Romanticism

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This paper reviews and discusses romanticism. The paper takes a look at the art, music and poetry that emerged during the romantic era. The paper describes its history, the main elements of romanticism and how it differed in different countries. The paper then goes on to discuss political romanticism.

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"The romantic musicians found their muse of inspiration in literary works, paintings, and other art sources. Therefore, they believed in the same art values, like freedom of form, peculiar vibration of feelings, impulsive reactions, uniqueness, etc. As literary works reveal solitary characters to bear the imprint of emotional experience, music reveals instruments that have exactly the same role as characters in literature. They create the emotional values. The French composer Hector Berlioz and the Hungarian musician Franz Liszt had the roots of their inspiration in literature. Plenty of music works were created in the 19th century. The most known and successful ones are written by Schubert, Johannes Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Robert Schumann, and Richard Strauss. Abstract music was expressed in chamber music and symphonies. In this respect, there are plenty of composers who may be given as example. Musicians like Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky were the most important as they tried new free form music, adapted for the piano, mostly."

Sample of Sources Used:

• McGann, Jerome (1985). The Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
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• Meyer H. Abrams. The Mirror and the Lamp : Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition, Oxford University press, 1971
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