• Students will learn the dates of the Romantic period (1825 - 1900).

• Students will learn a variety of musical characteristics common in Romantic music:

*Great variety of tone colour
*Long lyrical melodies
*Chromaticism
*Rubato (freedom)
*Harmonic colour
*Expression
*Emotion
*Exploitation of dynamics

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_music
• http://www.classicalscore.com/romanticstyle.htm
• http://www.shoshone.k12.id.us/romantic/music.