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[Highlighted & annotated extract from ‘The History of Western Music’ ‘THE ROMANTIC PERIOD’ ‘Establishment of the Romantic idiom’ ‘Stylistic traits’]

‘The Romantic abhorrence of formalism has frequently been exaggerated for the purpose of distinguishing between Classical and Romantic attitudes.... Musical coherence demands a judicious balance of unity and variety, so most compositions of the 19^th century are still fairly clear-cut dectional, variational, or developmental forms.... Instrumental colour and variety, as another aspect of expressiveness, was made possible by a greatly enlarged orchestra and figured prominently in the new sound ideal.’

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*[Encyclopaedia Britannica 24: 560]

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