Chapter eight Romanticism Music

I. Romanticism in music
Romanticism were originally the stories writen in Roman. Further, it pointed saga novel or knight's story.Later it included romantic novel.Romanticism's rise in art was first found in the literatures of the 18th century.Those literatures incisively and vividly showed all individual feeling,gusto and aptness. Romanticism composers intensively impressed their own foibles, which was against the grain with classicism. Classicism music was obvious like lines, but romanticism laid particular stress on color and feeling and contained many fancied factors. Whereas it was just in principle.It was not easy to draw a entirely different sideline among different styles of music according to musicologists' mind which stressed on consecution, for example, between romanticism and classicism. It won't do to give some definitions simply. Those definitions often were simple too much because of neglecting many important factors. For example,be it that affirm classicism music is external and romanticism music is subjective,it means Haidun,Mazata and Beethoven were like a computer which never produced literature showing its own feeling,which is absurd too much. But there were obvious differences between classicism music and romanticism music. Most differences rooted from the reasons which were not music. Composers' position had taken place essentially in romanticism period.They were no longer employees in a city, in a royal court or church.Beethoven only won a part of independence because most of his sustenance still held under aegis of noblemen.But now ,theoretically speaking,composer was completely his owner himself. In fact, they were servants of the mass. For the mass' needs,all kinds of music combos and music festival net developed rapidly.If a composer,such as Dersoon, could supply musics which number of middle class cared for, then he was successful. On the contrary, if he neglected taste of era,then he was a peculiar and queer artist. This kind of composers thought they were peerless and outstanding and they were predictors in intending music.

II.Origion of romanticism music
The early romanticism music came of European illuminative period and French Revolution, which was the same as other arts.Beethoven's late works already became the herald of the early romanticism.After Beethoven,all composers belonged to romanticism genre.The middle 19th century was a floruit of romanticism.

III.Historical position of romanticism music
Romanticism music's position went without saying,not only did many great musicians appear but also music types of literature were extensive. At that time notturno,artistic song,ballade,symphonic poem and so on came forth and it was a mine in history of art. Romanticism music also was a bridge.