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.

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 ...

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 ...