Romantic music

music of the Romantic period

piece of orchestral music in a single continuous section

right|thumb|Franz Schubert's early masterpiece [[Gretchen am Spinnrade, which he wrote at age 17 to verse by Goethe, is one of the earlier of his lieder that is widely performed today.]] In the Western classical music tradition, '''''' ( , ; , ; ) is a term for setting poetry to music. The term is used for any kind of song in German, but among English speakers, is often used interchangeably with "art song" to encompass works that the tradition has inspired in other languages as well. The poems that have been made into lieder often center on pastoral themes or themes of romantic love.

In music, an intermezzo (, , plural form: intermezzi), in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work. In music history, the term has had several different usages, which fit into two general categories: the opera intermezzo and the instrumental intermezzo.

musical composition for organ based on a chorale melody

Hungarian violinist and composer (1828–1898)

German music movement in the second half of the 19th century

use of musical ideas or motifs that are identified with a specific country, region, or ethnicity

musical setting of a literary ballad; poetic and musical genre in the 18th and 19th centuries, popular with the Romantics and their later epigones

musical composition

guitar of the Classical and Romantic period

feud between popular musicians of the late 19th century regarding musical conservativeness

19th-century debate among Russian composers