Romantic Period

Programme Music Programme music is a piece of music for instruments which describes something or tells a story. People only thought a story could be told through song and not just thorugh instrument. Instrumental only piece. Dissonance Clashing sounds. Notes from outside the key being used. Composers needed this to make music song full of emotion. Rule braking, it was not aloud in the classical period. Virtuoso A performer that excels in technical ability. Liszt wrote pieces of music for piano that only he could play at the time. Tone poems Take a non musical source and turn it into music. Such as looking at a painting and writing a song about what they see. Instrumental only piece. Impressionism Impressionist composers using music to show feeling. Romantic symphony Lasted from about 20 to 40 minutes. Didnt have to follow strict rules that classical symphonies had to. More movements than classical period. Much larger orchestras, more expressive using harmonisation, rhythmic patterns and dynamics. Changes in opera Can go on for hours. They were dealing with every form of drama. Enormous orchestra. Lots of brass instruments. Wagner Liszt Schumann Mahler ******