Romantic Period
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Romantic Period
A New Step in Music Since the beginning of organized music in the Middle Ages,
like all the other fields of creativity and study, such as art, philosophy, and
architecture, music has made leaps and bounds in the flow of progression. The
Romantic period was a time when music began to take on a different meaning. The
music began to become more subjective as opposed to objective music of the
Classical period. The artist or composer became much more important as an
individual. An example of one of these progressions occurring mainly during the
Romantic period was when composers and audiences alike started turning towards
program music. Program music is “the term for a nonvocal music that is
associated with a poem, a story, or some other literary source; the literary
text itself is the program. This new style of music created waves of joy and of
controversy that still exist today. This form of music was first derived to
fulfill a greater need to cease creating and continuing boundaries in the
separate fields of art. Before this period music and paintings or in this case
music and literature were not meant to be intertwined. The people did not see a
need for it since each field was considered a separate entity of itself. Bent 2
During the romantic period, the general feeling began to surface that music
could be made even more expressive by channeling it through literature;
especially poetry. I believe a lot of this had to do with the new, relaxed frame
of thought for the time period, and the genius of William Shakespeare’s
writing capabilities. The issue surrounding program music is that critics
ridicule the idea that the music can actually illustrate a program. They ask the
question that if the audience did not know it was program music, then could they
identify it as so, once heard. Some say that it is entirely possible, and even
would be hard not to while others claim that there could quite possibly be no
clues to the fashion of program music. Another argument made by the critics of
program music is music should be able to stand on its own, with meaning,
feeling, and a general sense or purpose. With program music, they felt that the
music itself could not stand alone. However, the people of the Romantic period
did not care. They wanted program music to increase expressive capabilities, and
to be entertained in a new fashion. Many of the composers of this time, and
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