Romance (music)

A romance (Italian romanza, German Romanze) is a broadly-applied label for lyrical musical pieces, especially common during the late classical period and romantic period. The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that "generally it implies a specially personal or tender quality. Mozart subtitled the second movement of his piano concerto no. 20 in D minor (K.466) "Romanze" and his Horn Concerto has a romanze and Rondo. Robert Schumann was particularly fond of the title for lyrical piano pieces.

Related Topics:
Classical period - Romantic period - Mozart - Robert Schumann

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Some music bearing the title "Romance":

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• Beethoven's two Romanze for violin and orchestra, no. 1 G-dur, Op. 40, no. 2 in F-dur, Op. 50 takes the form of a loose theme and variations
• Antonín Dvořák
• Clara Schumann's Drei Romanze for violin and piano, 1853 http://www.ambache.co.uk/wSchumann.htm#Violin%20Romances