Composers added chromatic notes to their chords and melodies to make their music more expressive. In the slow movement of Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, the opening flute melody ...

The Romantic period started around 1830 and ended around 1900, as compositions became increasingly expressive and inventive. Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and ...

although the music is clearly in a minor key. The slow middle section boasts the long lyrical melodies that are associated with Frederic Chopin and the Romantic period.

Check if you have access via personal or institutional login The interrelationship between music and literature reached its zenith during the Romantic era, and nowhere was this relationship more ...

A mystery of a waltz that was previously founded by curator of the New York Robinson McClellan in 2019 has been finally ...