Romantic period.

Romantic period: Dissonance- clashy sounds Composers needed this to make music sound full of emotion. This was rule breaking in the classical period it was not allowed. batthoven was the first to experiment with dissonance music. Virtuoso: A performer who excels in technical ability. Lizt: He is a paino player who wrote pieces of music that were so hard only he could play them. Tone poems: A composer that looks at a beautifull painting whist reading a novel and using the music or novel to describe it. Programme music: An instrumental composition only no singing. Programme music can go on for quite long. It's used to describe another stimulus. Impressionism: It's a piece of music to describe how they were feeling and to make it sound not tangible. Romantic symphony: They latest from about 20-45 minutes, they didn't follow strict rules. They were more expressive. Changes in opera: They were dealing with every form of disaster, death or madness. It's enormous, massive amounts of brass instruments. Everything Inlarges up to seventy players in the orchestra. Schumann Mahler Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 - February 13, 1883) was a German opera composer and key figure in the development of late Romantic music. He stretched the tonal systems of his day, using chromaticism for dramatic effect. Wagner also introduced the concept of the leitmotiv in his operatic plot development, a recurring musical theme associated with a particular person, place, or idea.