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-[[Romanticism]]+'''Romantic Music''' is a [[musicological]] term referring to a particular period, theory, compositional practice, and canon in European music history, from about 1815 to 1910. It should be noted that "'''romantic music'''" and the [[polyseme]] phrase "'''Romantic music'''" have two essentially different meanings. The first, "romantic music," is commonly used to indicate any kind of music which supposedly expresses or encourages tender emotions of intimate personal attraction, attachment, or "love." Only a minor part of "romantic" music is "Romantic," and vice-versa.
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 +Romantic music as a movement refers to the expression and expansion of musical ideas established in earlier periods, such as the classical period. Romanticism does not necessarily apply to romantic love, but that theme was prevalent in many works composed during this time period. More appropriately, romanticism describes the expansion of formal structures within a composition, making the pieces more passionate and expressive. Because of the expansion of form (those elements pertaining to form, key, instrumentation and the likes) within a typical composition, it became easier to identify an artist based on the work. For example, Beethoven favored a smooth transition from the 3rd to 4th movement in his symphonies, and thus his pieces are more distinguishable. Overall, composers during this time expanded on formal ideas in a new and exciting way.
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 +The era of '''Romantic music''' is defined in this article as the period of [[Europe|European]] [[European classical music|classical music]] that runs roughly from [[1820]] to [[1910]], as well as music written according to the norms and styles of that period. The Romantic period was preceded by the [[Classical music era|classical period]], and was followed by the [[Modernism (music)|modernist period]].
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 +Romantic music is related to [[romanticism]] in [[literature]], [[visual arts]], and [[philosophy]], though the conventional time periods used in [[musicology]] are very different from their counterparts in the other arts, which define "romantic" as running from the [[1780s]] to the [[1840s]]. The Romantic movement held that not all truth could be deduced from [[axiom]]s, that there were inescapable realities in the world which could only be reached through emotion, feeling and intuition. Romantic music struggled to increase emotional expression and power to describe these deeper truths, while preserving or even extending the formal structures from the classical period.
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 +== See also ==
 +*[[Romanticism]]
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Romantic Music is a musicological term referring to a particular period, theory, compositional practice, and canon in European music history, from about 1815 to 1910. It should be noted that "romantic music" and the polyseme phrase "Romantic music" have two essentially different meanings. The first, "romantic music," is commonly used to indicate any kind of music which supposedly expresses or encourages tender emotions of intimate personal attraction, attachment, or "love." Only a minor part of "romantic" music is "Romantic," and vice-versa.

Romantic music as a movement refers to the expression and expansion of musical ideas established in earlier periods, such as the classical period. Romanticism does not necessarily apply to romantic love, but that theme was prevalent in many works composed during this time period. More appropriately, romanticism describes the expansion of formal structures within a composition, making the pieces more passionate and expressive. Because of the expansion of form (those elements pertaining to form, key, instrumentation and the likes) within a typical composition, it became easier to identify an artist based on the work. For example, Beethoven favored a smooth transition from the 3rd to 4th movement in his symphonies, and thus his pieces are more distinguishable. Overall, composers during this time expanded on formal ideas in a new and exciting way.

The era of Romantic music is defined in this article as the period of European classical music that runs roughly from 1820 to 1910, as well as music written according to the norms and styles of that period. The Romantic period was preceded by the classical period, and was followed by the modernist period.

Romantic music is related to romanticism in literature, visual arts, and philosophy, though the conventional time periods used in musicology are very different from their counterparts in the other arts, which define "romantic" as running from the 1780s to the 1840s. The Romantic movement held that not all truth could be deduced from axioms, that there were inescapable realities in the world which could only be reached through emotion, feeling and intuition. Romantic music struggled to increase emotional expression and power to describe these deeper truths, while preserving or even extending the formal structures from the classical period.

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