Personal Experience, Intuition, Spontaneous Emotions that Romantic Music Helped to Develop
Words: 533 Pages: 2 2562Romantic music emerged in the 18th century, emphasizing personal experience, intuition and spontaneous emotion. There are four principal ideals of Romanticism: individualism, love of nature, fascination with the supernatural and nationalism. Individualism pertains to distinguishing oneself from the masses. In the context of Musical Romanticism, individualism places emphasis on originality and distinctiveness; in other words, personal emotional expression. Essentially, Romanticism in music was of two kinds - romantic idealists and romantic realists. The idealists maintained that music must exist for […]