How Did Romantic Music Develop

Romantic music belongs to the movement known as Romanticism, which took place from 1780 to 1880. During this period, the composers changed the classical standards in order to increase expressive effects. Precise forms and clear contours were abandoned in favor of expanded or loosened forms, lyrical melodies, and lively shifts in metric and tempo. Romantic composer elevated the tone color, which means elevating the distinctive quality of musical sound made by a voice, a musical instrument or a combination of them to a status equal to melody, rhythm and harmony. The orchestra also changed, and they become five times larger than the ones used before. With this expansion, the variation of instruments