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Musical Ideas that Romantic Composers strive for: First, Romanticism is a cultural movement that stressed emotion, imagination, and individualism. This period was in direct result of a rebellion against neoclassicism, and the age of reason. Romantic writers broke away from conventional styles, coveting the freedom of expression, as painters preferred more dynamic motions than balanced poses. It appeared everything in the Romantic period was aimed at emotional subjectivity, including personal emotions while exploring the psychological aspects of the fantastical world, including the unconscious, the irrational, and the world of dreams. With this came an enthusiasm for nature as well. When it came to music though, the aims and ideals of Romantic composers covered the individuality of style, expressive aims and subjects, nationalism and exotisicism, program music, expressive tone color and colorful harmony, large ranges of dynamic, pitch and tempo, while also shifting from miniature to monumental compositions. With all of these factors, it is very suitable to draw comparisons between Romantic music and American music, especially Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band. There were various musical ideals to which composers were striving for during the Romantic period. One of the main ones concerned the individuality of style. Each composer felt as though their music needed to in some way reflect their very own personalities, their “innermost feelings,” stated Tchailovsky. Other composers such as Schumann and Chopin, who respectively composed Carnaval and Nocturne, followed such emotional patterns that can be evidently seen in modern American music as well. In actuality, many parallels can be drawn between Chopin’s Nocturne and Bruce Springsteen’s most recent album, from 2002, “The Rising.” The Nocturne, or nigh piece, is a slow, lyrical, intimate composition for the piano. As with other popular pieces during the Romanic period, Chopin designed the Nocturne in such a way that it goes on an emotional roller coaster ride.
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