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 ...

and Germany (1871), the Romantic period was one of both political upheaval and unforgettable musical brilliance. In this class, we will set out to identify the relationship between music and national ...

although the music is clearly in a minor key. The slow middle section boasts the long lyrical melodies that are associated with Frederic Chopin and the Romantic period.

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 ...

The male-female duet has long been a part of the pop music scene. But perhaps no era featured this type of song quite like the 1980s. It helped that many popular films of the era required just such a ...

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Today, Christmas music runs the gamut from silly to revolutionary. Songs range from grandmothers getting trampled by reindeer to those based on the work of a Romantic-period poet. Who knew that ...

The cycle will take place over a three-week period ... in Western music history. Though Beethoven is quite fittingly imagined to be the composer who bridged the Classical and Romantic periods ...