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Beginning of romanticism
Romanticism is the 19th century movement that developed in Europe in response to the Industrial revolution and the disillusionment of the Enlightenment values of reason. Romanticism emerged after the 1789, the year of the French Revolution that caused a relevant social change in Europe. -
Romantic music
Musical Romanticism was marked by emphasis on originality and individuality, personal emotional expression, and freedom and experimentation of form.
The Main Characteristics of Romantic Music
Freedom of form and design. ...
Song-like melodies (lyrical), as well as many chromatic harmonies and discords.
Dramatic contrasts of dynamics and pitch.
Big orchestras, due mainly to brass and the invention of the valve. -
Political events that affected romanticism
Romanticism and revolutions were very much interconnected: Romantic poets were greatly influenced by the French and American revolutions, and these political uprisings were very much the driving force of change in the literary landscape. This is most evidently seen through both Shelley's and Byron's work. -
The harmonica
The harmonica or "mouth organ" or "harp" as we know it today dates back only to 19th century Germany. In 1822 an inventor and musician from Berlin named Christian Bauschmann made an experimental instrument with fifteen reeds called the aura, designed mainly as a pitch pipe. -
Slave brought to free states 1850
The September 18, 1850, Fugitive Slave Act provides for the return of slaves brought to free states. Millard Fillmore is sworn into office as the 13th President of the United States, following Zachary Taylor's death on July 9, 1850. "America" wins the first America's Cup yacht race on August 22, 1851. -
Art Spoliarium
The work "Spoliarium" is a painting by the Spanish Juan Luna. Oil on paper 400×700 cm. It was first exhibited at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1884, winning a first class medal in it. In 1886, it was sold to the Barcelona Provincial Council for 20,000 pesetas. -
Political romanticism
Political Romanticism is a historical study that, like all of Schmitt's major works, offers a fundamental political critique. In it, he defends a concept of political action based on notions of good and evil, justice and injustice, and attacks the political passivity entailed by the romanticization of experience. -
End of romanticism
A fundamental stage was the nineties of the eighteenth century (First Romanticism), but the last manifestations reach until the middle of the nineteenth century.