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Features include:

Features include:

*The heyday of German “lied” (song). [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]], [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]], [[Schumann]], [[Brahms]] and [[Hugo Wolf]] head the list of composers that still fill recital halls today.

*The heyday of German “lied” (song). [[Franz Schubert|Schubert]], [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]], [[Schumann]], [[Brahms]] and [[Hugo Wolf]] head the list of composers that still fill recital halls today.

*The rise of the [[song cycle]]. Whilst the performance of a set of songs of the same style and theme sung together, had been known since the 17th century, the onset of the romantic era and the popularity of song brought about a flowering of this form. The three great cycles of [[Schubert]] and the two of [[Schumann]] are particularly notable.

*The rise of the [[song cycle]]. Whilst the performance of a set of songs of the same style and theme sung together, had been known since the 17th century, the onset of the romantic era and the popularity of song brought about a flowering of this form. The three great cycles of Schubert and the two of Schumann are particularly notable.

*The symphonic poem – or tone poem – made use of the new freedom from adherence to form to paint a musical picture or tell a story.  

*The symphonic poem – or tone poem – made use of the new freedom from adherence to form to paint a musical picture or tell a story.  

* The concert overture became an entity outside the drama stage. (There is blurring here between the concert overture and the tone poem – often it is depends on what the composer called it. Example: [[Mendelssohn]] wrote his overture to “[[''A Midsummer Night’s Dream'']]” as a concert overture many years before he was commissioned to write incidental music for the play. It is a tone poem – listen to the constant fluttering of fairy wings. Mendelssohn wrote the “''Hebrides'' Overture” after a tour of Scotland. Also known as “''Fingal’s Cave''”, it is one of the great musical depictions of the sea.)

* The concert overture became an entity outside the drama stage. (There is blurring here between the concert overture and the tone poem – often it is depends on what the composer called it. Example: [[Mendelssohn]] wrote his overture to “[[''A Midsummer Night’s Dream'']]” as a concert overture many years before he was commissioned to write incidental music for the play. It is a tone poem – listen to the constant fluttering of fairy wings. Mendelssohn wrote the “''Hebrides'' Overture” after a tour of Scotland. Also known as “''Fingal’s Cave''”, it is one of the great musical depictions of the sea.)