Welcome to episode 37 of that classical podcast this time the romantic period.

Hello.

Hello. My name's Chris Bland.

My name's Kelly Harlock and you're listening to episode 37 of that classical podcast.

Welcome to all of you. Today we're going to be talking about romantic music with a capital R. what the hell does that mean so we're not talking

sexy sexy love time music sadly no sadly no although I guess there is some of that in there

could be it's not crazy to you. But why romantic? Why are we calling it romantic? Well, I'll tell you.

So it's based on medieval romance stories basically. So we're talking legendary tales about King Arthur and Charlemagne and other people like that.

Yeah, good stuff. So it connotes something sort of very distant and legendary and fantastical

basically removed from the Hendrum or the everyday or the actual real world and that's why we call it romantic

So in terms of dates we're talking around early 1800s maybe like 18 1820, all the way through to the beginning of the

20th century up to, when would you say like 1920?

I read that it was 1920, like 1920 is super late, like the last last year your potatoes are planted by then.

No more after that but yeah usually sort of as with all artistic movements the beginning

and the ends are a little bit fuzzy and wishy washy washy. So a lot of people say that Beethoven, our

pal beethoven, is the first romantic composer that he was sort of like cross over between classical

and romantic so a little bit wavy don't really know

exactly where to fit him in right and today we will indeed be discussing some

wishy-washy romantic composers as well as the proper ones in skomst in there.

By wishy-washy you mean that overlap.

Right, yeah, sorry, sorry.

Yeah, got it.

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