Romantic music

Here you are the activities for this unit with their related videos. Let's work and remember, good comments are awarded with gold stars  ;-)

I also hope you enjoy the music.




Activity 2.- With the help of the information above and these two listenings, fill in the chart below: 

A) Beethoven Moonlight sonata (First movement)


B) Beethoven’s 5th symphony (First movement)



Activity 6.- Compare these pieces of music writing the adjectives that best suit them:

A) Franz Liszt - Mephisto Waltz:


B) Frédéric Chopin -Nocturne:


C) Robert Schumann - Rêverie:


Activity 7.- Listen to Asturias by Isaac Albeniz both for piano and guitar and say which version you prefer. Listen to Andaluza by Enrique Granados.
A) Do you think they have a Spanish character? Why? B) How can you describe them?





Activity 9.- Analyze two of these symphonic poems with the information from the following pages.

Dukas: The sorcerer’s apprentice


Grieg: Peer Gynt



Smetana: The Moldau (from the work Ma Vlast: My land)


Rimsky Korsakov: Sheherazade



Activity 10.- The lied Erlkönig (The king of the elves) describes the galloping of the horse in the stormy night. The poem is by Goethe. Explain how the music describes the text:




Activity 11.- Explain two of the excerpts with the help of the information from the following pages: What the opera is about, its language and what is happening in the excerpt. The name of the character/s and the type/s of voice/s that appear in that excerpt.

- Verdi: The toast from La Traviata


- Verdi: La donna e mobile from Rigoletto (Sung by Luciano Pavarotti)


- Puccini: Nessum dorma from Turandot (Sung by Placido Domingo)


- Puccini: O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schichi (Sung by Anne Netrebko)


- Bizet: L’amour est un oiseau rebelle from Carmen. (Sung by Teresa Berganza)


- Wagner: Ride of the Walkyries from Die Walküre


- Chueca: Tango de la Menegilda from La Gran Vía


- Bretón: ¿Dónde vas con mantón de Manila? from La verbena de la Paloma