Characteristics often attributed to Romanticism, including musical
Romanticism, are (Kravitt 1992, 93–94, 107):
• a new preoccupation
with and surrender to Nature
• a fascination with
the past, particularly the Middle Ages and legends of medieval chivalry
• a turn towards the
mystic and supernatural, both religious and merely spooky
• a longing for the
infinite
• mysterious
connotations of remoteness, the unusual and fabulous, the strange and surprising
• a focus on the
nocturnal, the ghostly, the frightful, and terrifying
• fantastic seeing and
spiritual experiences
• a new attention given
to national identity
• emphasis on extreme
subjectivism
• interest in the
autobiographical
• discontent with
musical formulas and conventions
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