A tendency to construct more periodic rhythmic units and a clearly articulated rhythmic flow. Classical composers fashioned a more songlike, simpler, and more periodic melody in contrast to the convoluted, intertwining multiple melodic strands of the Baroque.
Rowell explains that the Romantic composers expanded the dynamic and expressive dimensions of music and made increased use of the potential for chromaticism and ambiguity inherent in the system of tonal harmony, but theirs was a reaction more in manner and degree than in actual substance. Interestingly enough he goes on to assert that many scholars believe that Classicism and Romanticism are two phases of the same period: a stable, objective phase followed by a more dynamic, subjective phase - a rhythm of stability and instability that seems to repeat itself in the development of European musical style. .
Frederick Artz defines the Romantic movement, He believes Romanticism thus represented the reaction of emotion against reason, of nature against artificiality of simplicity against the complex, and of faith against skepticism It was not a philosophy but a sort of emotional religion, as nebulous as it was ardent. It penetrated sensitively into the psyche, into dreams and longings, into the unconscious and the mysterious, into those regions in which men sense intuitively rather than know by reasoning, The poet becomes a seer; he is wiser than he knows. His art is divinely inspired, Artist are a higher caste, not .
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After listening to the 1st movement of Beethoven's 8th symphony, it seems that it follows the formal outline of the classical period symphony, but filled with a powerful force only Beethoven can create. This piece seems to be a regression back to a more Classical style compared to his preceding symphonies which tend to be more Romantic.