Romanticism in Music

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"This paper is a study of the romantic movement in music, which was at its height in European composition between approximately 1820 and 1890. A reaction to the emphasis of classicism on form, order, and rationality, romanticism explored passion, flamboyance, and individuality. From Ludwig van Beethoven's late compositions to the enormous scale of Richard Wagner's epic operas, romanticism represents the movement of music into the modern world. It nurtured development of the final stage of many of the elements that continue to define modern music, including an almost infinite variety of forms and lengths of composition, the importance of the conductor in performance, and the power of the individual artist's vision. Many of these changes were the result of artistic experimentation, both in form and content, by composers during..."

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