6 describes countryside scenes. As well as symphonies, the tone poem and descriptive overture were popular as pieces of stand-alone orchestral music that evoked anything from a painting or poem to a ...

Composers added chromatic notes to their chords and melodies to make their music more expressive ... extra notes – through adding thirds on top of the seventh, ninth, eleventh, thirteenth ...

Romantic music developed directly from the classical period. There is no clear date ... Nature was a particularly popular subject. For example Mendelssohn's "Hebrides Overture" was inspired ...