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Final Score Violins
About Music

12.

Romance and Revolution




In which all colour vanishes and magic mushrooms appear: revolution, then, Beethoven – music as heroic struggle – the romantic age of tragedy and loss – celebrity musicians – showmanship – great lovers – Schumann’s contraption – the search for transcendence turns inwards – programmatic music – Mendelssohn rescues Bach from oblivion.


Route Map 12: Romance and Revolution

Click on a topic for short summaries of this section and information about the walk itself.

Classical music
    Simple harmonic design

Beethoven

Romance


Music's raison d'etre - human or cosmic?


Link to Chapter Thirteen


Offa's Dyke: Llangollen to Llandegla
Over the moor, 9 m

Walk Date: Thursday, 18th September
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