Music that is Romantic
Date Submitted: 04/03/2000 00:53:22
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Music
Length: 3 pages (860 words)
Category: / Arts & Humanities / Music
Length: 3 pages (860 words)
ROMANTIC MUSIC (The Arts)
The ideals of instrumental music
At one point in the study of the Romantic period of music, we come upon
the first of several apparently opposing conditions that plague all attempts
to grasp
the meaning of Romantic as applied to the music of the 19th century. This
opposition involved the relation between music and words. If instrumental
music
is the perfect Romantic art, why is it acknowledged that the great masters …
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…ideas of Romantic music
in
these words:
'Music embodies feeling without forcing it - as it is forced in its
other manifestations, in most arts and especially in the art of
words - to contend and
combine with thought....it is the embodied and intelligent essence of
feeling;
capable of being apprehended by our senses, it permeates them like a dart,
like a
ray, like a dew, like a spirit, and fills our soul.'
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