Twelve authors probe the mind of the Romantic era in its thinking about music. They provide a searching examination of writings by music theorists, critics, aestheticians, philosophers, and ...

The Romantic period started around 1830 and ended around 1900, as compositions became increasingly expressive and inventive. Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and ...

Composers added chromatic notes to their chords and melodies to make their music more expressive. In the slow movement of Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, the opening flute melody ...

From failed revolutions in Hungary, France, and Austria (1848) to the formal establishment of Italy (1861) and Germany (1871), the Romantic period was one of both political upheaval and unforgettable ...

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The interrelationship between music and literature reached its zenith during the Romantic era, and nowhere was this relationship more ...

MUSA 2201 Medieval-Renaissance Music MUSA 2203 Music of the Baroque MUSA 2205 Music of the Classic Period MUSA 2207 Music of the Romantic Era * With the permission of the director of undergraduate ...