disjunct, direction, articulation, symmetry)
f. Tone (timbre, dynamics, pulse)
g. Harmony (consonant, dissonant, simple, complex)
h. Tension and release, contrast

Supplemental: "The Romantic Movemen"”- Music, Politoske pp 252-264.

4. Listening Composer Archive

a. Mozart Piano Sonata
b. Chopin Nocturne
c. Mozart g minor Symphony
d. Brahms- Symphony #3

D. Art
1.Principles of Design- Composition

a. Unity
b. Balance
c. Contrast
d. Focus
e. Movement
f. Rhythm
g. Pattern

2. Elements of Design

a. Line
b. Shape
c. Space
d. Texture
e. Color
f. Value

3. Works not linked are found on CD Rom Microsoft Art Gallery "The Collection of the National Gallery, London available from Dr. Eaton or the Media Center.

Neo-Classicism/Romantic Art a survey

18thc. France- Enlightenment

18thc.-19th c. Fr. Tour

Romantic/Realist Tour

a. Cuyp- Landscape with cows

b.Courbet- Beach in Normandy

c.Velazquez (1599-1660) Christ on the Cross

d. Delacroix (1798-1863)- Christ on the Cross

e.Ingres- Madame Moitessier

f.Devis-Holdsworth in Conversation

Goya- The Forge

h .Giordano- Forge of Vulcan

i.David-Death of Socrates

j.Delacroix- The Death of Sardanapal

K. Poussin (1637) Rape of the Sabine Women

L. Delacroix The Crusaders

M. Ingres- The Bather

N. Velazquez- Maids of Honor

 

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