Romantic Music Ca

ROMANTIC MUSIC ca.1820-1910 The Romantic era was a period of great change. While the Classical era had strict laws of balance and restraint, the Romantic era moved away from that by allowing artistic freedom, experimentation, and creativity. The music tends to be very passionate with huge great climaxes and extremes of emotion through use of contrasting dynamics and chromatic harmonies. The harmony becomes more complex and writing can be either polyphonic or homophonic, but is mainly homophonic. Scales included chromatic and whole tone in Romantic music. The orchestra becomes very large and a wide range of percussion is used. There are smaller scale works such as the piano works of Chopin. Music reaches a new height with virtuoso performers. Composers became Nationalistic and included folk music in their pieces. Ensembles: Symphonic poem, Tone poem (also called Programme Music), Sonata, Concerto, Lied (German song ), Requiem Mass. Composers: Tchaikowsky, Chopin and Liszt (piano), Wagner and Puccini (opera).