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The Romantic period in music saw a dramatic change in style from the Classical period, starting in the early 19th century. This period is known for more passionate, emotional music that expressed feelings. It brought many innovations like the expansion of orchestras, new genres such as art songs and program symphonies, and the development of instruments including new woodwinds, brass utilizing valves, and many percussion instruments. Many famous composers like those still well known today came from the Romantic period.

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The Romantic period in music saw a dramatic change in style from the Classical period, starting in the early 19th century. This period is known for more passionate, emotional music that expressed feelings. It brought many innovations like the expansion of orchestras, new genres such as art songs and program symphonies, and the development of instruments including new woodwinds, brass utilizing valves, and many percussion instruments. Many famous composers like those still well known today came from the Romantic period.

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Music Research

Research on the Romantic Period of Music.

Kyra Lee Morphet 3/11/2011

The Romantic Era wasnt just known for its dramatic change for the style of music but also for the dramatic change in any of the arts (Drama, Music, Art and even for the change in the style of literature.) It started around about the start of the 19th century but there are many disputes to the exact year of the change because it was quite a smooth change between the Classical and Romantic Period. It then led the way for the modern/ contemporary period in the late 19th to the early 20th century. It was named the Romantic Period because of its more passionate feel. Audiences in the 19th century felt this sort of music held more expression and feelings. So it was not named to refer to romance as in love. Romanticism basically was referring to the variety of expressions and feeling in the music or paintings. It also didnt have the feelings of structure or formality which the earlier Baroque and Classical Era had which made it more interesting to their audiences. It also brought orchestras out of the dining rooms and into the concert halls and theatres. The Romantic also brought new musical works like an art song (a romantic poem with voice and piano.) The piano music brought stylised music like a waltz, mazurka, polonaise, etude. Rhapsodies. Other kinds included a program symphony, concert overtures,symphonic poems, symphonic variations and symphonic suites.. Most composers that are commonly well known to us today are from the romantic period and they have composed some fairly iconic pieces.

The romantic period also brought changes in the woodwind, brass and percussion sections of the orchestra.

Woodwind. Brought 2 or more bassoons, oboes, flutes and clarinets. It also brought contrabassoon, bass clarinet and the english horn. Brass. This section began to utilise valves which gave them a bigger range and made them more useful to composers and is usually heard quite a lot in the romantic orchestral pieces. Percussion. Many new percussion instruments came like the side and bass drum, xylophones, celestas, gongs, cymbals, castanets, harps, bells, triangle and chimes. So as this research proves the romantic period could be known as an evolution in the arts considering all of the massive changes Resource List
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_music http://www.ipl.org/div/mushist/rom/ http://www.mostlywind.co.uk/romantic.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Romantic_composers http://library.thinkquest.org/15413/history/history-rom-inst.htm

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