3rd Quarter Lesson #1 MAPEH For Today's Learner 9 Program and Piano Music

1. Program and
Piano Music
Music 9 Lesson #1

2. Program Music
•19th century
•Sources outside music
•Encounter with nature
•Instrumental music
• Moods, emotions, aspects of love

3. •It tells a story without words
•Written for piano or orchestra

4. Four Main Forms of
Orchestral Program Music
1. Program Symphony
 numerous movements
Symphony with program
Descriptive title

5. 1. Reveries, Passions
2. A Ball
3. Scene in the Country
4. March to the Scaffold
5. Dream of a Witches’ Sabbath
Symphonie Fantastique
by Hector Berlioz

6. 2. Concert Overture
 1 movement – sonata form
Opera overture
Independent composition

7. 3. Symphonic Poem
 Tone poem
For orchestra (1 movement)
Written in many forms
Invented by Franz Liszt
Expression for nationalism
Les Prelude – Franz Liszt
Till Eulenspiegel – Richard Strauss

8. 4. Incidental Music
 intended to accompany the action
or mood of a dramatic stage
performance.
 important moments.
Mendelssohn’s “Wedding March”
 Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s
Dream”

9. Piano Music
•Popularity in piano
•Piano performer is also the
composer
•Mozart and Beethoven

10. Chopin
“Poet of the piano”
Nocturne
Night song
A kind of serenade
Nocturne in E-flat Major, Op. 9
Impromptu
Extemporaneous character

11. Prelude
Short mood piece
Chopin’s Prelude in C Minor
Minuet
Slender or small
Very small dance steps
Three-four time
Accompanies dances

12. Scherzo
Joke
Etude
Study
Exercise
Piano studies

13. Mazurka and Polonaise
Stylized dance pieces
Based on Polish
Suite
Sonata de camera
Series of dance movements