The romantic period (1850-1920)
 Virtuoso: A performer that excels in technical ability. Liszt was a master composer and piano player that at his time was composing music that only he could play.

 Dissonance: Clashy sounds which composers needed to form tension within music, this was considered against the rules of classical Music but romantic period composers felt they needed the sound.

 Tone poems: Taking a beautiful picture and turning that into a musical piece. Programme music: Often from a a price of writing a composer would take into into a piece of music, was an instrumental only price.
 Impressionism: Crates a piece of music to describe feelings but doesn't describe something tangible.

 Romantic symphony: Lasted 20-45 mins. Didn't follow strict rules on how they were supposed to move or sound. Most symphony's had more than 4 movements. Much larger orchestras with more expressive using harmonisation, rhythmic patterns and dynamics. Changes in opera: Lasted very long sometimes 3 hours. Dealt with every form of disaster and gods fighting was theatrical and enormous sounds. Lots of brass instruments.

Here are some examples of romantic period composers:


Here is an example of Schubert: