Week 2: Romantic Period

Medieval: ROMANESQUE (500-1400) Medieval: Gothic (1100-1430) Renaissance (1400-1600) Baroque (1600-1700) Classical (1730-1820) Romantic (1815-1910) 20th-century (1900-2000) Contemporary (1975-present) 21st-century (2000-present).
A. STYLE AND PERFORMANCE PRACTICE:

1. The Romantic composers believed that music could and should tell a story, intimate sounds of nature, or illustrate a scene aurally.
2. Solo songs enjoyed considerable attention during the Romantic era, as composers became involved with literary forms for their texts.
3. Musical form continued to be based on contrasting melodies in the homo phonic style, making the sonata the most important type of formal organization.