MUSIC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Chromatic Scale, Robert Schumann, Chromaticism
26 Dec 2015
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Romanticism starts with literature, but music then becomes the most important art form. Striving for a better ideal state of being was at the heart of. Romanticism: belief that every day life was dull and meaningless. It could only be transcended through the free exercise of individual passion. Emotional expression became the highest artistic goal. Rousseau provided the romantics with the ideal of individual and political freedom and fulfilment. Artists resisted all rules and regulations of composing they distrusted abstract notions of beauty and rules of. Decorum that they felt might hamper their spontaneity. In music, composers worked to break down barriers of harmony and form: composers explored chords or chord progressions that had previously been forbidden. Romantic music emphasizes the interpretation of a composer"s work, not changing it. In this time, improvisation was highly frowned upon: rubato, era of the conductor. For the first time, interpreters, or performers, became just as important as composers.
